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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.
The 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.
USBC High Tech Coaching
Continuing to emphasize the important role that technology will have in growing the sport of bowling, the United States Bowling Congress has developed a system that measures and displays the exact movements of a bowler’s body during the approach and delivery.
The USBC has patented this sophisticated biomechanics technology, which is called “motion capture.” The futuristic-looking system is the first of its kind in the sport of bowling and is expected to be available in the new USBC training facility where it will be used to identify and correct problems with bowlers’ techniques in a more comprehensive manner.
USBC has developed a “motion capture” system for bowling. The network of cameras, sensors and computers measure pressure points and exact movements of a bowler’s body during the approach and delivery. The new biomechanics technology is expected to be available at the USBC training facility in Arlington, Texas, to analyze bowlers’ technique. The idea is that eventually, bowling coaches — like coaches in other sports who use this type of technology to improve performance — can use motion capture in their lessons.
It is envisioned that eventually bowling coaches around the world will have access to motion capture and be able to use the system when giving lessons to their students. Continue reading
