Monthly Archives: June 2008

Teresa Ross joins USBC Coaching Staff

The United States Bowling Congress has announced that Junior Team USA assistant coach Teresa Ross will join the organization’s Coaching department. The highly accomplished USBC Silver coach based in Manteca, Calif., will join USBC Coaching after the headquarters moves its facility to Arlington, Texas, in the coming months.

“I am very excited to take on this new challenge and am looking forward to the move to Texas and working with everyone at USBC,” said Ross, whose title will be Coaching Specialist.

Plans call for Ross to focus on researching and helping develop specific approaches to coaching female bowlers to help their performance.

“I would like to start doing some research on women bowlers and their strengths,” said Ross. “We all know that men and women differ physically. Creating strategies that benefit women to help them improve is a logical step.” Continue reading

Rod Ross Named Head Coach International Training Center

Rod Ross, one of the most respected and innovative coaches in the sport of bowling, has been named the first head coach of the United States Bowling Congress International Training Center that will be constructed at the national governing body’s new headquarters facility in Arlington, Texas.

Ross, 52, is the current head coach of Junior Team USA – the national youth amateur bowling team – and one of just 30 bowling coaches in the world certified at the USBC Gold level, the organization’s highest. He has coached numerous professional and world-renowned amateur bowlers and has helped revolutionize coaching in the sport by developing cutting-edge computer and video training technology that have become industry standards. He will use these resources at the new training center along with recently developed and patented USBC coaching technology. Continue reading

California Junior Bowlers Panning for Gold

By: Teresa Ross
June 8, 2008

Participants from the Junior Gold Clinic held by Bowlers Connection in Manteca are panning for gold in Detroit.

Dr. DeanThe Junior Gold Clinic held in Manteca California on June 7, 2008 was a success with forty two youth bowlers in attendance. The eight hour clinic was run by Teresa Ross with lead instructors Sports Physiologist Dean Hinitz and Gold Coach Rod Ross, on lane instructors included: Mark Benavidez, Debbie, Haggerty, Leanne Barrett-Hulsenberg, Gary Hulsenberg, and assistant Gary Hafelfinger.

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