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Tables Full, Hearts Fuller: A Holiday Weekend in NYC
This past weekend, I went to New York City with some of my best friends. We’ve been planning this trip the entire year, and if we weren’t...
The Gift of Presence
It’s the holiday season, and everything feels a little more magical and, well, a bit stressful too.. The most important focus is not about the gifts...
Gratitude Beyond the Lanes
It’s Thanksgiving and I have a LOT to be thankful for. My beautiful family. My friends who turned into family, and bowling, who has been my greatest...
Authenticity and Resilience: The Grounded Mindset of a Champion
Staying grounded, to me, means never forgetting where you came from. Growing up in Dyer, Indiana, I learned early on that nothing was handed to me....
The Garage Chronicles: Letters, Love, and Lost Art
I spent this past weekend knee-deep in something I’ve been putting off for way too long—sorting through bins of old memories that have been piling...
Not Seeking Approval
You Can’t Make Everyone Happy – and That’s Okay There’s a quiet kind of freedom in realizing this truth: no matter what you do, not everyone’s going...
Strength in Difference
Before I joined Team USA, I hadn’t really thought deeply about the unique individual contribution I made to a team. Sure, I knew that I contributed...
Virtual Shift
I recently faced a pivotal moment. One of those moments that challenge you to adapt. As you know, I underwent my partial knee replacement surgery on...
Standing Strong
I have a lot of gratitude for my champion knees that carried me countless miles in this life…and propelled me to the #1 podium, over, and over, and...
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.