Jim King’s Bio

    
      Date of Birth:  01/06/1948
            Bowls with: right hand
            Home: New Braunfels, Tx

           Bowling: Career 300s: 50
                           299s: 23
                           800s:  36(including 288-280-299-867 in 1998-Highest ever by
                                     bowler over 50)
Charter Member of Victoria, TX Bowling Association's Hall of Fame in 1994
City Champion 8 times in four different cities. Sixteen other City Tournament Titles

Jim currently has 15 Senior All Star Association (SASBA) Titles in six states and serves as the tournament director for the SASBA Southwest region

At the Senior FIQ in Reno in 2001, Jim won a Silver Medal in Doubles, a Bronze medal in Team and finished 6^th in Singles. In 1999, he captured the coveted "Iron Man" Championship vs. an all-star field in San Antonio, TX.
He was the youngest Certified Coach in America at age 12 and the youngest ABC League Secretary at age 14.

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Writing Accomplishments: Currently the editor of Bowling this Month Magazine, the number one technical bowling magazine in the world. He writes editorials and instructional articles for BTM and was honored with “Editorial of the Year” in 2003 and has received national awards on two other occasions. In 2005, he was named the Wood Award for Professional Journalism by the Texas Women’s Bowling Writers.  For 4 years, he was the only featured American writer for the Bowling Sport Magazine of Russia, handling technical bowling questions from Russian readers of that publication. Jim has written syndicated bowling columns for 20 bowling newspapers and 12 bowling websites coast to coast.