The Lower Dauphin bowling team is led by their coach, Brandon Debow.

Debow has been coaching the bowling team for the last three years. When asked why he decided to coach, he said, “to give back the experience and knowledge that I got growing up and give that to the next generation.” There has been a bowling team at Lower Dauphin for the past six years and the last three they have been able to fill a full varsity team. 

Lower Dauphin recently had senior night featuring their four seniors, Caleb Runk, Asher Myers, Connor O’Barr and Nick Patrick. Asher Myers has been on the bowling team for one year. He got into bowling with the help of some of his friends and his favorite memory is when they played with their jerseys for the first time. Myers’s advice for people who are interested is, “if you’re on the fence about it, join, what’s the worst that can happen.”

The team’s high scorer, junior Emily Weaver, explained her favorite memory, scoring a 253, where the maximum is 300, and making her way to districts. She got into bowling when her step dad came from Utah and got the whole family invested. Weaver’s advice is that, “if you’re not that serious about it, it is still something fun to do and you can always improve.”

An interesting fact about bowling is that it was once banned. During the 15th century, it was banned to stop soldiers who were said to be gambling too much. It is now allowed but nine-pin bowling is illegal in every U.S. state except for Texas.

If interested in bowling, there are places all over to practice and have fun. It can be recreational or competitive, the most important thing is to have fun.