Bowling With The Fef!

Feftacular V is rapidly approaching. Will we see YOU there? If not, no worries. You can catch the livestream on the Bowling With The Fef! YouTube channel on November 25, 2026. It will be something to see, too. For the first time, the SerbskE$ Club is deploying the "youth movement" on the roster. One of those future stars is a star of both the past and present too. Ashley Oleniczak of Menomonee Fal...

The latest USBC sanctioned 900 series as of July 2026 belongs to a native Texan who is just the second bowler to have that achievement and an eagle from the USBC Open Championships. Dylan Macon of Lubbock scored the eagle win in the team event five years ago. Nowadays, he is the youth director at South Plains Lanes. He hopes the 900 that generated all the excitement in June 2026 serves as a teacha...

One of this area’s young stars on the lanes is making waves in college bowling after her first season at Youngstown State University. Liv Baskin is back home in Elk Mound, WI for the summer after Conference USA All-Rookie Team and NTCA Second Team All-Rookie honors. Her momentum is continuing as she made one of her first nights of summer league magical too! Liv for today…but what’s the story behin...

Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the final major of the PBA Tour season: the PBA World Championship. For Kansas City's Zach Wilkins and several others, it's the title that could wrap up a player of the year season. Wilkins has had a career year in 2026, including a World Series of Bowling where he captured his second PBA Tour title of the season.  It's a two-show format and Wilkins is the seven-seed. He...

A podcaster in Idaho injects a bigger dose of inspiration, hope and overcoming adversity into your ears than most content creators do.   Amanda Moore hosts the show. She  has quite a story of strength and resiliency of her own.   Of course, bowling is a large part of Amanda’s life, and of Reset and Rise to the Unbreakable With Amanda Moore, as a result. Reset and Rise to the Unbreakable With Amand...

Though he revealed his decision days ago, Trae Henrichsmeyer set his sights on the PBA Tour years and years earlier. Henrichsmeyer grew up in Eau Claire, WI. Although he left town to attend Wichita State University two years ago, he has accomplished lots of bowling achievements that nobody in the area can equal.  He has won a PBA Regional event as a non-member, took one of "The Duke" trophies in t...

Ambrose Lucas is coming off a career best season, as he has in each of the four season before this one.  Though he has only been bowling for five years, he's learned to love the sport and improve his game time after time. He recently joined me in the Bowling With The Fef! studio for The Staredown. ----------------------------------------- What’s YOUR bowling story all about?  Tell us! SUBSCRIBE (o...

When the PBA and PBA50 Tours return to Minnesota late this month, it will be one heckuva homecoming for Charlie Tapp. The Minnesota native, now living in Kalamazoo, MI, will compete in the PBA50 World Series of Bowling at AMF Southtown in Bloomington. He and his wife, Marliss, will have just flown back to the midwest from Reno, NV. Marliss is going into the USBC Hall of Fame in the Outstanding USB...

Two McDaniels are even better than one. Especially since there is plenty to talk about in bowling these days: a successful high school season, a new PWBA season and Born to Bowl!   Take a listen as Melanie and Ryan McDaniel get us caught up on all of that! ----------------------------------------- What’s YOUR bowling story all about?  Tell us! SUBSCRIBE (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/c/bowl...

There is nothing quite like a letter of intent signing ceremony, especially when the bowler is talented and the college program is solid. Now take that description and double it! Carter Polenz and Tailen Scheuermann have been high school teamates for years. Now Polenz is headed to Marian University of Fond du Lac, WI and Scheuermann will attend Southern Nazarene University near Oklahoma City.  Thi...

Bowling both adult and youth events was taboo for years. Now, as long as it's singles and both tournament official and bowler commit to that bowler earning either scholarship money or nothing before the start, it's ok for youth bowlers to compete in adult events. That's the opportunity Jayden Kenney of Muskego, WI has right now. He's also making great content for his social media and focusing on b...

Real Experience Bowling is sort of like an empire now, and it’s only growing.  The shammies, with their recognizable Rex logo, are everywhere. I even know of at least one bowler here in western Wisconsin who uses one! But to truly know the story of Real Experience Bowling is to know the story of Theo Johnson.  He’s a bowler who grew up in an area that some would consider upstate New York, moved to...

You've never HEARD the PBA Tour like this. Never seen it quite like this either. How it goes over with the bowling community is something we will have to wait to find out, but it won't be a long wait. The first telecast on The CW with Rick Allen on play-by-play is Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 3 p.m. Wisconsin time. Allen has years of experience in auto racing, and does college sports on The CW. Al...

A college coach…scratch that…a coach who knows a lot about bowling from a nationally-ranked program says it would not be a surprise if he gets the buy-in he needs for a somewhat new, different format of intercollegiate competition to gain some traction. Mark Jeffreys of Southern Nazarene University isn’t taking all the credit for three-period format he’s about to describe to you. He said it origin...

With a 10-1 record in District 10 competition this season, the Wagners High School co-op team is heading toward the end of the regular season with a full head of steam. https://www.wihsbowlclub.com/SRM8/SRM/Reports8/repBvTeamStats.php?id=10 The boys team that includes students from Memorial, Altoona, and Fall Creek High Schools will have a roster next season that looks quite different than in 2025...

It is just about tournament time in the Eau Claire Area USBC in western Wisconsin. Our annual association tournament starts 12 days after the date of this recording.  The team event is at Bowl Winkle’s on Friday January 23 at 6:30 p.m. or Saturday January 31 at 10 a.m. Singles and Doubles is at Wagner’s Lanes on Saturday January 24 at 10 a.m. or Sunday, Feb 1 at 10 a.m.  Registration forms: adobe....

The months ahead are very important for high school seniors in Wisconsin. It’s their last chance to put their best foot forward in the classroom and on the lanes as well. Jack Dysland of Greendale is trying to lead his Greendale Co-op team to a championship while staying in the hunt for an individual title in District One. However, he knows that academics are of the utmost importance this winter a...

Wartburg bowling coach and PWBA competitor Alexis Runk knows a LOT of bowlers, but she says the one who practices the most of all of them is Jace Goedel of St. Francis, MN. Goedel graduated earlier this year, but worked with Alexis and her husband Brandon to step back just a little. He ended up with a collegiate career that no other bowler in program history can match. Now he's back in Minnesota's...

“Tag your favorite podcast in the comments…” the uber powerful JoPo Grips Facebook page told its 13,000 followers in a post last month ( https://www.facebook.com/jopogrips/posts/pfbid0DmMtrfcMLY3YGccXenacVkoyqWTz9BUSfi4oEFKMtY9AxLPT8PRg8C3QafSNeCfdl ).  “Let them know the JoPo Fam wants to hear us!”  I couldn’t argue with that. After all, I wanted to hear them…Michigan’s Jerry Penxa and Jerry Penx...

November 12 is a day bowlers in Neillsville Wisconsin will likely never forget. It’s when Marc McDowell, the PBA champion who is now in his second season of league bowling at Neillsville’s Strike Time Lanes, brought his Eagle trophy celebration to them. McDowell had fired 795 in Baton Rouge, LA to win the singles event at the 2025 USBC Open Championships by two pins ( https://apps.bowl.com/tournam...

The Agent Ong Open hasn’t left the attention of bowlers everywhere, even though the event just happened in October. It was November 2 when Carl Ong announced ( https://www.facebook.com/agentongopen/posts/pfbid02ghhtS3qgTL8b2su3xhYDRGYuTTana8BW6eoLhuG7SggJEW56y7jmZLttxkrKdBFBl ) his tournament is moving out of Arizona for the first time on October 15-18 2026, and into South Point in Las Vegas.  The...

The audio version of a show...about visuals. (sigh) Don't sleep on it! Kevin Hong, who lives near Seattle, tells some GREAT stories to go along with the incredible images he captures in vintage centers all across America and beyond. If you can't help but take a look, check out the video version of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_taGM7WQI Or take a look at Kevin's website and...

She's got the social media following like a pro and the industry partners like a pro but she insists she's not trying to go pro. Sarah Bowls is just about sharing her passion for the sport and having fun along the way. Sarah Rutherford of Sandusky, OH is Sarah Bowls, and her viewership, much like the name many know her by, sort of came to her. Despite her relatively short journey in content creati...

Alec Keplinger is chasing that first PBA Tour title. He finished 29th on the tour in 2025, averaging a touch higher than 216.5 for 325 games.  He also had fourth place finishes in the Mike Aulby Nevada Classic and the Players Championship. When we recorded this episode, the PBA had just announced the television schedule for the ten events with finals airing on the CW network in 2026. Keplinger, of...

During the summer, word started spreading about changes at Bowlero Wauwatosa. They were changes that appeared to have potential impacts on this fall's Junior Hall of Fame Tournament (http://jhoft.weebly.com), which had been held there for many years. Those changes were no match for Tournament Director Shannon Labinski or her spirit. She has been a positive force for junior bowling in the Milwaukee...