Shannon O'Keefe

Superior Performance

Shannon O'Keefe
City: Jacksonville
State: AL
Inducted: 2025

Shannon O’Keefe was elected in her inaugural year on the ballot. The right-hander has amassed 15 titles on the Professional Women’s Bowling Association tour, including three major championships, and is a three-time PWBA Player of the Year.

Her first win was a doubles title with Professional Bowlers Association champion Bill O’Neill in the 2015 PBA/PWBA Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles in Houston. The pair successfully defended that title in 2016, and O’Keefe broke through with a pair of PWBA singles titles that same year.

In 2017, O’Keefe started a string of three consecutive years of winning a major championship by capturing the Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship in Richmond, Virginia. She collected the 2018 USBC Queens in Reno, Nevada, and completed the trifecta with another PWBA Tour Championship in 2019, again in Richmond, Virginia.

She garnered PWBA Player of the Year honors in 2018 (two wins, including one major), 2019 (five wins, including one major) and 2022 (one win). Twice she led the PWBA Tour in single-season earnings (2018 and 2019) and average (2021 and 2022).

In addition to her PWBA accolades, O’Keefe had a stellar career with Team USA where she spent 18 consecutive seasons from 2005-2022, earning nearly 50 medals in international competition. She also is a two-time USBC Team USA Trials champion (2018 and 2008).

O’Keefe has left her mark at the USBC Women’s Championships, too. She owns four WC titles (three team championships and the 2016 Diamond All-Events title).