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KU grad on a roll on Tour

Posted Monday, Jan. 14, 2008

In just a few short months, former Kansas University bowler Rhino Page has gone from hoping to be a part of the Professional Bowlers Association tour to nearly taking his first title in December at Spartanburg, S.C. Page, 24, came within 10 pins of defeating PBA veteran Parker Bohn III at the Spartanburg Classic, the tour’s eighth event of the season. Read more.

KU's Zapf top seed for bowling nationals

Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Kansas University senior bowler Kelly Zapf earned the top seed for the women's division of match play at the 2005 Collegiate Singles Championships on Monday at Olympic Lanes. Read more.

6Sports video: Bowling coach gearing up for final KU competition

Posted Thursday, April 21, 2005

There only one coach at KU who has won a national championship: Mike Fine, the longtime coach of the KU bowling team. Read more.

6Sports video: KU men's bowling team takes national championship

Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004

They hadn't won any major competitions this season, but the Jayhawks struck gold in Tulsa, Okla., over the weekend to win the national championship for the first time since 1963. Read more.

KU bowling teams finish in top five

Posted Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004

The KU men's bowling team kept rolling along with its third straight top five finish. The team competed in the 7th Annual Blue and Gold Classic in South Bend, Ind. on Jan. 24 and 25 and finished in 3rd place out of 37 teams. Read more.

Bowling teams ranked, performing well

Posted Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003

The KU men's bowling team is ranked third in the nation, and the women's team is ranked twelfth in the nation, according to Collegebowling.com. They ventured to the Leatherneck Classic in Moline, Ill., on Dec. 6 and 7. The men's team finished fifth, for the third-straight year, in the 26-team field. Read more.

Bowling teams qualify for national championships

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2003

For the first time in team history, both the men's and women's bowling teams qualified for the Intercollegiate Bowling Championships. The men's team finished second and the women's team finished third in last weekend's Midwestern Sectional in Chesterfield, Mo., which was one of four sectionals held around the country. Read more.

Kansas bowler honored

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2003

Marc D'Errico, a member of KU's men's bowling club team, has been named the recipient of the 2003 American Bowling Congress Chuck Hall Star of Tomorrow Award. Read more.

KU men ranked No. 5 in bowling poll

Posted Friday, Jan. 17, 2003

The Kansas University men's bowling team is ranked fifth in the latest National Collegiate Bowling Coaches Assn. poll. The ranking, which is two spots higher than in the last poll, is the team's highest ever. Read more.

KU bowlers rank seventh in poll

Posted Saturday, Nov. 30, 2002

The promise of Thanksgiving turkey and vacation time this weekend will not deter the University of Kansas club bowling teams from traveling to St. Louis for the 25th Annual National Collegiate Team Match Games. Read more.

KU bowlers open season on the road

Posted Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002

Teamwork. Sure, bowling is an individual sport: one person, one ball and ten pins. The one thing that bonds this Kansas team together, however, is the team itself. Read more.

KU men bowlers 5th, women hold 8th

Posted Monday, Oct. 28, 2002

Kansas University's men's bowling club finished fifth and the women were eighth Sunday in the Mid-States Tournament. Read more.

Jaybowl scores a strike with students

Posted Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002

The orange bowling ball rolled down the left half of the highly-polished hardwood. It traveled past three blue pillars with different variations of painted Jayhawks. And, spinning, it neatly kicked out the remaining pin Read more.

6News video: Jaybowl is rolling strikes again

Posted Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002

Renovations began in the Kansas Union's Jaybowl a year ago today. Allison Mann presents the details of its re-opening. Read more.

KU bowling ousted from national tournament

Posted Saturday, April 20, 2002

Kansas University's bowling club was eliminated from the Intercollegiate Bowling Championships after a pair of 4-1 losses on Friday. KU fell to defending national champion Western Illinois early, then to Michigan State in the loser's bracket of the 16-team tournament. Read more.