Hudson and Ebel Win the 2015 Officers Jamboree

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Congratulations to Richard Ebel Jr. and Randy Hudson Sr. who claimed victory at the 2015 Officers Jamboree.  Richard and Randy combined for a 1,471 handicap score, besting the field of 42 teams by over 50 pins. This years jamboree was held October 17th at Fairlanes.

The League Officers Jamboree tournament is held each fall, and is open to all Officers of all Certified leagues in the Greater Grand Rapids USBC.

Final standings can be found here: Current Standings

2015-16 Calendar of Events

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The Calendar of Events for the 2015-2016 season is now available.  You can find the PDF conveniently in the upper right hand section of the website.  Tournament pages are being updated to reflect.

2015-2016 Events Calendar

Upcoming Events

League Officers Jamboree – October 17
Hall of Fame Dinner – November 7
500/600 Tournament – November 7 & 8
Coaching Clinic – November 8
Adult / Youth Doubles Tournament – November 14 & 15
Budweiser Open – November 21 & 22
700/800 Tournament – December 5 & 6, 12 & 13

Bowl.com Mobile App

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Did you know that USBC has a mobile app?  The BOWL.com mobile app is a great way for USBC members to access their statistics, the latest news and more from their smartphone.

The app, available for Android and Apple phones, provides USBC members a simple mobile version of some commonly used BOWL.com functions including:

  • Direct link to personal statistics
  • Membership card
  • Find a Member search
  • USBC Rulebook
  • BOWL.com news feed

A few things to know to help you with the BOWL.com app:

Mobile app – what to know
The BOWL.com mobile app only is available to current USBC members. It only is available for Android and Apple phones; it is not available for Windows phones.

Please email bowlinfo@bowl.com should you have any questions.

HomeApp

You will need a BOWL.com login
If you already have a login ID and password for the BOWL.com website, you can use it for the mobile app. Otherwise, you will need to create a login and password, which is easy to do on the mobile app.

Create a login
To create a login, you will need your member ID and your date of birth. If you don’t know your member ID number, simply click “Forgot member ID?” link. Once you have filled the Member ID fields, scroll the fields to put in birth date,
then tap “Continue”.

Confirm your email, provide a password

The email address tied to your member ID and birth date will populate in the first field, so you simply will need to fill in the Confirm Email, Password and Confirm Password.  Once you have filled the fields, tap “Continue”. Please remember the email and password you created can be used to login to the mobile app and BOWL.com website.

Mobile app homepage
The mobile app has USBC’s most popular links. It is key to note that at the
bottom-right there is a “My stats” icon that will display your statistics and any
achievements.

 

PBR Bowling Classic

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The Greater Grand Rapids Bowling Council will be hosting the first of 5 events the weekend of September 19 and 20th.

The Men are scheduled for September 19th, and the Women are scheduled for September 20th.

Entry forms: Men | Women

See the Council section for more information

USBC League Officers Open House

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Monday, August 17, 2015 – 12:00 noon – 6:00PM
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 – 12:00 noon – 6:00PM
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 – 12:00 noon – 6:00PM
Thursday, August 20, 2015 – 12:00 noon – 6:00PM

Association Office
2405-A Porter SW, Wyoming
(Northwest corner of Byron Center and Porter)

616-530-8195

Email: grgrandrapids81496@sbcglobal.net

Pick up your league supplies, at your convenience, on one of these dates.

(This will not be a sit-down meeting this year. You do not need to make a reservation.)

Enter your name into a drawing for a free $18.00 2015-2016 membership.

Enter your league’s name into a drawing for a free software update.

You must pick up your league supplies to be eligible for the drawings.

TJ’s Poker Room Event

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Join us at Lincoln Lanes, August 13-16 for poker tournaments and cash games.  Once again we’re working with TJ’s Charity Poker Room and a portion of the proceeds benefit the Greater Grand Rapids USBC.

Schedule of Events

August 13 – Doors open at 4pm for cash games.
Tournament starts at 6pm is a $20 Build-A-Stack game. Players can buy more chips while playing. $20/$10 Rebuy Tournament.

August 14 – Doors open at 4pm for cash games.
Tournament starts at 6pm is a $50 Deep Stack Freeze Out event. 25,000 Chips.

August 15 – Doors open at 4pm for cash games.
Tournament starts at 6pm is a $50 Deep Stack Freeze Out event. 25,000 Chips.

August 16 – Doors open at 2pm for cash games. 2 Tournaments on Sunday.
3pm – $30 Freeze Out, 10,000 Chips
7pm – $40 Freeze Out, 20,000 Chips

Annual Meeting & Board of Directors Elections

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The Annual Meeting was held on May 14 at Westgate Bowl at 7:00pm.

Thank you to all those who attended last nights Annual Meeting. We had about 50 in attendance. We heard several excellent reports from the USBC Annual Meeting in Nebraska (which will be posted online soon), elected 1 president, elected 5 officers, and passed one amendment to the by-laws. The amendment now states that for Election of Directors, “Qualifications must be submitted to the Nominating Committee at least one week prior to the Opening of the Annual Meeting”. This used to be 24 hours.

Pat Cross was re-elected as president.

Re-elected to 3 year terms as board members were:
JoAnn Goggins, Earl Haney, Sharyl Jahn, Matthew Jelsma, and Leroy McIntosh