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Kansas State USBC BA
2009 Hall of Fame Inductees
Sharon Billman
(Parsons, Kansas)
Sharon L. Billman was
born in Erie, Kansas and is a lifelong Kansan. She achieved
Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Pittsburg State University and
was a member of Phi Delta Kappa. She has been married to David
R. Billman Sr. for almost 43 years; she has one daughter
Sharma K Ryan and her husband Pat. She enjoys her two cats;
Petey and Foxy and her grand-dog Lenzi.
Sharon was asked to join
her first sanctioned league in 1972 by Inez Root and still bowls on
the same team today. She fell in love the the game and had
dreams of becoming a professional bowler, but it never happened, as
she didn't have the "God" given talent, so she decided to become
more involved with the administrative side of the sport.
Sharon was appointed to
the Parson's WIBC board as 1st Vice President in the 1975-76 seasons.
She was President and Vice President for seven years. She was
then elected as a state delegate for the Kansas WBA State Board
until she was elected as a Director for the board in 1977, where she
served until 1985. In 1983 the Parson's WIBC board endorsed
her resume' to the WIBC National board. In 1985 Sharon
contacted WIBC to become a WIBC field representative, and it took
six years for WIBC to contact her to see if she was still interested
in the position of a WIBC field representative. Sharon was
hired March 4,. 1991 and retired March 6, 2007 as the ABC/WIBC field
representative the late the USBC. She served the state of: Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. She has also served the
states of; Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, Arkansas, Wyoming and
Colorado. Sharon was asked to resign from the KWBA Board of
Directors when she as hired and accepted the roll from WIBC/ABC
field representative position. She was instrumental in
inviting the WIBC field representative to visit and host the Kansas
State annual meeting, also starting a local Hall of Fame and holding
joint jamborees with the ABC associations. After several year,
the field staffs joined together and she began serving the ABC,
WIBC, and YABA associations.
Sharon attended the Kansas School
of Ministry and was ordained as a Priest in 2003. where she
serves as the Vicar at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Parsons,
Kansas, where she has been a member since 1965.
Sharon
has many individual accomplishments and goals, but we will let her
tell us the stores when she speaks to us tonight. To sum it
up, it's great to have her as our field representative, even though
she was strict and always taught us to do every bowling thing by the
book! When we locked horns and agreed to disagree strongly at
times, we knew we could always count on Sharon for support and
advice for Kansas! Congratulations on being elected a member
of the Kansas State USBC Bowling Association's Hall of Fame, the
years of dedications and devotion to the sport will be missed.
Bryan Goebel
(Kansas City)
Bryan Goebel's year of achievement as a member of the Professional
Bowlers Association have brought not only the obvious recognition to
him, but have been significant to both the Kansas Bowling
Association and the Local Bowling Association in Kansas that he
participated with.
Bryan was
born on October 15, 1961 in Kansas City, Kansas. He started
developing skills as a youth, bowled in leagues in the Lawrence
Bowling Association and as a Collegiate Bowler while attending the
University of Kansas and became a member of the Professional Bowlers
Association in October 1981. His bowling skills developed into a
release style of a power stroke that resulted in Bryan winning his
first PBA.
Regional
Tournament in St. Charles in 1989, and his first National Title in
1990 at the Miller LIte Challenge in Tucson, Arizona. From
1989 through 2002 he participated in 80 PBA regional tournaments,
where he made match play in 48 events. finished in the tip five 21
events and was crowned tournament champion 5 times. His average for
Regional PBA Tournament was 219.93. From 1990 through 2002
Bryan competed in 382 PBA National Tour Tournaments where he cashed
in 231, made match play 152 times, and was in the top five 31 times,
and was tournament champion 10 times. His average in the PBA
National Tour events was 214.49.
Bryan
bowling career included 47 PBA 300 games and at least 15 additional
300 games, with 25 - 800 series in ABC/USBC sanctioned leagues.
His premier achievements include back to back regional
Championships at Rayton in 1992 and 1993, winning the Merit Mixed
Doubles Tournament with Aleta Sill in Reno in 1994, back to back
National PBA Tour Championships in 1998, and at the PBA Medford Open
in 2002 winning his 10th National PBA Title making Bryan eligible
for inclusion into the PBA Hall of Fame.
Bryan,
when not bowling in the top five PBA Tour events, he served several
times as color analyst on television broadcasts, including filling
in for Marshall Holman in 1996, when Marshall won his final PBA
title. At the state and local level, Bryan though out the
1990's and early 2000's was an annual participant at the Lawrence
YABA "Pro Bowlers Day" , and he remains active now by bowling in
Kansas City Metro area leagues. Bryan outside of bowling is a
sport enthusiast watches and support KU Basketball and enjoys
spending time with his wife Kelly and daughter Loryn.
Bryan is
an outgoing and personable individual who has enjoyed great success
at local, state, regional, and national levels of bowling.
Because of this he has served as on exemplary representative for the
sport of bowling and the state of Kansas. It is with extreme
pleasure and pride that we place Mr. Bryan Goebel for induction into
the Kansas State USBC Bowling Association Hall of Fame!
Congratulatuons
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