USBC Senior Queens returns to national stage in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS – For the first time due to the fact 2019, the top female United States Bowling Congress associates age 50 and older will choose to the lanes at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino for the USBC Senior Queens.
The 2022 edition of the occasion will kick off Friday with the tournament’s official exercise session, prior to the initial round of qualifying will get underway Saturday at 11 a.m. Japanese.
Much more than 75 rivals will be on the lookout to assert the championship tiara and $8,000 top prize.
The 2020 and 2021 editions of the Senior Queens have been canceled thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
USBC and Professional Women’s Bowling Association Hall of Famer Jeanne Naccarato of Tacoma, Washington, won the 2019 occasion for her 1st tiara, defeating Australia’s Lee Booth in the last, 245-209.
Naccarato will not be defending her title in 2022, nonetheless, so you will find an possibility for one particular of the four earlier champions in the discipline to insert another title to their assortment or a new competitor to increase their name to the historic record of event champions.
The earlier champions in the discipline involve 3-time winner and USBC Corridor of Famer Lucy Sandelin of Tampa, Florida (2007, 2013 and 2017) USBC and PWBA Corridor of Famer Tish Johnson of Colorado Springs, Colorado (2018) Paula Vidad of Sun City, California (2011) and Char Hammel of Henderson, Nevada (2010).
The roster for the 2022 event also contains a number of athletes who medaled at the Worldwide Bowling Federation Masters (previously Senior) Earth Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in November 2021.
All 4 members of the group that represented the United States will be competing at the Senior Queens soon after amassing four bronze medals in singles, doubles, team and blended group competition – Johnson Debbie Ayers of La Mesa, California Tracy Calfee of Flat Rock, North Carolina and Sharon Powers of Lakewood, Colorado.
A few of the 4 associates that claimed the silver medal in workforce levels of competition for Canada also will be on the lanes at Gold Coast this week – Lauraine Fast of Calgary, Alberta Jill Friis of Mount Brydges, Ontario and Deborah Lee of White Rock, British Columbia.
Several of the gamers in the area at the Senior Queens also competed at the 31st Annual Worldwide Golden Ladies Common from March 13-17 at The Orleans Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
Regina Aboud of San Jose, California, received the senior division at the 2022 Global Golden Females Vintage, and Heidi Pagenkopf of Lynnwood, Washington, received her second title in the super senior division. Aboud and Pagenkopf will not be competing at the Senior Queens.
All rivals at the 2022 Senior Queens will bowl 15 games of qualifying over two days. The major 32 gamers, based mostly on full pinfall, will advance to the double-elimination match-enjoy bracket.
Naccarato would have been guaranteed a place in the bracket as the defending champion based mostly on her qualifying overall, but the place now goes back again to the discipline.
The bracket will characteristic 3-video game matches, with whole pinfall figuring out who advances. The 5 players who make their way by means of the bracket will progress to the stepladder finals. The celebration features a real double-elimination format, so the No. 1 seed for the stepladder would have to eliminate 2 times in the championship match.
BowlTV.com will supply livestream protection of each individual spherical of opposition. The stepladder finals will take place Monday at 8 p.m. Jap.