Cain started bowling at age 6 and had his first 300 game at age 12. He finished 10th in the first Junior Gold Championships in 1998, credentials that helped him earn the 1999 Chuck Hall Star of Tomorrow Award. He was a two-time first-team All-American at Arizona State University. In 2001, Cain was named Bowling Writers Association of America Amateur Bowler of the Year, an award he would win again in 2005, and was runner-up for BWAA Collegiate Bowler of the Year.

As a member of Team USA, he won three gold medals at the 2005 FIQ/WTBA American Zone Championships, a bronze medal in singles at the 2005 World Games, and he won five gold medals and one silver at the Tournament of the Americas. He also brought home a silver medal from the 2003 WTBA World Championships and was a semifinalist in the 2002 AMF World Cup.

Cain, a USBC Silver coach, was a member of the Team All-Events champion at the 2011 USBC Open Championships. He has rolled numerous 300 games and has an 868 high series.

A member of the American Bar Association and the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants, he has spent most of the past two decades in similar positions for several companies. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of ABCO, a for-profit subsidiary of the American Bowling Congress.

Bluth, the son of USBC Hall of Famer Ray Bluth, earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979. He added advanced degrees in law (J.D. and LL.M.) from the school in 1982 and 1987.

He started his work career in 1980 as a supervisor for Touche Ross & Co. in St. Louis. After five years, he became an assistant tax director for Southwestern Bell Corporation before moving to Florida in 1989. He worked in Maryland from 2000-03 before returning to Florida for his present position.

Bluth is married with four children.

Adams served as a director, fifth vice president and third vice president of the Women’s International Bowling Congress during her 10 years on the WIBC Board of Directors. She also was a member of the USA Bowling Board of Trustees.

Her past bowling positions include Team USA state coordinator; Charlotte Women’s Bowling Association director and president; North Carolina WBA director, first vice president and president; North Carolina Bowling Council secretary; and WIBC and North Carolina WBA delegate.

Adams served on numerous committees including the WIBC Joint Diversity and Legislative committees, where she was chair, and also on the Association Governance and Collegiate committees. She also was a member of the Structure Committee that formed USBC.

She was inducted into the Charlotte WBA Hall of Fame in 1995 for meritorious service and is a Charlotte WBA Life Member. She was included into the former North Carolina WBA Hall of Fame for meritorious service.

Adams is a former president of the Greater Charlotte USBC Association and the North Carolina State USBC Association. She is chair of the board of trustees of the Greater Charlotte Bowling Scholarship Fund.

Away from bowling, Adams enjoys listening to classical music, operas, theater, gaming and cheering for the Duke University Blue Devils. She and husband Jerry have two daughters.

At the national level, Baker has served on the USBC Board of Directors since the organization’s inception and has spent time as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. She previously served as a director on the Young American Bowling Alliance, Women’s International Bowling Congress and USA Bowling boards of directors.

Baker, the Chief Financial Officer for the Piatt County Mental Health Center, has been on the Illinois USBC Women’s Bowling Association Board of Directors since 1993 and served as third vice president for nearly six years. She served as a director on the Clinton (Ill.) USBC for four years, and has served on the Champaign Area USBC as a director for five years with one year as third vice president.

She has been on the Illinois State USBC Youth Board since 1994, where she was second vice president for 10 years and now is the only vice president for that board. She was Illinois Bowling Council secretary-treasurer for eight years and spent 20 years on the Clinton WBA Board, including three years as president. She is a member of the Clinton WBA Hall of Fame and Illinois WBA Hall of Fame, both for meritorious service.

On the lanes, she won eight titles in the 1989 Clinton WBA championships. She also is a certified lane inspector.

Baker bowled a high series of 675 to finish fourth in Classified Singles at the 2006 USBC Open Championships.

She and her husband, Randy, have four children and five grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, crocheting, crafts, flower arranging and working with the University of Illinois Women’s Volleyball support group, the Networkers, serving on the board from 1998 to 2009, serving six years as president.

In 2008, he was inducted into the TNBA Southern Region Hall of Fame for meritorious service and in 2010 received the annual TNBA Joe Blue Award for Outstanding Service.

On the local level, Daniels served as American Bowling Congress director for the Greater St. Louis Bowling Association.

Perry retired after 30 years with IBM Corporation and owned his own service industry business for five years. He is Past President and Rules Interpreter of the Dallas Basketball Officials Association.

Daniels and his wife, Linda, have four children and nine grandchildren. He bowls in a USBC league and is an avid golfer.

Dimond served as a director for the Women’s International Bowling Congress from 2002-05 and as executive director of the Greater Columbus Bowling Association from 2001-05. She was association secretary for the Columbus WBA from 1988-2005.

She served on the USBC Restructuring Task Force in 2008-09, has been on the Nominating Committees for WIBC and USBC, and was an original member of the Membership Development team for Bowling Headquarters in the early 1990s.

Gann serves as the commissioner of high school bowling in Oklahoma and was chairman of the ABC/WIBC Collegiate Committee. He was awarded the Gordon Teigen Meritorious Service Award in 2010 by the Collegiate Bowling Coaches Association.

He was selected as the 2004 Jim Thorpe Man of the Year for bowling for the state of Oklahoma. The award recognizes an individual who has made a significant impact or has attained an exceptional degree of accomplishment in a sport as a major contributor, administrator, leader, path maker or competitor in the state of Oklahoma.

Away from bowling, Gann is a retired teacher, coach and assistant principal at Sand Springs Schools and currently is employed as a loan officer at Great Plains Mortgage in Tulsa, Okla. He is a member of the National Education Association and the Oklahoma Education Association, in addition to being a member of the Oklahoma Coaches Association.

He and wife Leah have two children. He enjoys family time, travel and coaching youth bowlers.

She was on the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America Youth Committee for 10 years and helped resurrect the In-School Bowling Program. She has volunteered at the USBC Junior Gold and Pepsi Championships for many years.

A Bronze level coach, she was secretary-treasurer on the board of directors of the former Young American Bowling Alliance in its final season in 2004-05. She also has served as president of the Northern Michigan Bowling Proprietors Association.

Before involvement with the bowling center, she was a secretary for a high school for six years and a bank teller for four years.

In 2006, she was one of 17 people to earn the distinguished Proprietor of the Year award from BPAA.

Italia holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and administration from the University of Phoenix, and holds many certificates in fire and rescue services. He serves as a fire marshal and career firefighter, and has used bowling as a fundraiser for local non-profit groups.

A third-generation bowler and a member of USBC and the former American Bowling Congress and Young American Bowling Alliance for more than two decades, he has a 299 high game and 756 high series. He has won two junior league tournaments and several adult tournaments. He also enjoys coaching youth bowlers and helping form new leagues and getting new members.

In 2006 he joined the Professional Bowlers Association as a full member and bowls in regional events in his spare time. He lives with his wife, Tami, his daughter, Johanna, and his son, Luciano.

Kielich is president of the El Paso USBC and has been on the El Paso USBC/El Paso Bowling Association board for more than 14 years. He was actively involved in the local promotion of the 2010 USBC Women’s Championships in El Paso and also is the tournament director for the El Paso Scratch Classic.

A finance manager for AT&T since 2005, Kielich previously worked as an assistant manager at a bowling center. As program coordinator for the new facility, he created successful leagues and tournaments for the new center in addition to serving as manager of the pro shop.

On the lanes, Kielich has one professional title in the PBA Southwest region and more than 20 city titles in the El Paso USBC/El Paso BA along with several 300 and 800 series. He was inducted into the El Paso USBC Hall of Fame in 2008.

A seven-time Team USA and two-time Junior Team USA member, Kulick graduated in 2000 from Morehead State University, where she was a two-time Collegiate Bowler of the Year. She won Rookie of the Year honors for the 2001 Professional Women’s Bowling Association season and in 2006 became the first female to earn a Professional Bowlers Association Tour exemption.

In 2010, Kulick became the first woman to win a PBA Tour title when she won the 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions. Her 2010 season also included her second Queens title and her second U.S. Women’s Open title.

The proprietor at Sun Valley Lanes in Lincoln, Losito was honored in 2012 with the President’s Medal for his leadership and many contributions and years of service to BPAA, especially in the area of tournaments as BPAA’s Tournament Committee chairman. He was selected the 2006 Nebraska Bowling Proprietor of the Year.

Losito was an at-large BPAA board member in 2007 and 2008. A member of the BPAA High School Committee, he also has served as state commissioner of the Nebraska High School Bowling Federation since its inception in 2000. He has been on the board of the Nebraska State Bowling Proprietors since 1998.

He is a two-time collegiate national bowling team champion (Erie Community College in 1988, Nebraska in 1990) and a three-time academic All-American.

He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska where he also was a member of the bowling club and served as president from 1992-94. He was Collegiate Bowler of the Year runner-up and was selected Most Valuable Player at the Intercollegiate Bowling Championships in 1994.

Manna, who is a Senior Administrator at West Corporation in Omaha, is a member of the Nebraska State and Omaha Bowling Halls of Fame.

A bowler for more than 40 years, Martin has been an active volunteer at the local, state and national level for most of his life. He was on the ABC Board of Directors from 2002-2004 and served on the Greater Detroit Bowling Association Board for 20 years. Martin has recent experience at the national level, serving on the USBC Strategic Planning Committee from 2004-2007.

Before taking over as association manager for Metro Detroit four years ago, Martin spent 10 years as Executive Director of the Greater Detroit Bowling Association and three years as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Detroit Women’s Bowling Association.

Nephew previously worked for AMF Bowling, where he was named Manager of the Year in 2004. He also spent several years with Marcel Bowling Enterprises, managing one of the largest facilities in the U.S., the former 80-lane center Olympic Bowl in Rochester, N.Y. Among his duties was serving as special events coordinator for the Lilac City Tournament and helping orchestrate the Professional Bowlers Association event in Rochester.

Nephew began his bowling career at age 3, becoming the youngest bowler in his small hometown of Plattsburgh, N.Y., to be certified at that time. Since then, Nephew has amassed a variety of bowling accomplishments, including the High Roller A-Game, World Team Challenge titles and the Rochester New York Masters.

Nephew has competed in several PBA events and has traveled internationally to South Africa, where he captured the Menlyn Open title.

A three-time member of Team USA (1997-1999), Peterson was the 1996 U.S. Amateur champion. He helped Team USA to the team silver medal at the 1999 World Tenpin Bowling Association World Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

At the 1997 Pan American Bowling Confederation Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, he helped Team USA to gold medals in the trios and team events

A USBC Silver level coach, Peterson has been in the pro shop business for more than 17 years. He has more than 40 career 300 games and more than 20 career 800 series.

A bowler since age 7, Rose won the New York State Women’s Queens Division II in 2003. In 2008, she won the local team association championships. In addition, she placed first five out of six years in the mixed team event at the Wild Irish Rose tournament. In 1998 she held a mixed doubles two-game total city record of 567.

She has held secretary/treasurer for local leagues and has served as a league president.

He is chair of the USBC Youth Committee and a youth committee representative on the USBC Board of Directors. After serving a one-year term as president of the Empire State USBC BA, he was elected vice president of the newly merged New York State USBC, effective Aug. 1, 2011.

He has served on the New York State USBC Youth Association Board of Directors since 2004 and is an active volunteer of the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America, serving on the Youth, Young Guns, Constitution and Bylaws, Marketing, and International Bowl Expo committees.

He began volunteering with the Young American Bowling Alliance Youth Leaders Chapter at age 11, serving on various project committees, and was elected president of the chapter at 14. He was elected president of the USBC New York State Youth Leaders chapter when he was 18 and, two years later, was elected Staten Island USBC Association president.

He has received many honors for his work with youth bowling, including New York State YABA Youth Leader of the Year and Youth Leader Alumni Bridging the Gap Award in 2004, the 2004-05 YABA National Male Youth Leader of the Year, and the Local Youth Sports Administrator of the Year by The National Council of Youth Sports in 2008.

He is a part-time student at DeVry University, pursuing a degree in Sales & Marketing and Project Management.

A bowler for more than 35 years, Williams had a record qualifying round at the 2007 USBC Senior Queens. She was part of a team that won several Brunswick World Team Challenge women’s events in the 1990s. She was named 2006-07 Great Plains USBC Senior Bowler of the Year.

Williams worked for Learjet, Inc. for 34 years, including 20 as a corporate tax analyst.

In 1991, he initiated the creation of the first magazine for all ABC members, leading to the creation of Bowling Headquarters’ first membership database. Vint helped design the Registered Volunteer Program and was liaison to the ABC, WIBC and USBC Hall of Fame committees. In 10 prior years, he was the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour Marketing Director.

A former Bowling Writers Association of America President and Executive Director, he is a member of the BWAA Hall of Fame. Vint and wife Lisa founded Windy City Bowling News which has served greater Chicagoland for 20 years.

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