The Michigan Junior Masters Association’s annual Adult – Junior tournament was recently held at Airpot Lanes in Jackson, Michigan. This annual event brings our youth members together with an adult partner to see who can conquer the field and reign supreme for the upcoming year. This year we had 102 teams looking to become the next champion and the competition was very exciting all the way through.

Twenty-four male teams and eight female teams advanced from the six game qualifying session on Saturday to go head to head on Sunday. Aaron Ohl (Ann Arbor, MI) and Ron Ellis (Willis, MI) led the way on the guy’s side shooting a fine 2711 for their qualifying games while Kara Richard (Tecumseh, MI) and Christine Bator (Warren, MI) led the girl’s with 2662. The scores were pretty high compared to our normal events due to the fact we were using a slightly modified house pattern for the weekend.

Here you will find listed the names of individuals who won each MJMA tournament dating back to the MJMA's inception. Both attached documents approach this differently.

• Title Holders: Lists each bowler by name in order of the number of tournaments they've (ever) won, starting with those possessing the highest number of wins.
• Tournament Winners: Lists each individual event chronologically, with the location of the event followed by the name of each bowler winning the boys/girls division.

Micheal Van Peeren (Wyandotte, MI) won his very first Michigan Junior Masters Title and Carrie Hopkinson (Drumbo, Ontario) won her first singles title at the Turbo 2-N-1 Sports Challenge event held on December 12-13 at Sunnybrook Lanes in Sterling Heights, MI.

Turbo 2-N-1 sponsored the event and added an additional $1,000.00 into the scholarship fund for the event and held a pre-torunament clinic for the bowlers. Lou Marquez and Carolyn Dorin-Ballard co-hosted the clinic as nearly 80 bowlers attended the event.

In what proved to be a very competitive and entertaining weekend, the 15th Annual Michigan Junior Masters Association Greater Lansing Open produced our first back-to-back winner of the season and another first-time champion. Samantha Johnson (Wyoming, MI) won her second MJMA title and the first female to win back-toback events since Bethan McGeary (New Kensington, PA) accomplished the feat back in 2007 while Aaron Lorincz (Belleville, MI) solidified his points lead with his first ever MJMA win.

Royal Scot Lanes and the Kwiecien family once again played host to the annual trek to Lansing, Michigan and this year a field of 146 bowlers, including 40 female bowlers, marched in to try and conquer the challenging conditions that awaitied them. The 40 female bowlers was the largest female field in recent history and also meant that the ladies match-play on Sunday would consist of 12 bowlers vying for the title.

Over the weekend of November 15th, 2008, Royal Scot Lanes in Lansing played host to a Michigan Junior Masters Association event that officially changed the culture of this tournament organization as we know it. The lane conditions that weekend were especially brutal, even by MJMA’s tough standards. The amalgamation of emotions on all sides, from parents and guests to board members and bowlers, lead us all to this point.

And so we present MJMA’s brand new Coach’s Corner feature - a quick and dirty interpretation of the last event’s lane conditions, how they should have been attacked, and with what kinds of equipment (all of this through the eyes of one humble adult board member).