Thursday, March 21
Harahan, Louisiana
Tulane University
vs
Conference USA
No. 13 Bowling Hosts the CUSA Championships This Week
Mar 20, 2024 | Women's Bowling
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New Orleans – The No. 13 ranked Tulane University bowling team returns home to host the inaugural CUSA Bowling Championships this week at Colonial Lanes in Harahan. The tournament goes from March 21-24. All the matches will be shown live on ESPN+ (just search CUSA). Tulane, as the eighth seed, will start play on opening day at 10:30 a.m. against No. 9 seed Valparaiso in a play-in/elimination match.
The first day, Thursday, only features a play-in match starting at 10:30 a.m. between the 8-seed Tulane and the 9-seed Valparaiso in Round 1. The second day on Friday is when double elimination play begins with Round 2 and matches 2-5 beginning at 9 a.m. With a victory over Valparaiso on Thursday, Tulane will then square off against No. 1 seed Jacksonville State in lanes 5-6 on Friday. Round 3 features matches 6-9 at 2 p.m. later that afternoon. A Tulane victory against Jacksonville State keeps the team on the winning side of the bracket and the program will square off with the winner of No. 4 seed Vanderbilt and No. 5 seed Louisiana Tech in the eighth match on lanes 11-12. A loss to Jacksonville State puts Tulane in the Contender's side of the bracket against the loser of Vanderbilt and Louisiana Tech in the sixth match in lanes 19-20 at 2 p.m. in an elimination contest. Round 4 of the tournament starts at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday with matches 10-11. Round 5 features matches 12-13 at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Sunday starts with Round 6 and match 14 at 9 a.m. The CUSA Championship will be contested in match 15 at a to be determined time on Sunday. The if necessary Second Championship match (match 16) will follow later that afternoon.
The CUSA Bowling Championships is a nine-team, double-elimination tournament with the winner getting the conference's automatic berth into the NCAAs. In the best of three match format, teams will bowl one standard five-person game for total pinfall, then five baker games for total pinfall. If one team wins both the traditional match and the baker match, they advance. If both teams split the standard and baker matches, they will move on to a best-of-seven series of baker games. If necessary, the second championship match on Sunday will be a Baker Best of Seven match play only.
CUSA Bowling Championships Format
1) Match 1: Five-person team match
2) Match 2: Baker Total Pinfalls
3) Match 3: Baker Best of Seven Match play (if necessary)
Each game is scored as a cumulative total pinfall game. All scores shall be recorded on a scratch (no bonus) basis. Scores shall be recorded on a scoresheet in plain view of opposing players. All final game scores shall be recorded on the NCAA Score Reporting Form.
The All-Tournament team selection process will be coordinated by the Communications staff. Each head coach will nominate up to five student-athletes from his/her institution. Head coaches will select the All-Tournament team by voting for six individuals. Coaches are precluded from voting for next institution's student-athletes. The top vote recipient shall be the Most Valuable Bowler while the next five top vote recipients will be named to the All-Tournament Team.
CUSA is in its first year of sponsoring the sport of bowling as a conference. All nine teams in CUSA are competing in the tournament.
CUSA Seedings (National Ranking)
1 – Jacksonville State (1)
2 – Arkansas State (2)
3 – Youngstown State (3)
4 – Vanderbilt (4)
5 – Louisiana Tech (7)
6 – Sam Houston State (10)
7 – Stephen F. Austin (11)
8 – Tulane (13)
9 – Valparaiso (17)
This is the fourth time that Tulane has been selected to host a bowling conference championship as the program was the host institution for the 2016 Southland Bowling League Championship (Kenner), the 2021 Southland Bowling League Championship (Harahan) and the 2022 Southland Bowling League Championship (Harahan).
Overall this will be the 15th time that Tulane has served as the host institution of a regular season or conference tournament as the program hosted the 2012 Tulane Collegiate Bowl, the 2013 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2014 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2015 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2016 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2016 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2017 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2019 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2021 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2021 Colonial Lanes Classic, the 2022 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2022 Colonial Lanes Classic and the 2023 Colonial Lanes Classic.
This will be the eighth tournament that Tulane has hosted at Colonial Lanes as the program previously hosted the 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2019 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2021 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2021 Colonial Lanes Classic, the 2022 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2022 Colonial Lanes Classic and the 2023 Colonial Lanes Classic.
Six of the conference's nine programs were part of the 2023 NCAA Championship, including the national champion, Vanderbilt, and the national runner-up, Arkansas State. Dating back to 2014, this group of institutions has won five of the past nine national championships (Stephen F. Austin in 2016 and 2019, Vanderbilt in 2018 and 2023 and Sam Houston in 2014).
Bowling has been an NCAA-sponsored sport since the 2003-04 season, with the first NCAA Championship taking place in 2004.
Considered one of the NCAA's winter sports, Women's Bowling's season runs from October through the end of March. The NCAA Championship is held in April, and each NCAA program must bowl a minimum of 15 dates to be eligible for the NCAA Championship.
In NCAA Bowling, programs from all classifications compete together for one championship each year. Seventeen teams, nine automatic qualifiers and eight at-large selections, are chosen by the NCAA Bowling Committee to compete in the Championship.
The field is split into five regions, competing at predetermined sites; each of the top four seeds, as chosen by the NCAA selection committee, is placed in a separate regional. Each regional is played as a double-elimination tournament.
All regional matches, except for what the NCAA calls "if necessary regional finals", are best-of-three matches bowled in the following order: five-person team, Baker total pinfall, Baker best-of-seven match play. Any "if necessary regional final" will be Baker best-of-seven.
Regional winners advance to the championship event, which will also be double-elimination. All matches are bowled under the standard format for regionals (best-of-three matches using specified formats in a specific order) except the championship final, which will be Baker best-of-seven.
Thursday, 10:30 a.m. – Round 1: Play-in Match 1 (8-seed vs. 9-seed)
Friday, 9 a.m. – Round 2: Matches 2—5
Friday, 2:30 p.m. – Round 3: Matches 6-9
Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Round 4: Matches 10-11
Saturday, 2:30 p.m. – Round 5: Matches 12-13
Sunday, 9 a.m.– Round 6: Match 14
Sunday, TBA- Match 15 (Championship Match)
Sunday, TBA- Match 16 (If Necessary Championship Match)
The first-place team will receive a trophy at the championship, as well as Individual Awards for each champion team member (the second-place award will be sent directly to campus)
Last time out at the Music City Classic from March 15-17 in Nashville, Tenn, the program finished 11th overall of 33 teams and totaled 12,516 pins over the course of the three days. Kristen Derr was the team's highest finisher in 21st place with 1022 pins and her average of 204.40.
On the season, Derr has the team's most pins at 10,337 and average at 202.6. Derr also has the highest game on the squad as she rolled a 280 at the Stormin' Blue and White Classic.
Tulane enters the tournament ranked No. 14 in the latest released RPI by the NCAA with an overall mark of 62-41 (.602)
This year's Tulane roster features six returners in Morgan Gitlitz, Yarelis Alvarez, Sofiia Druchyna, Katharina Mente, Mia Stolakis, Cassidy Williams plus four newcomers in Juanelyz Solla, Emma Fetterman, Kristen Derr and Linnea Holcomb. Stolakis became the first Tulane bowler to ever qualify for the Junior USA Team with her performance at US Team Trials from Jan. 2-7.
At the ITC Sectional Qualifier from March 8-10 in Fort Worth, Texas, the program finished third overall to earn a place at the USBC ITC National Tournament from April 18-20. Tulane ended up totaling 12,450 pins over the course of the two days and 64 games of the event to finish tied for third along with Oklahoma Christian among the 16 schools competing in the Fort Worth Sectional. By finishing in a tie for third overall in the Fort Worth Sectional, Tulane earned the bid to compete at the ITC National Tournament at Kingpin Lanes in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The event will also feature the ITC Singles Championships, which Morgan Gitlitz qualified for by placing fourth among the individuals on Friday, from April 16-20. Gitlitz recorded 1312 pins to earn fourth and advance out of the sectionals.
Following this week's action, depending on the finish at the CUSA Bowling Championships, the team will either head to NCAA Regionals from April 8-9 or go off to the USBC Intercollegiate Team/Singles Championships in Jeffersontown, Kentucky from April 16-20.
TICKETS
Tickets for the 2023-24 baseball and upcoming football campaigns can be purchased by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283), logging on to TulaneTix.com or visiting the ticket office at the James W. Wilson Jr. Center.
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New Orleans – The No. 13 ranked Tulane University bowling team returns home to host the inaugural CUSA Bowling Championships this week at Colonial Lanes in Harahan. The tournament goes from March 21-24. All the matches will be shown live on ESPN+ (just search CUSA). Tulane, as the eighth seed, will start play on opening day at 10:30 a.m. against No. 9 seed Valparaiso in a play-in/elimination match.
The first day, Thursday, only features a play-in match starting at 10:30 a.m. between the 8-seed Tulane and the 9-seed Valparaiso in Round 1. The second day on Friday is when double elimination play begins with Round 2 and matches 2-5 beginning at 9 a.m. With a victory over Valparaiso on Thursday, Tulane will then square off against No. 1 seed Jacksonville State in lanes 5-6 on Friday. Round 3 features matches 6-9 at 2 p.m. later that afternoon. A Tulane victory against Jacksonville State keeps the team on the winning side of the bracket and the program will square off with the winner of No. 4 seed Vanderbilt and No. 5 seed Louisiana Tech in the eighth match on lanes 11-12. A loss to Jacksonville State puts Tulane in the Contender's side of the bracket against the loser of Vanderbilt and Louisiana Tech in the sixth match in lanes 19-20 at 2 p.m. in an elimination contest. Round 4 of the tournament starts at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday with matches 10-11. Round 5 features matches 12-13 at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Sunday starts with Round 6 and match 14 at 9 a.m. The CUSA Championship will be contested in match 15 at a to be determined time on Sunday. The if necessary Second Championship match (match 16) will follow later that afternoon.
The CUSA Bowling Championships is a nine-team, double-elimination tournament with the winner getting the conference's automatic berth into the NCAAs. In the best of three match format, teams will bowl one standard five-person game for total pinfall, then five baker games for total pinfall. If one team wins both the traditional match and the baker match, they advance. If both teams split the standard and baker matches, they will move on to a best-of-seven series of baker games. If necessary, the second championship match on Sunday will be a Baker Best of Seven match play only.
CUSA Bowling Championships Format
1) Match 1: Five-person team match
2) Match 2: Baker Total Pinfalls
3) Match 3: Baker Best of Seven Match play (if necessary)
Each game is scored as a cumulative total pinfall game. All scores shall be recorded on a scratch (no bonus) basis. Scores shall be recorded on a scoresheet in plain view of opposing players. All final game scores shall be recorded on the NCAA Score Reporting Form.
The All-Tournament team selection process will be coordinated by the Communications staff. Each head coach will nominate up to five student-athletes from his/her institution. Head coaches will select the All-Tournament team by voting for six individuals. Coaches are precluded from voting for next institution's student-athletes. The top vote recipient shall be the Most Valuable Bowler while the next five top vote recipients will be named to the All-Tournament Team.
CUSA is in its first year of sponsoring the sport of bowling as a conference. All nine teams in CUSA are competing in the tournament.
CUSA Seedings (National Ranking)
1 – Jacksonville State (1)
2 – Arkansas State (2)
3 – Youngstown State (3)
4 – Vanderbilt (4)
5 – Louisiana Tech (7)
6 – Sam Houston State (10)
7 – Stephen F. Austin (11)
8 – Tulane (13)
9 – Valparaiso (17)
This is the fourth time that Tulane has been selected to host a bowling conference championship as the program was the host institution for the 2016 Southland Bowling League Championship (Kenner), the 2021 Southland Bowling League Championship (Harahan) and the 2022 Southland Bowling League Championship (Harahan).
Overall this will be the 15th time that Tulane has served as the host institution of a regular season or conference tournament as the program hosted the 2012 Tulane Collegiate Bowl, the 2013 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2014 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2015 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2016 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2016 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2017 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2019 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2021 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2021 Colonial Lanes Classic, the 2022 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2022 Colonial Lanes Classic and the 2023 Colonial Lanes Classic.
This will be the eighth tournament that Tulane has hosted at Colonial Lanes as the program previously hosted the 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2019 Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Bowl, the 2021 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2021 Colonial Lanes Classic, the 2022 Southland Bowling League Championship, the 2022 Colonial Lanes Classic and the 2023 Colonial Lanes Classic.
Six of the conference's nine programs were part of the 2023 NCAA Championship, including the national champion, Vanderbilt, and the national runner-up, Arkansas State. Dating back to 2014, this group of institutions has won five of the past nine national championships (Stephen F. Austin in 2016 and 2019, Vanderbilt in 2018 and 2023 and Sam Houston in 2014).
Bowling has been an NCAA-sponsored sport since the 2003-04 season, with the first NCAA Championship taking place in 2004.
Considered one of the NCAA's winter sports, Women's Bowling's season runs from October through the end of March. The NCAA Championship is held in April, and each NCAA program must bowl a minimum of 15 dates to be eligible for the NCAA Championship.
In NCAA Bowling, programs from all classifications compete together for one championship each year. Seventeen teams, nine automatic qualifiers and eight at-large selections, are chosen by the NCAA Bowling Committee to compete in the Championship.
The field is split into five regions, competing at predetermined sites; each of the top four seeds, as chosen by the NCAA selection committee, is placed in a separate regional. Each regional is played as a double-elimination tournament.
All regional matches, except for what the NCAA calls "if necessary regional finals", are best-of-three matches bowled in the following order: five-person team, Baker total pinfall, Baker best-of-seven match play. Any "if necessary regional final" will be Baker best-of-seven.
Regional winners advance to the championship event, which will also be double-elimination. All matches are bowled under the standard format for regionals (best-of-three matches using specified formats in a specific order) except the championship final, which will be Baker best-of-seven.
Thursday, 10:30 a.m. – Round 1: Play-in Match 1 (8-seed vs. 9-seed)
Friday, 9 a.m. – Round 2: Matches 2—5
Friday, 2:30 p.m. – Round 3: Matches 6-9
Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Round 4: Matches 10-11
Saturday, 2:30 p.m. – Round 5: Matches 12-13
Sunday, 9 a.m.– Round 6: Match 14
Sunday, TBA- Match 15 (Championship Match)
Sunday, TBA- Match 16 (If Necessary Championship Match)
The first-place team will receive a trophy at the championship, as well as Individual Awards for each champion team member (the second-place award will be sent directly to campus)
Last time out at the Music City Classic from March 15-17 in Nashville, Tenn, the program finished 11th overall of 33 teams and totaled 12,516 pins over the course of the three days. Kristen Derr was the team's highest finisher in 21st place with 1022 pins and her average of 204.40.
On the season, Derr has the team's most pins at 10,337 and average at 202.6. Derr also has the highest game on the squad as she rolled a 280 at the Stormin' Blue and White Classic.
Tulane enters the tournament ranked No. 14 in the latest released RPI by the NCAA with an overall mark of 62-41 (.602)
This year's Tulane roster features six returners in Morgan Gitlitz, Yarelis Alvarez, Sofiia Druchyna, Katharina Mente, Mia Stolakis, Cassidy Williams plus four newcomers in Juanelyz Solla, Emma Fetterman, Kristen Derr and Linnea Holcomb. Stolakis became the first Tulane bowler to ever qualify for the Junior USA Team with her performance at US Team Trials from Jan. 2-7.
At the ITC Sectional Qualifier from March 8-10 in Fort Worth, Texas, the program finished third overall to earn a place at the USBC ITC National Tournament from April 18-20. Tulane ended up totaling 12,450 pins over the course of the two days and 64 games of the event to finish tied for third along with Oklahoma Christian among the 16 schools competing in the Fort Worth Sectional. By finishing in a tie for third overall in the Fort Worth Sectional, Tulane earned the bid to compete at the ITC National Tournament at Kingpin Lanes in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The event will also feature the ITC Singles Championships, which Morgan Gitlitz qualified for by placing fourth among the individuals on Friday, from April 16-20. Gitlitz recorded 1312 pins to earn fourth and advance out of the sectionals.
Following this week's action, depending on the finish at the CUSA Bowling Championships, the team will either head to NCAA Regionals from April 8-9 or go off to the USBC Intercollegiate Team/Singles Championships in Jeffersontown, Kentucky from April 16-20.
TICKETS
Tickets for the 2023-24 baseball and upcoming football campaigns can be purchased by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283), logging on to TulaneTix.com or visiting the ticket office at the James W. Wilson Jr. Center.
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Follow Tulane bowling on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. Follow Tulane Athletics on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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WE ARE NOLA BUILT
Tulane University is located in the city of New Orleans. It is a city built on tradition and resiliency. The lessons Green Wave student-athletes have learned through their connection with this university and city have BUILT doctors, lawyers, business leaders, conference champions, all-conference players, All-Americans, professional athletes and NCAA tournament teams. The city of New Orleans has shaped us into who we are today. We are One City. We are Tulane. We are NOLA BUILT. Check out our story at NolaBuilt.com.
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