On Monday evening, Jan. 24th, 2011, three Webber International Unversity bowlers broke the Guinness World Record for Most Strikes in One Minute held by legendary Swedish bowler Tomas Leandersson (6) since 2001. Kristis Sergejevas of Lithuania and Brazilian national team member Marcelo Suartz managed seven strikes at Kegel Training Center in Lake Wales, Fla., before Floridian Colin Champion, a 117 lb. freshman, rolled eight strikes within one minute. The record was now officially approved by Guinness World Record Ltd.
The Wichita State women dominated the match-play portion of the McKendree Baker Challenge, earning them a fourth consecutive title and a fifth win for the season. This year the tournament took place in two locations – St. Clair Bowl in Fairview Heights, Ill., where the men competed and Bel-Air Bowl in Belleville, Ill., where the women competed. This was the eighth tournament of the season for the Shocker men and women.
Kegel Training Center has announced that Del Warren, the current Vice President of the training center, will be the new Webber International men's head coach effective immediately. Warren is a USBC Gold level coach and has been the head of the Webber bowling program since its inception in 2008. Last season, the men finished as a finalist at the USBC Intercollegiate
Team Championships and are currently ranked 7th in the power rankings. 
In the largest NCAA women's bowling tournament in the country, the
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) rallied from a slow start to capture the crown and with it their first event win of the season. The Hawks used a masterful day three to beat No. 2 Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) twice to take the title. In just her second tournament as head coach, Kristina Frahm, pushed UMES from a slow day one start to finish second and set up a title run on the final day.
Sharon Brummell (pictured), one of the most successful collegiate bowling coaches ever in the sport, is retiring from coaching and with it leaving her position as Associate Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Brummell has tenured her resignation to become the Associate Athletics Director for
Business and Finance and Senior Woman Administrator at Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C.
The 2012 United States Bowling Congress Intercollegiate Singles Championships will have a new format and be held in conjunction with USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships at Sun Valley Lanes in Lincoln, Neb. The singles event will take place April 17; team competition begins April 19.
The new one-day format will consist of six games of qualifying followed by head-to-head match play. The match-play portion will feature three-game total pinfall matches.
The Wichita States University Shocker bowling team competed in its first Tier I tournament of the season from Nov. 25-26. The women claimed their first title at the 34th National Collegiate Team Match Games while the men earned a respectable third place finish. With a new tournament director, National Collegiate Team Match Games found itself with an altered tournament format. In keeping with the tournament's long stating tradition, the tournament still adhered to the Barnhart Match Play system.
The 43rd Annual Backhaul Direct Hoosier Classic, presented by Columbia 300, is expecting a 130 team "sellout" based on a full field of 78 men's teams and 52 women's teams. All teams entered, in both divisions, represent the "varsity team" for each program. The tournament, held on February 18-19, 2012 at Western Bowl in Indianapolis, is the most sought-after regular season title of the collegiate season. The top 12 teams in the men's division and top eight teams in the women's division will advance to the bracket finals. 
The William Penn University men's team and the women from Robert Morris University Illinois claimed the varsity team titles in the ISBPA/Kegel Collegiate Classic which was held Oct 22-23 at Stardust Lanes in Addison, Ill. The Statesmen (l.) defeated Lindenwood in the title match, 431-394, while the Illinois women topped Robert Morris-Peoria, 398-359. 
The United States Bowling Congress once again will provide free live broadcasts on BOWL.com of major college bowling events throughout the 2011-12 season. It will mark the third consecutive season that bowling fans will be able to watch regular-season college events on BOWL.com. The action kicks off Oct. 22 with a special event at the International Training and Research Center.
Leann Eimermann, a former Warhawk, has been named head women's bowling coach at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Eimermann was captain of the Warhawk team that earned a berth in the 2010 United States Bowling Congress national tournament. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration, with a major in marketing. She was a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee at UW-W. The UW-Whitewater women's bowling team will make its debut under
Eimermann October 22-23 at the ISBPA/Kegel Classic in Addison, Illinois.
Kristina Frahm of Oswego, Ill., who helped the University of Maryland Eastern Shore win a pair of NCAA Women’s Bowling Championships and a USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships title as part of her four-year reign as a collegiate All-American, has been selected as winner of the Professional Bowler Association’s 2011 Billy Welu Scholarship. Frahm, who recently graduated from Maryland Eastern Shore with a 3.955 grade point average in earning her degree in accounting, is headed to Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md., this fall in pursuit of her MBA. 
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has announced that the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's (UMES) Kristina Frahm (pictured) of Oswego, Ill. was named the 2011 MEAC Woman of the Year. Frahm will be awarded the honor during the annual MEAC Football Press
Luncheon on Friday, July 29 in
Norfolk, Virginia. The award, selected annually by the MEAC Senior Woman Administrators, celebrates the achievements of female senior student-athletes who have excelled in academics, athletics, service and leadership.