Marliss Tapp

Outstanding USBC Performance

Marliss Tapp
City: Portage
State: MI
Inducted: 2026

Marliss Tapp was part of four Women’s Championships winning teams in the span of just eight years (1997-2004).

All of Tapp’s championships came in the Classic Team division with the first of the four coming at the 1997 event in Reno, Nevada, as part of the Contour Power Grips team.

The next three championships would come as part of the vaunted High Roller team that collected titles in 2000 (Reno, Nevada), 2002 (Milwaukee) and 2004 (Wichita, Kansas).

Each of the four winning team totals was more than 3,000, with a high of 3,327 at the 2002 event and a low of 3,017 in 1997. The winning team total in 2000 was 3,234 and 3,320 in 2004. 

Tapp, a right-hander, was part of a pair of record-setting teams as the 3,234 total in 2000 marked the first time the 3,200 mark was reached in the Classic Team division. That total stood as the record for just two years until Tapp’s 2002 team became the first to break the 3,300 barrier with a then-record 3,327 total. Tapp’s 2004 team came up just shy of the record, finishing just seven pins short with 3,320. The record was broken in 2006 when the Together Once Again team from North Richland Hills, Texas, rolled 3,350. 

Tapp would compete in 30 Women’s Championships in her career and added USBC Hall of Fame honors to her previous inductions into the Michigan State USBC and the Greater Kalamazoo Bowling Association Halls of Fame.