USU student breaks bowling league record
USU student Ryan Bell broke the Logan Lanes junior league record by bowling 12 strikes and scoring a personal best of 300. Logan Lanes manager KC Nordick said Bell is the first junior bowler since the alley opened in 1958 to score 300.
Bell, freshman in mechanical engineering who also works at Logan Lanes, said he broke the record on Oct. 6 during his weekly league play at Logan Lanes. Bell said the junior league includes players up to the age of 21.
Bell said he got involved with bowling because his family has been bowling for “who knows how long.”
“I’ve been competitively bowling for six years,” Bell said. “I joined a league and gradually got better through practicing.”
Bell said it is not uncommon for him to bowl two or three times a week. Besides playing on the league team at Logan Lanes, Bell said he is also a member of the USU Bowling Team. Bell said the team recently competed in Reno, Nev., where he and the team placed very well.
“We took fourth place overall as a team out of 14 teams,” Bell said. “I took ninth place individually out of roughly 80 – 85 people.”
Logan Lanes manager KC Nordick said he both works and bowls with Bell, an assistant manager.
“He is the best of the junior league,” Nordick said.
Bell said the best tip he can offer for other bowlers to be successful is to simply aim straight down the middle.
“It’s better to aim for the arrows, painted on the lanes, instead of the pins because the pins are a lot farther away,” he said.
Bell is from Providence and graduated from Mountain Crest High School in 2008. Besides playing bowling he said he enjoys rugby and the outdoors.
–karlie.brand@aggiemail.usu.edu