Adam Johnson of Oswego, Ill., averaged 207 for 12 games to take a 57-pin lead in boys' High School Division of the 14th annual Teen Masters bowling championships presented by Ebonite International Monday at Laurel Lanes.
Correen Lieber of Issaquah, Wash., with 2,357 pins for 12 games, led the girls' High School Division;
Wesley Low Jr. of Palmdale, Calif., had a 2,476 total to pace the boys' Under 14 Division and
Taryn Gray of Greenville, Texas, with 2,213 pins, led the girls' Under 14 Division as the top one-third of the players in each division survived the first cut.
Jori Peterson (pictured) of Rockford, Ill., has been selected to receive the USBC Youth Volunteer of the Year Award by the USBC Youth Committee. The prestigious award recognizes an adult volunteer who has displayed outstanding efforts to foster, organize and promote certified youth bowling programs at the local, state and/or national levels. Peterson, 45, is the Mites and Bumper coach for the youth leagues at Don Carter Lanes in Rockford. 
Ashleigh Calcote (l.) of Friendswood, Texas, and Dominick Savage (r.) of Missouri City, Texas, have been selected as the USBC Youth Ambassadors of the Year by the USBC Youth Committee. The award annually recognizes one female and one male USBC Youth bowler for exemplary contributions to the sport, academic accomplishments and community involvement. With both from the Houston area, the USBC Youth bowlers are very familiar with one another.
With record scholarships on the line in the 2012 North Pointe Junior Gold Championships presented by Brunswick will shift to a double-elimination match-play bracket for the top 16 bowlers in each of four divisions. The event, which will have $250,000 in scholarships up for grabs, is expected to draw nearly 2,000 bowlers from across the country to Indianapolis from July 14-20. In addition to scholarships, bowlers will be competing for spots on Junior Team USA.
The two largest youth scholarship tournaments in the nation have joined to develop an unprecedented opportunity for youth bowlers in the creation of the $250,000 North Pointe Junior Gold Championships presented by Brunswick. The North Pointe Junior Gold Championships is made possible by the merger of the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Junior Gold Championships and the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America's (BPAA) North Pointe High School Singles Championships into one event.
On August 4, 2011 Ashley N. Dunn, Palmdale Calif., became the first person ever to win consecutive Teen Masters National Titles. Last year in Reno, Nevada at the National Bowling Stadium, Ashley defeated Chevelle Holstein of Sparks, Nevada to claim the inaugural Teen Masters Girls U14 title. This year's finals were contested in Vanderbilt Hall at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, the largest train station in the U.S., with over 750,000 passengers passing through it each day. Vanderbilt Hall has been host to many great events in the past, but never bowling. 
Twelve teenage bowlers (pictured), including defending High School Boys champion Zack Hattori of Las Vegas, earned trips to the final rounds of the 14th annual Teen Masters bowling championships presented by Ebonite International Tuesday at Laurel Lanes. Four boys and four girls in the High School Divisions, along with two boys and two girls in the Under 14 Divisions, will compete on specially-constructed lanes in Vanderbilt Hall inside New York City's Grand Central Station starting Wednesday.
A record-setting performance by Tristan Musick (pictured left) highlighted the 2011 United States Bowling Congress Youth Open, which wrapped up competition on Sunday at South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas. Musick, of Olathe, Kan., who was competing in his first USBC Youth Open, had games 256, 248 and 299 for an 803 series during singles competition on July 8. It was the first 800 series rolled in the history of the USBC Youth Open, which started in 2007. More than 2,000 USBC Youth members participated in the tournament. 
The week started with 1,648 of the top youth bowlers in the country and now the field has been trimmed to the top 16 boys and top 16 girls for Friday's finals at the 2011 United States Bowling Congress Junior Gold Championships presented by Brunswick. With 16 games remaining, Gary Faulkner (l.) of Memphis, Tenn., took a commanding lead in the boys division, while Holly Harris (r.) of Long Prairie, Minn., holds a slim lead in the girls division at Sunset Station's Strike Zone Bowling Center.
With qualifying wrapping up Wednesday at the 2011 USBC Junior Gold Championships presented by Brunswick, the pressure was on for players to make the first cut into the semifinals. One of the players outside of the cut number coming into the day was Team USA and Junior Team USA member Scott Boyle (pictured) of Salida, Calif. Boyle entered the final round of qualifying in 181st place. The top 144 (plus ties) make the cut in the boys division, while the top 72 (plus ties) advance for the girls.
Zack Hattori (pictured) of Las Vegas proved he was one of the top youth bowlers in the country last year by finishing ninth at the USBC Junior Gold Championships. This year, he brings that confidence along with the fact the event is in his hometown. The 18-year-old recent graduate of Silverado High School has taken full advantage of the event being in his stomping grounds. He is among 1,648 USBC Youth bowlers competing in the Las Vegas area this week.
Last year, Marshall Kent (pictured left) of Yakima, Wash., entered the USBC Junior Gold Championships having never made the first cut. This year, he enters not only as the defending champion but as one of the most well-known youth bowlers in the country. Kent will once again have a large field standing in his way this year, as more than 1,700 USBC Youth bowlers from across the country are expected to descend upon three of the Las Vegas area's biggest bowling centers.
Eight of the top youth bowlers in the United States will travel to the Dominican Republic in July to represent Junior Team USA at the 2011 PABCON Youth Championships. The event will be held in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from July 16-23 and features countries in the American Zone competing in Singles, Doubles, Trios, Team, All-Events and match-play Masters.
