Over seventy international medals. Fifteen straight years on Team USA. Three halls of fame. I started bowling at five. Here's everything that happened next.
The full record runs longer. These are the moments that defined the career.
The first one came at twenty-five, before I'd won the title I'd one day chase the longest. Two decades later, two more would follow.
Proof that the work compounds in ways you can't see while you're inside it. It's the same lesson I bring to my clients today.
From the 2023 USBC Hall of Fame induction in Las Vegas, the speech, the family, and what it meant to walk back into a room I'd only ever competed in.
The headlines compressed into a single timeline. Sixteen years on the highest stage and a second career built on the back of it.
August 2, 1980. Started bowling at five.
First USBC Team USA selection, the start of fifteen straight years (1999–2013).
Full athletic scholarship, two collegiate national titles, eventual Advertising degree (2003).
U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year. Collegiate Player of the Year. Top-Ten finalist, Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year.
Two world records broken in a single tournament. Second USOC Athlete of the Year. Gold at the Tournament of the Americas. Joined the USBC Board of Directors.
The Moscow Masters title, the photograph that lived on the front of the federation site for a decade.
The first of three Hall of Fame inductions. The youngest of the year's class.
Won the QubicaAMF World Cup, the flagship singles championship in international bowling. Also won the Malaysian Open and BCM's Businessperson of the Year.
Pan American Games Gold (Doubles + All-Events). World Ranking Masters title. The peak season of the career.
PBA Women's Series Don & Paula Carter Mixed Doubles, $25,000.
The biggest women's championship in U.S. bowling. Founded Elite Youth Tour the same year.
The end of the fifteen-straight-year run. The start of the next chapter.
The mindset coaching brand built on twenty years of competing at the highest level, the next chapter, in my own words.
Elected November 2022. Officially inducted April 26, 2023, the second of three Hall of Fame inductions. Watch the speech →
Inducted back into the school where the college career, and a national title, started.
Today: leading Beyond the Lanes mindset coaching, running Elite Youth Tour, and launching Striking Showcase, the recruiting platform connecting youth bowlers with college coaches.
The medals are the visible part of the career. These are the things I've built around them (the orgs, the columns, the board seats, the brand work) that shape what I bring to my clients today.
I've sat on every side of this sport. I bring all of it to the work.
Mindset coaching for bowlers, parents, and coaches. The brand built on twenty years of competing at the highest level.
A recruiting platform connecting youth bowlers with college coaches scouting them.
The youth bowling tour I built so the next generation has somewhere to grow up competing.
Founded and ran a women's bowling apparel line, the first of its kind in the women's competitive game.
Long-form writing on the sport for the longest-running bowling publication in the world.
Four years on the board of the United States Bowling Congress, the national governing body of the sport.
Long-running advice column for the magazine that ran every youth bowler in the country.
National network shows, magazine covers, and the longest-running bowling publications in the world.
I'm based in Chicago with my husband and our two kids. I started competing at five and never really stopped. I just kept finding new ways to be useful to this sport.
"Be unapologetically kind. Be bold. Be authentically you. Follow Through."
Everything above this (the medals, the halls, the years on Team USA), it matters. But it was never the thing.
This is the thing. My husband, our two kids, home in Chicago: the ordinary nights no scoreboard will ever record.
That's the real beyond the lanes, and it's the whole reason I teach what I teach.
Bowlers, parents, and coaches who refuse to mistake the scoreboard for the score that matters.