Do you want to be involved in a sport which is also considered a leisurely activity? Bowling is where you can find that. The bowling team at East Grand Rapids is a great opportunity for students to play a sport for the school without the huge time commitment or competitiveness that all of the other sports normally bring.

Bowling is a winter sport at East Grand Rapids. The team heads to different local bowling alleys a few times a week. For the matches during the week the team plays two bankers matches and two regular games. In addition to that, the team has tournaments which are typically on Saturday mornings.

The bowling team’s season hasn’t been extremely successful, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying their best and having fun. They haven’t won a match thus far this season, but are hopeful that a few of their matches will end with a win.

“We’ve lost every match and no one’s very good but the season has been a blast anyway,” Katherine Donnelly ‘18 said.. “I chose to be on the team because I like to bowl and a lot of my friends were doing it, so I figured it would be fun to try.”

Our bowling team at the high school hasn’t been around for very long but over the past few years it has accumulated many new players and cultivated into one of the most fun teams to be on.

“I chose to do bowling with a few of my friends because we thought it would be a fun new thing to try out this year!” Livi VanderHyde ‘18 said. ”Everyone is super nice and supportive of one another on the team and our practices are always really laid back. We have yet to win a match this season, but I am hopeful we will because we’ve all been improving a lot.”

Another student at East Grand Rapids and member of the bowling team agrees that he is on the bowling team for the dynamic and the ability to be on a team with his friends.

”Bowling is a lot of fun,” Tyler Cornetet ‘19 said.  “I have enjoyed the season so far because it’s been fun to bowl with all my boys. I chose to be on the bowling team because I heard it was a fun team to be apart of.”

The team is hopeful they can turn their season around and end with a few successful wins, so make sure to come watch a match sometime before it’s over. The next bowling match is on January, 2018 at 5 p.m.