Lowe: Saturday’s Storm Youth Championship worth the entry fee and more

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It appeared to be the normal pre-tournament setup, but with a little different look Thursday before the start of Saturday’s Storm Youth Championship Louisiana event at All Star Lanes in Baton Rouge.

First of all, the meeting room at the 64-lane center was noticeably packed with Storm bowling balls and products each bowler receives. That meant more than 170 balls that this field from 25 states will have picked up upon registration for this 15-game scholarship event.

And, right in the middle of it, packing swag bags was USBC and PWBA Hall of Famer and tournament host Leanne Hulsenberg. The holder of 27 professional titles and two majors, including a U.S. Open win on specially constructed lanes at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Hulsenberg is doing her part to give back to a sport she dearly loves.

“When I was inducted into the Hall of Fame,” Hulsenberg said, “I was writing my speech and I realized that everything I have in my life, like all the people I wanted to thank, were because of bowling. So, everything in my whole life, my husband, my job, my career was from bowling, and that’s really when I realized that I wanted to give back to the sport that provided me so much.”

Her husband, Gary, is director of marketing for Storm Bowling, and Leanne, whose pro wins include a tour stop in Alexandria in 1994, also works for the company.

This monthly event, which opened its 2023 season in Las Vegas in February, will move to New York in April and onward to places like Indianapolis, Louisville, Kentucky, and more this year, started with a couple of tournaments in 2017 and eventually reached nine stops. A local family, the Yoches, bowling in another SYC event, suggested Louisiana might be the spot to bring the show and so to All Star comes one of the biggest and most important youth bowling events our state has seen.

“(The tournaments) are consistent. They run on time. People know what to expect,” Hulsenberg said. “There’s good value because the entry includes a bowling ball, so if you don’t bowl good or earn a scholarship you get a $200 bowling ball with your entry so the value of our entry is really good.”

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