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Hello fellow proprietors! I hope this writing finds everyone well and that your businesses are thriving.
Speaking of our businesses, their continued success largely depends on youth bowlers since they are the future of our sport. I was fortunate to be able to volunteer for the recent 2024 BCAW High School Bowling Club State Championships in early March at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley in Green Bay. It was exhilarating to witness the excitement and enthusiasm from the competitors. At the state tournament, these young bowlers seem to get better and better each year, especially with the fundamentals. I’d like to thank Matt and Ryan Orvis – proprietors at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley – for their incredible knowledge about bowling tournaments. The Orvis brothers and their fine staff did an excellent job.
It is a major undertaking for any bowling center to host our high school state tournament. The BCAW is very thankful that we have proprietors in Wisconsin who are willing to forgo significant business to host our tournament.
Congratulations to all the state champions and to everyone who qualified. They’re all talented bowlers and it’s quite an accomplishment for teams and individuals to advance to state. A special thank you goes out to Phil LaPorte. BCAW appreciates the Wisconsin State USBC for providing the Phil A. LaPorte Scholarships, which total $3,000 to our top five singles finalists. Check out results here.
Following the high school state tournament, we were back in Green Bay at the All Star Team Challenge. The “best-of-the-best” showed up at Riviera Lanes on March 9 for this one-day event. All 14 BCAW high school districts were invited to send their top five individuals based on their year-end fill percentage to send a boys and girls all-star team. BCAW provided $1,700 in scholarships to our top performers in both the singles and team portion of this event. Check out results here. It was incredible to see the excitement and high-level competition!
Thank you to BCAW Executive Director Roger Dalkin and BCAW Program Manager Patrick Brettingen for all the hard work they do for the high school, bowling and middle school bowling programs.
While traveling around the state, I was able to stop at several different bowling centers. I’ll tell you this: I'm very happy and proud to be from Wisconsin, where we take such pride in operating solid bowling center businesses for people to come in and enjoy. Well, we are all in the same business; not one of us has the same center. We are all different and unique. And we all take pride in that.
Sign up for Bowl Expo in Denver
For those who can find time, please consider attending International Bowl Expo 2024 June 29-July 3 in Denver. All BCAW proprietors will benefit from the informative and interesting seminars that will help increase your bottom line.
This year’s keynote speaker list includes Tim Tebow (broadcaster and former quarterback), Donald Miller (author and business owner) and Dana Perino (Fox News host and former White House press secretary for President George W. Bush).
Check out the Bowl Expo website for more information.
Let's all have a very profitable last couple of weeks of this bowling season and look forward to an awesome summer where we can recharge and refocus our businesses.
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