LISA FERSHIN

Inducted 2005 - Superior Performance

Lisa began bowling at the old Charleston Heights Bowl at the tender age of 9.  In her first league, Lisa won the Most Improved Bowler award.  She had increased her average by 22 pins that first year.  Her ending league average that year was 44.  Lisa continued improving her bowling skills as she grew up.  She competed for her Junior High School, Woodbury where she averaged in the 160s, as well as Chaparral High School, where she lettered for four years and captained the championship team in 1983.   Her bowling skills in high school and league were honed enough to have a recruitment visit from the bowling coach of Arizona State University, a nomination for the prestigious WIBC Alberta E. Crowe Star of Tomorrow Award, bowling championships from both the Nevada State Association YABA and the Southern Nevada Association YABA including Masters Championship, LVWBA award for rolling the highest scratch series and game in the local youth tournament and being listed in the nation’s Top 10 for her scratch series.   In high school, she averaged 180s and 190s.  Lisa gets a special look on her face when she is bowling well.  When that look appears, the pins had better watch out!   Lisa had that special look when she and her sister Sherril captured the Scratch Doubles in the 1986 LVWBA Tournament and again in 2000 when she broke a state bowling record with her 2126 all events score bowled in the Nevada State Tournament.  She has put her mark on the state 600 Club tournaments having won those championships twice and her consistent average of over 200 helped her win a spot on a Brunswick World Team Championship team sponsored by the Nevada WBA in 1996.   The first time Lisa had a season average over 200 was in 1995.    Her all time high average of 207 was in 1996 and since that time she has consistently averaged over 200.  She has managed to roll at least one 700 series every year since her first 700, in 1995.