About2011 USBC Queens
April 22-27, 2011
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Syracuse, NY
If you’re a female USBC member who’s ready to show what you’re made of on the lanes, then you should enter the USBC Queens. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime to go head-to-head for big bucks against the best women bowlers in the world.
You may know that the USBC Queens (formerly the WIBC Queens Tournament) is held in conjunction with the USBC Women’s Championships and draws nearly 300 of the world’s top amateur and professional female bowlers. If you enter the 2010 Queens,you'll be competing for a share of a $180,000 prize fund (based on 320 entries) and a $30,000 first prize.
Get ready because the Queens has an interesting and exciting format. You and the other contestants bowl 10 qualifying games on challenging USBC Sport Bowling lane conditions before the field is cut to the top 25 percent for an additional five games. From there, the top 63 qualifiers plus the previous year’s champion advance to double-elimination match play. Each match consists of three games with the highest total advancing.
The stepladder finals include the four finalists from the winner’s bracket and the winner of the contender’s bracket. The finalists bowl one-game matches, but if the top seed loses, a second game is necessary to determine the champion. The field is ultimately narrowed to the top five. If you bowl well enough to make the tournament finals, you’ll bowl on live national television because the stepladder finals are televised by ESPN2.
Read MoreGeneral Information - Click here for rules.
Prize Fund - Click here for prize fund.
Oil Pattern - Click here for oil pattern.
Squad Assignments - Click here for squad assignments
Friday, April 23
8:30-9:30 p.m.: Practice Session Squad A (Fresh Condition)
9:30-10:30 p.m.: Practice Session Squad B (No Re-Oil)
Saturday, April 24
First Qualifying Block (5 games)
3 p.m. Squad A (Fresh Condition)
6 p.m. Squad B (No Re-Oil)
Sunday, April 25
Second Qualifying Block (5 games)
3 p.m. Squad B (Fresh Condition)
6 p.m. Squad A (No Re-Oil)
Monday, April 26
9 a.m. - Third Qualifying Block (5 games)
1 p.m. - Match Play Begins (3-game matches) 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m., and 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27
Match Play continues (3-game matches)
Re-Oil
Wednesday, April 28
6 p.m.: USBC Queens Televised Finals
ContactEmail: usbcqueens@bowl.com
Phone: (800) 514-BOWL (2695), ext. 3173
Media Contact
Lucas Wiseman
USBC Communications
Lucas.Wiseman@bowl.com

The USBC Queens debuted as the WIBC Queens Tournament in 1961 in Fort Wayne, Ind., as a companion event to the WIBC Championship Tournament.
A field of 122 bowlers hit the lanes for the first Queens, which was conducted at Northcrest Lanes. Janet Harman, a former Navy lieutenant from Cerritos, Calif., went undefeated in six matches and averaged 199 to become the champion. She defeated Eula Touchette of East St. Louis, Ill., 794-776 in the final four-game locally-televised match to earn the $1,000 first place prize.
The list of Queens champions is a whos who of womens bowling. Sixteen past champions have been enshrined into the USBC Hall of Fame, including the events first champion Harman, Donna Adamek, Patty Ann, Loa Boxberger, Pam Buckner, Cindy Coburn-Carroll, Anne Marie Duggan, Pat Costello, Dotty Fothergill, Millie Ignizio, D.D. Jacobson, Betty Kuczynski, Sill, Judy Soutar, Lisa Wagner and Dorothy Wilkinson.
Only six bowlers have won multiple titles with Macpherson and Ignizio the only three-time winners. Macpherson won in 1988, 2000 and 2003 and Ignizio won in 1967, 1970 and 1971. The other multiple winners whose titles came in back-to-back years include: Adamek (1979-80), Dorothy Fothergill (1972-73) and Japans Katsuko Sugimoto (1981-82). Aleta Sill won two titles which came in 1983 and 1985.
Read MoreCheck out all the great champions in Queens history dating back to the first tournament in 1961. Will you add your name to this infamous list?
2009 - 2000
2009 - Liz Johnson, Cheektowaga, N.Y. (247-204)1989 - 1980
1989- Carol Gianotti, Perth, Australia (207-177)1979 - 1970
1979 - Donna Adamek, Apple Valley, Calif. (216-181)1969 - 1961
1969 - Ann Feigel, Tuscon, Ariz. (832-765)