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BUSINESS
‘Title Town’ Selected to Host
Junior Gold Championships
he Junior Gold Cham-
T pionships could not
have a more appropri-
ate host city than the
Wisconsin community
of Green Bay for its
2025 renewal.
Junior Gold brings
together youth bowlers
from throughout the country
for high-level competition with
their peers, an opportunity to earn
scholarship dollars and a chance Bowling Alley, host centers for the
to qualify for Junior Team USA. It
provides a venue for rising stars to
shine and storybook tales to unfold. Family Entertainment, Bowlero
And that’s Green Bay in a nut-
shell. With a metro population of
just over 300,000, Green Bay is the
smallest market — by far — in the
National Football league. Yet with
13 NFL championships, it elds
one of the winningest teams in the
league, and certainly one of the
most popular. As Bloomberg has
pointed out, by playing David to
the NFL’s Goliaths, Green Bay gives
hope to little people everywhere,
proving that with enough pluck,
skill and determination, anyone can
compete and win at the very highest
levels.
Which brings us back to the 2025
Junior Gold Championships, which
will run July 11-19, and also the 2025
Bowling.com Youth Open Champi-
onships, which will take place July
9-11, 18-20 and 26-27.
Junior Gold week will kick o
with a Product Showcase and trade
show at the Resch Center and Resch
Expo in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.
e traditional opening ceremony
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on July 13 will give up to Sabre Lanes, Buzz Social, Dale’s
10,000 competitors, their Weston Lanes, Revs Bowl Bar and
families and bowling Grill, Riviera Lanes and Rolling
fans the opportunity under Lanes, all BPAA members.
to attend the live TV e 2024 edition of the Junior
nals of the PWBA Gold Championships is ready to roll
Green Bay Open. (All July 12-20 in metro Detroit. Host-
rounds leading up to the ing are 5 Star Lanes, Sterling Lanes,
stepladder nals will be Merri-Bowl Lanes, Oak Lanes, Super
contested at e Ashwaube- Bowl, Skore Lanes, Century Bowl
non Bowling Alley from July 9-12.) and underbowl Lanes.
In addition to e Ashwaubenon
Centers in the Carolinas and
2025 Junior Gold Championships Georgia Host Team Tourney
will include Bowlero Superbowl e 1st “Bring Your A-Team”
Tournament has been unveiled by
the Bowling Propri-
etors Association
of the Carolinas
and Georgia as a
mechanism to drive
summertime busi-
ness. e event is
exclusive to BPACG
member centers
and was created
with the vision to
“bring centers
together for some
fun, good-hearted
competition.” e
entry fee is $300
per team, and each
center is allowed
to bring more than
Storm Products made a $45,000 donation to the one team. Centers
International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame dur- may run qualify-
ing the annual Xtravaganza doubles tournament at ing tournaments
the Red Rock resort in Las Vegas. Here, Storm Presi- to cover the entry
dent Tyler Jensen is anked by museum curator Kari fee and perhaps
Williams and chair Mike Aulby. For an Xtravaganza provide some prize
report and photo album, turn to page 52. money for travel.
e big nale of the
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