The Nebraska Cornhuskers bowling team represents the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Universit ...
, competing as an independent in
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of College athletics, intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major ...
. The program began as a club team, becoming a varsity sport in 1996 and an official NCAA sport in 2003. The Cornhuskers have since established themselves as the NCAA's premier
bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...
program. Nebraska has won eleven national championships, finished runner-up four times, and is the only program to qualify for every
NCAA Bowling Championship.
History
Nebraska's bowling program began in 1990 as a club sport, coached by Bill Straub, who led the team to
WIBC national titles in 1991 and 1995. Bowling became an official varsity sport at NU in 1996, and Straub was hired as the full-time head coach, winning additional national titles in 1997, 1999, and 2001. In 2003, the NCAA sanctioned its first women's bowling tournament, which Nebraska won. The Cornhuskers won the following year as well, and have since won three more titles and finished runner-up four times. The program has never been ranked lower than seventh. In 2019, Straub retired and longtime assistant Paul Klempa was named head coach.
Straub also led Nebraska's men's club bowling program through 1996, winning national titles in 1990 and 1996.
Coaches
Coaching history
Coaching staff
Awards
All-Americans
Nebraska has had thirty-seven players combine for eighty ATCA All-America honors.
National Bowler of the Year
*Kim Berke – 1992
*Diandra Hyman – 2000
*Shannon Pluhowsky – 2001, 2004, 2005
*Lindsay Baker – 2006
*Amanda Burgoyne – 2007
*Cassandra Leuthold – 2010
*Lizabeth Kuhlkin – 2015
*Raquel Orozco – 2020
*Crystal Elliot – 2021
Season-by-season results
Notes
References
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Bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...
Ten-pin bowling in the United States