From a High School Bowler’s Perspective

For this blog post, I interviewed two people who bowl on my old high school bowling team. I conducted this interview because I wanted to see what their thoughts and experiences they have about bowling.

Q: When did you start bowling? 

Joe’s A: I have gone bowling with my family and church for recreational fun but I just started bowling competitively two years ago. 

Madison’s A: I started bowling when I was in second grade. 

Q: What was the biggest influence for you to start bowling competitively? 

Joe’s A: My sister was on the bowling team and always talked about how much fun it was. Also, my mom gave me the choice of bowling or playing indoor soccer and I thought bowling would be less work. 

Madison’s A: My biggest influence to start bowling competitively was just to simply get out of the house and find something I could do that a lot of people didn’t necessarily do as much . I wanted to be the odd one out. 

Q: What is your favorite thing about bowling? 

Joe’s A: I made a lot of friends while being on the bowling team. My favorite thing was the jokes and memories that came from these friendships. 

Madison’s A: My favorite thing about bowling is hearing all the pins crash and fall over when you get a good strike. 

Q: Do you think bowling is viewed as less of a sport by other people? 

Joe’s A: Yes in comparison to the other winter sports offered by my high school, bowling would receive less emphasis by the school. There were times when the buses would be late picking us up to take us to a match and there were no support from other students. 

Madison’s A: I feel like a lot of people don’t think bowling is a sport because there isn’t too much physical activity to it, but I disagree. 

Q: Do you think bowling as a sport is dying or growing in terms of popularity? 

Joe’s A: I think it is growing because you see the PBA bowling on TV more and the professional bowlers are getting more recognition than they have before. 

Madison’s A: I honestly think bowling is growing because you see it on TV a lot more and people seem to be getting into it now a days.