Best Bowler ESPY Award

Summary

The Best Bowler ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1995 to the best ten-pin bowler, irrespective of gender, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year of those contesting the sport professionally in the United States. To date, the award has only been presented to male bowlers.

Between 1993 and 2004 the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.[1] The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners edit

Year Bowler Nation of
citizenship
1995 Norm Duke   United States
1996 Mike Aulby   United States
1997 Bob Learn Jr.   United States
1998 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.   United States
1999 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.   United States
2000 Parker Bohn III   United States
2001 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.   United States
2002 Pete Weber   United States
2003 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.   United States
2004 Pete Weber   United States
2005 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.   United States
2006 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.   United States
2007 Norm Duke   United States
2008 Norm Duke   United States
2009 Norm Duke   United States
2010 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.   United States
2011 Jason Belmonte   Australia
2012 Sean Rash   United States
2013 Pete Weber   United States
2014 Pete Weber   United States
2015 Jason Belmonte   Australia
2016 Jason Belmonte   Australia
2017 Jason Belmonte   Australia
2018 Rhino Page   United States
2019 Norm Duke   United States
2020 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Tom Daugherty   United States
2022 Kyle Troup   United States

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.

References edit

  • Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2002-02-23)