Stephanie Zavala (born May 29, 1996) is a right-handed American professional
ten-pin bowler from
Downey, California
Downey is a city located in Southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States, southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is considered part of the Gateway Cities. The city is the birthplace of the Apollo space program. It is also the home ...
,
known for winning the 2022
PWBA Tour Championship.
She bowls professionally on the
Professional Women's Bowling Association
The Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) organizes and oversees a series of annual tournaments for the top competitive women ten-pin bowlers. The series is often referred to as the "women's tour" of bowling.
The PWBA was formed in 1960 ...
(PWBA) Tour, and has bowled internationally as a multi-year and current member of Team USA.
Zavala is a member of the
900 Global pro staff. She is also sponsored by VISE grips, BowlerX.com and Coolwick Sportswear.
Amateur career
Zavala finished runner-up to Julia Bond in the 2017 U.S. Amateur Championships. She bowled collegiately for Sam Houston State University from 2014 through 2018, and was an honorable mention All-American for the 2017–18 season.[
At a July 7, 2019 session in her Mexican-American Bowlers Association league at Del Rio Lanes in Downey, California, Zavala rolled games of 279, 300 and 280 for a house-record 859 series. The series was the highest recorded by any female bowler in 2019 across the entire ]United States Bowling Congress
The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States. It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress—the original codifier of all tenpin bowling stand ...
.[ She won a team gold medal with Team USA at the 2022 PANAM Bowling Women's Championships.][
]
Professional career
Zavala joined the PWBA Tour in the 2021 season. She had immediate success, making six championship round appearances (tied for first), winning three titles (also tied for first), and earning PWBA Rookie of the Year honors. She became the first PWBA Tour rookie to win three titles since Leanne Barrette
Leanne Barrette-Hulsenberg (born August 18, 1967), from Roseville, California and currently of North Ogden, Utah, was one of the top female professional bowlers on the Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) Tour. In a career ...
in 1987.[
After some early struggles in the 2022 season, Zavala won the season's final event, the PWBA Tour Championship, for her fourth PWBA title and first major. She won in dominating fashion, averaging 250.67 over her three stepladder matches.
On June 4, 2023, Zavala won her fifth PWBA Tour title at the BowlTV Classic in ]Wyoming, Michigan
Wyoming is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 76,501 at the 2020 census. Wyoming is the second most-populated community in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is bordered by Grand Rapids on the northeas ...
.
PWBA Tour wins
Major championships are in bold text.
#2021 PWBA Greater Cleveland Open (Parma Heights, OH
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)
#2021 PWBA BVL Open (Farmingdale, NY
Farmingdale is an incorporated village on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. The population was 8,189 as of the 2010 Census.
The Lenox Hills neighborhood is adjacent to Bethpage State Park and the rest of t ...
)
#2021 PWBA Reno Classic (Reno, NV
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the ...
)
#2022 PWBA Tour Championship (Dallas, TX
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County wi ...
)
#2023 PWBA BowlTV Classic ( Wyoming, MI)
Personal
Stephanie is a Southern California native and the daughter of Estela and Armando Zavala.[
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References
American ten-pin bowling players
1996 births
Living people
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