The 500/600 and Adult/Junior Tournament Entry Forms are now available. For convenience, they can also be downloaded here:
500/600 Tournament Entry Form | November 7 & 8, Sparta Lanes
Adult/Junior Tournament Entry Form | November 14 & 15, Northfield Lanes
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.
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
The Greater Grand Rapids League Officers Jamboree tournament will be Saturday, October 17 at Fairlanes.
Open to all Officers of all Certified leagues in the Greater Grand Rapids USBC. Entries limited to 4 bowlers from a league.
One squad at 1:00pm.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
We heard several excellent reports from our attendees to the USBC Annual Meeting. Here they are again if you would like to read them.
Fran Reus – Planning for Success
Fran Reus – Networking
Matt Jelsma – Coaching Clinics
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
Over the next two months we will focus on promoting Youth bowling through our A Future for the Sport campaign. When you think about it, isn’t that the core of what A Future for the Sport says?
