2024-25 Shocker Men's Bowling

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One of the upsides of moving the Women's Bowling Team to the Shocker NCAA program portfolio is that shines a brighter spotlight on the sport than it had previously. Unfortunately, the Shocker Men's Bowling Program remains more in the shadows thanks to Title IX requirements.

We've added a women's bowling topic in the Women's Sport category so I thought it would appropriated to do the same for the Shocker men's bowling team although news may not be quite as easily accessible for the men as it will be for the women.

Wichita State Men's Bowling Home Page

Wichita State Men's Bowling X Account

2024-25 Shocker Men's Bowling Schedule

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Both the Shocker women and the Shocker men are scheduled to bowl in the Mid-States Championships in Wichita this weekend at Bowlero Northridge. This appears to be a USBC event. I'm sure more details will be forthcoming this week. This will be the only Wichita tournament for the bowling teams this academic year.

It is interesting to see the difference in fan communication and engagement and the amount of administrative support there is for the women now that they are part of the Wichita State's NCAA portfolio of sports vs what they had previously and what the men continue to have.

For example, as far as I can tell the Shocker Men's team has not yet posted their 2024-25 roster.

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Mid-States Championships @ Bowlero Northridge

The Shocker women's team won. I am unable to find any info on how the men's fared at this point. As I said in the post above the fan communication and engagement and administrative support for the Shocker women's bowling team, now that they are in the NCAA fold, and the Shocker Men's bowling team is like day vs night.

Update:

I looked at the Newman University website and found that Newman was the winner of this tournament beating Houston Christian 3-1 (best of 5 Baker games) in the finals winning games 3 and 4 by scores of 231-171 and 234-163.

Newman beat the Shockers 3-1 in the semi-finals. After 3 close games Newman pounded the Shocks 232-163 to close out the match.

https://newmanjets.com/news/2024/10/21/mens-bowling-jets-start-off-the-season-with-three-tournament-wins.aspx