Chris Loschetter (born May 24, 1980
) is an American professional bowler from
Florida
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, currently on the
Professional Bowlers Association
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(PBA) Tour. Chris attended
Florida State University
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, and was on the bowling team there in the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons. He was part of the Junior Team USA from 2000–2001. Since 2003 he has been a member of the
PBA Tour
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. He spent several years on the pro staff for
Brunswick before becoming a "free agent" in 2013. As of the 2021 season, he is on the pro staff for
MOTIV bowling balls and Vise Grips.
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History on the PBA Tour
Chris joined the PBA Tour in 2003. He holds two PBA Tour titles and 15 PBA Regional titles. He has 25 career perfect games
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* Perfect game (baseball), a complete-game win by a pitcher allowing no baserunners
* Perfect game (bowling), a 300 game, 12 consecutive strikes in the same game
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in PBA competition, and his highest certified series is an 847. His PBA Tour earnings through the 2019 season are $691,888.
His best year on Tour to date was the 2007–08 season, in which he cashed in 20 events, made match play 14 times, made two TV finals appearances, finished 8th in PBA Tour points, and collected $84,776 in earnings.
Second place
From 2003 to 2012, Loschetter made it to the title match on four occasions, losing all four times as opponents averaged 260.5 against him. He was denied his first major title when he was defeated by Patrick Allen
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Life and career
Allen was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi), where his father was a tobacco farmer. After his parents returned to Britain, he was evacuated to Canada ...
in the final match of the 2004–05 PBA World Championship The PBA World Championship is one of five major PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) bowling events. It is one of three PBA Tour major events that are open only to PBA members. (The U.S. Open and USBC Masters allow qualifying amateurs to enter.) ...
, 235–210. One of the closest times he came to winning was in 2008 at the Pepsi Championship, when he was the #1 seed going into the title match but got beat by fellow Brunswick pro staff member Brad Angelo, 256–215. Loschetter was also chosen to represent Brunswick at the 2012 PBA Summer Shootout alongside Sean Rash. Although it wouldn’t count as a PBA Tour Title, Loschetter and Rash made the championship match, to face Jason Belmonte
Jason Belmonte (born 29 July 1983) is an Australian professional ten-pin bowler. He plays on the PBA Tour in the United States and in world events. He is known for being one of the first bowlers to gain media attention for using the two hand ...
and Pete Weber. However, needing a mark and good count to win, Loschetter left the 3-4-6-7 in the 10th frame, and after leaving the four, Team Brunswick lost 244-233.
First PBA Tour title
On June 1, 2013, Chris ended a title drought of nine years and 153 events on the Tour by winning the Lucas Oil PBA Wolf Open in Wauwatosa, WI. As the #1 qualifier for the event, he only had to bowl one game in the televised final, in which he defeated four-time PBA titleist Bill O'Neill, 264–231. At the time, Chris had the third-longest active streak of PBA events (behind Joe Ciccone and Nathan Bohr) without a win.
Additional accomplishments
Chris won the 2011 Kuwait Open, which at the time did not count as a PBA title. He also owns two European Bowling Tour (EBT) titles. Chris was a member of the 'Merica Rooster Illusion team, which won the PBA Team Challenge title in Las Vegas
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on November 1, 2016. This counted as his second PBA Tour title.
Personal
Loschetter currently resides in Avon, Ohio
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History
In the 17th century, what is now Avon, Avon Lake, Bay Village, and West ...
with his wife Erin, who bowled collegiately at Central Missouri State. The two have a son named Emmett.[ Chris is a survivor of testicular cancer.][
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References
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1980 births
Living people
American ten-pin bowling players