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For Immediate Release
RE: STRIKE
STRIKE
January 29, 2007
Collegiate bowling.
You may think it wouldn’t generate the thunderous cheers and bleacher-stomping reverberations of more traditional collegiate sports.
Think again. Bowling at the college level—complete with jam-packed bowling alleys and piercing intensity—is a far cry from your dad’s leisurely Monday night bowling league.
“When we get to tournaments, its very intense,” said MBU junior Cory Young, a College Bowling Academic All-American and team captain of MBU’s Varsity Bowling Team. “Especially during the top-tier matches, the screaming and yelling is constant. It’s really a high-stress situation.”
The MBU Men’s Bowling Team, which made its debut in the fall of 2004, has already developed quite a name for itself in the college bowling circuit during its brief existence.
The team has been ranked as high as fifth nationwide and this past October took home top honors at The Brickyard Classic in Indianapolis, Indiana. Led by Young, the MBU Spartans beat the next closest team, Western Illinois University, by more than 500 pins.
Unlike most collegiate sports, a single governing body, College Bowling USA, sanctions every men’s college bowling team in the United States—allowing MBU the opportunity to compete and win against some of the largest schools in the nation.
“Our team’s recent successes really underscores the hard work and determination of the MBU bowling program,” said Joe Galloway, the team’s head coach. “We’re a young team that is competing against large schools and are more than holding our own.”
Like the majority of the MBU Men’s Bowling Team, Young, who has bowled five 300- point games, averages a 216 game and has held two titles for the JBC Gateway Masters Division, says there’s rarely a day that goes by when he’s not practicing his game on a local bowling lane.
For Young, it is his passion.
“It is what we do all of the time” Young said, who recalls regularly bowling at his local bowling alley at his hometown in Steelville, Ill. “I’ve been a bowler for as long as I can remember. It is what I do.”
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Missouri Baptist University is a premier Christian university in Saint Louis, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in over thirty specialized fields and nine degrees. MBU's education and fine arts programs are nationally known in addition to business, religion, administration of justice, and more. MBU is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Missouri with an enrollment of over 4,500 students at five locations in the bi-state region — West County, Lincoln County, Jefferson County, Franklin County and the new Illinois extension at Lewis and Clark Community College.
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