New USBC Roll 'N Grow membership for kids age 7 and under
Children age 7 and under now have a USBC membership designed specifically for them. The new USBC Roll 'N Grow membership, which will be available starting Aug. 1, 2011, provides benefits for young bowlers in regular or bumper leagues of any duration at an affordable price.

The new Roll 'N Grow membership is $8 and has no restriction on league duration. The benefits include a USBC Youth Membership card, league award emblems, USBC Special Achievement Awards, a DVD of the cartoon series Bowlopolis and much more.

Click here to read more about the Roll 'N Grow membership.

New program to teach volunteers how to coach young bowlers  
The International Bowling Campus (IBC) Youth Development team will facilitate dozens of coaching seminars across the nation later this year designed to teach parents and volunteers basic bowling coaching skills. The seminars are part of a YES Fund initiative to develop a new mainstream competition model for youth bowling.

The seminars will be open to volunteers from Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) member centers or USBC associations at no cost. Up to three volunteers may represent each center at a coaching seminar. The seminars will feature some of the most respected coaches in the world and are designed for people from all knowledge bases, including volunteers with little or no experience teaching kids bowling.

The clinics will be called USA Bowling Teaching Kids Instructional Seminars and will be offered in more than 40 locations starting in August and continuing through October. The seminar curriculum will focus exclusively on how to teach children on the lanes.

To read more on this coaching development, please click here.

SMART Scholarships Fund releases independent audit and quarterly statement 
Directors of the SMART Bowling Scholarship Funding Corporation released new financial reports demonstrating stability and a record asset base for the program dedicated to protecting youth scholarship monies.

The SMART Corporation is a financially and legally independent entity formed last year by USBC. In an effort to provide greater transparency, the SMART Board plans to publish quarterly statements for the SMART Fund. The first statement as of April 30 shows SMART with greater assets than liabilities.

The SMART program continues to be the only bowling scholarship management program providing full protection of a student-athlete's eligibility status. The financial statements can be found at BOWL.com/smart.

The latest edition of US Bowler is now available online
The monthly edition of the online magazine US Bowler is now available at BOWL.com or by clicking here. In this issue you will find great features, helpful tips and news from the world of bowling including:

Minnesota bowler wins second spot in Team USA Fantasy Camp Contest 
Chuck Hayslett of Apple Valley, Minn., is the second USBC Sport Bowling member to win an expenses-paid trip to the International Training and Research Center in the Team USA Fantasy Camp contest.

This year, a total of six winners will receive trips to the ITRC where they will train with Team USA coaches and then take on six members of Team USA in a special competition broadcast live on BOWL.com. The Team USA Fantasy Camp contest is open to any USBC Sport Bowling member who bowls a 200 game or higher in their USBC Sport Bowling certified league.

To learn more about the Team USA Fantasy Camp contest, please click here.

Star of Tomorrow heads Dexter/USBC All-American Team  
Nicole Mosesso, the Alberta E. Crowe Star of Tomorrow Award winner, leads the list of 10 high school bowlers selected for the 2010-11 Dexter/USBC High School All-American Team.

Mosesso is one of four seniors selected to this year's team, which has no returning members for the first time since the inaugural class of 2005-06. Only one freshman, Sydney Brummett of Fort Wayne, Ind., was selected to the team. Three team members were individual state high school champions this season.

To read about the members of this year's Dexter/USBC High School All-American Team, please click here.

12 USBC Youth bowlers to receive Gift For Life Scholarships 
USBC has awarded $1,000 college scholarships to 12 USBC Youth members through the USBC Gift For Life Scholarships program. Click here to see this year's recipients.

Pennsylvania youth bowler to receive USBC Annual Zeb Scholarship 
Katherine Welsh of McMurray, Pa., has been selected to receive the 2011 USBC Annual Zeb Scholarship. The $2,500 scholarship is awarded annually to a USBC Youth member who achieves academic success and gives back to the community through service.

Welsh will receive the scholarship at the USBC Junior Gold Championships award presentation in Las Vegas on July 15. To learn more about the scholarship opportunities offered to USBC Youth bowlers, please visit BOWL.com/scholarships.

Hamilton, Barnes capture Intercollegiate Singles Championships titles 
Brittni Hamilton of Vanderbilt and Kyle Barnes of Middle Tennessee claimed titles at the 2011 USBC Intercollegiate Singles Championships on May 24 at AMF Euless Lanes in Euless, Texas.

Click here for coverage of the ISC, including interviews with the winners.

USBC Junior Gold program achieves record participation  
The USBC Junior Gold program recently set a record for most memberships sold in a season. At the end of April, Junior Gold membership stood at 3,407 and more youth bowlers are expected to join before the membership year ends July 31.

More than 1,700 participants already have qualified for the 2011 Junior Gold Championships presented by Brunswick, scheduled for July 9-15 in Las Vegas, Nev., and the tournament is projected to have one of the largest fields in the event's history.

To learn more about USBC Junior Gold, visit BOWL.com/juniorgold.

You can support BVL at the championship events
The Bowlers to Veterans Link has a new way for you to support our U.S. active duty and veteran service men and women when you attend the Open or Women's Championships.

Simply go to the USBC Sports Store and you can boost the spirits of America's heroes through a $1, $5, $10, or $20 donation to BVL via cash, check, or credit card. For the women bowling in Syracuse, N.Y., when they make a donation they will receive a BVL decal which can be applied to a map in the squad room to indicate their  hometown.

Founded in 1942, the Bowlers to Veterans Link is headquartered in metropolitan Washington, D.C. and is guided by representatives of the United States Bowling Congress and the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America.