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Behind the Medals: What Really Matters
At the end of every year, there’s a natural pause. The noise fades. The scoreboards stop flashing. And you’re left alone with the question that...
Permission to Be a Work in Progress
As the year comes to a close, I always feel this subtle pressure to arrive somewhere. To have answers. To be clearer. To be more put together than I...
The 5 Frames That Shaped My Year
The older I get, the more the calendar feels less like a clock and more like a score sheet. Little boxes holding big lessons. Five frames, five...
Before the Year Ends, Let’s Remember This
Before the clock runs out on another year, I always find myself returning to the same quiet place. A place where the noise softens, where the lists...
A Thanksgiving Letter: Thank You, Bowling
If I were to write a thank-you letter this Thanksgiving, it wouldn’t be to a person. It would be to my beloved sport. To the thing that has shaped...
Feeling Lucky
Busy seasons have a way of pulling us off center—holidays, travel, pressure, expectations, all the noise that creeps in around the edges. And yet,...
What My Kids Taught Me About Confidence and Joy
Parenting keeps handing me the same quiet reminder: confidence and joy are choices we make in the middle of real life. Not when everything is neatly...
The Champion’s Secret: Staying Grounded When Life Gets Loud
The world has a way of getting loud. Not just the kind of loud you can hear, but the kind that fills your head and heart until you can’t tell what’s...
The Hall of Fame Decision
As I prepare to step into the University of Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, I’m full of all the feels. Reflection has hit me hard this...
About Me
Diandra grew up in a small town in Indiana. She was the epitome of “small town girl” BIG DREAMS. When she was 12 years old she knew she wanted to be one of the best bowlers in the world one day. And so she did. She was the 3x World Bowler of the Year and was even inducted into the World Bowling Hall of Fame at 25.
Getting to the top wasn’t all about the expertise she learned on the lanes. It was also about the values, and principles she learned Beyond the Lanes that would get her to the very tip-top of her sport.