Central PA Junior Gold Shootout

Good afternoon all,

The squads have been finalized and the SMART funds have been applied. Emails should have all been sent out. Once again thank you for attending. We had an awesome turnout and some pretty
Great results!! We had 96 total entries. We had 40 total JG entries. We awarded 14 spots to the National Championships and handed out $2000 in scholarships. A huge thank you to Tom and the staff at Holiday Bowl, to Jeff and the staff at St. Vincent College and to Brian Beighley for being my gopher and handling a lot of the leg work for me. Without you gentleman and staff this would not be possible.

Good evening everyone.

Below I have posted all of the standings for both the Scholarship portion and Junior Gold portions of the tournament. I have also posted the financial reports for the JG Portion only.
I believe in transparency and also in educating people on policies that are often misunderstood. I believe in awarding as many spots to JG as I can so my advancer ratio is 1:4. Simply 1 advancer for every 4 entries. The USBC has a policy called EARP. The policy states “if the event has five, six, or seven entrants, the tournament will advance the winner under their 1:4 ratio. The second-place finisher would now be given the opportunity to fund any remaining shortfall between the entry money collected and the appropriate division entry fee and claim a spot in the Junior Gold Championships. This option is only available to the next player in line. If that player declines to exercise this option, it ceases at that point and the option is not available to other finishers down the line in the standings” During the 9am portion in the 18U girls division the 2nd place bowler did not exercise the option so the spot was not awarded. This left me with $100 in unassigned funds. Due to the JG portion not offering scholarships and the lineage being paid out of the scholarship entry fees, according to tournament rules and USBC guidelines the $100 excess will be held and forwarded to cover the expenses of future events. I hope this helps to explain why I collect extra $$$ for “Partial Spots”. If anyone has further questions or needs further clarification please reach out to me. Also as information the Tournament Staff are all volunteers and accept no money from entry fees. All fees ultimately get paid to the USBC to cover JG entry fees. I hope everyone had a great experience and of course we hope you all stay tuned and come back for future events!!

Wow what a day!!! 14 spots Awarded, a 300 game, a 299 game, great competition and even some nods from the college coaches! Congratulations to all our bowlers. All of the final results will be posted shortly. But for now let’s congratulate our advancers and also Preston Smith for a 300 game and Xander Goudreau with a 299!

We are now less than a week away!!! Please contact Tom at Holiday Bowl to submit your registration. We have singles and doubles and Junior Gold Qualifying for both. We have scholarships and raffle and College coaches on hand! The S/D scholarship portion will run U12/U15/U18. The JG portion will run U12/U14/U16/U18 boys and girls depending on sign ups. We usually award between 15-20 spots out of this tournament alone so if you’re looking for a chance you won’t find a cheaper one in Central PA.

We are just over a week away. We still have plenty of spots available. We regularly have around 100 kids compete at this event. Come and try to earn your spot to Junior Gold, win scholarship $$$$, and even have the opportunity to be recruited by college coaches.

Less than a month away. Please checkout our 3rd installment of our youth scholarship tournament. Once again we will have our singles squad and doubles squad with 2 junior gold qualifiers. Also college coaches will be on hand actively recruiting. It’s a great opportunity!

All. I have received numerous comments on the Nov 30th tournament. The Singles/Doubles scholarship portion of the tournament will ONLY be the 3 divisions listed. The Junior Gold portion will be the new age divisions if we have enough to run each division separately.

REMINDER: we are holding an informational parents meeting this Sat at 10:30 for the Junior Gold League. This will be at Holiday Bowl Altoona. We plan to have the first session pattern laid out so that the kids can get a feel for it. Please plan on attending if you are interested in the league. Also if you cannot make it and want to participate please message me so I know. We need a good count to know how many lanes to prepare.

Along with our Junior Gold League we will continue to host our tournament series. We are excited to continue our mission of helping youth qualify for Junior Gold as well as develop their skills and build the future of the sport.

PARENT’S MEETING scheduled for Sat Sept 6, at 10:30am at Holiday Bowl. Please attend if at all possible so that we can get an idea of how many kids are going to be involved. This will help us with lane set ups the following week. Items to be discussed will be fees, rules, expectations, Q&A. We will also have the first week pattern laid out for the kids to bowl on. If you have not already given me a heads up that you plan on attending, please just drop a comment below.

Official Announcement. Our Junior Gold League is a go! Qualifiers every 8 weeks. End of year scholarship tournament for league bowlers. Plus benefits from Holiday Bowl for league bowlers.