LYLE ZIKES TO BE HONORED
AT BWAA JUNE CONVENTION
Lyle Zikes will be honored June 24 at the Columbia/BPAA writersÂ’ dinner in Orlando, Fla. Zikes earned a place in the Bowling Writers Association of America Hall of Fame.
Zikes sometimes gets confused with his Hall of Fame father because of their first names--Les and Lyle--and the fact they are both longtime members of the Professional Bowlers Association. Now there is another reason to get confused--Lyle will be inducted into the Bowling Writers Association of America's Hall of Fame during ceremonies June 24 in Orlando.
That will make Les and Lyle the second father-son USBC/BWAA Hall of Fame combination, the first as a bowler (Les) and second (Lyle) as a writer.
It's a cliche to say that someone is a jack-of-all-trades, but Lyle certainly is a jack-of-all-journalist trades. Two years before graduating from Northern Illinois University in 1978, Lyle had his first byline story printed in the Bowlers Journal. In 1979, he was named press director for the PBA. He toured with the pros writing stories about their accomplishments and sometimes on off days practicing with them.
His journalistic career took a different turn in 1982 when he returned to Akron as the PBA Director of Operations from 1986-89. Lyle's vast bowling background--the Zikes own a bowling center in Arlington Heights, Ill.--made him a natural for writing prize-winning technical and human interest articles for all of the nation's bowling magazines over the past 25 years. One of the first was a major story on the technical developments in the manufacturing bowling balls for Bowling Magazine. He also was the bowling correspondent for the Chicago Daily Herald, the third largest daily newspaper in Illinois with most of its circulation in Chicago's North and West suburbs.
High School Senior Rolls Beverly Lanes'
Highest Woman Series
Ashley Ruszczak rolled the highest series by a female bowler in the 53 year history of the Beverly Lanes junior league on March 22. With games of 268, 236 and 246 her series totaled 750 for the three games.
A senior at Prospect High School, Ashley just completed her final season on the school bowling team by winning the Mid-Suburban League sectional competition to advance individually to the state finals.
"I played the 8th board all three games and only had to make one adjustment with my feet," said Ashley, a left-hander. She used her favorite ball, a Hammer Black Widow throughout the series and had only one open frame as the result of a split.
When she is not going to school or bowling, Ashley works part-time at Beverly Lanes and hopes to bowl on a collegiate team in the future.
