Danielle McEwan

Education

In high school, McEwan chose bowling over tennis as her preferred sport.

Career

While at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), McEwan was named FDU Female Athlete of the Year (2012 and 2013) and National Collegiate Athletic Association All American (2011-2013), receiving the Professional Bowlers Association’s 2012 Billy Welu Scholarship. Through her junior year, McEwan had maintained a 3.5 grade point average while majoring in psychology. McEwan competed in Team United States of America for five years, beginning in 2012.

McEwan was one of the first beneficiaries of the 2015 re-launch of the Professional Women"s Bowling Association.

As the leading female bowler in the South Point events and the 2015 United States. Open, McEwan was invited to participate in the 2016 DHC Japan Invitational tournament, along with 13 male Proceedings of the British Academy bowlers. McEwan was selected for the "Barbasol Motown Muscle" Proceedings of the British Academy League team, one of two women drafted for the 2016 season.

She earned a spot in the three-woman field for the Proceedings of the British Academy"s World Bowling Tour (WBT) Women's Finals, held in December, 2015. Training

In addition to bowling practice and gym work (cardio, foam rolling, stretching, and core), McEwan works on her mental game by working with a sports psychologist and by researching books and articles

Achievements

• McEwan won the 2015 PWBA Championship at age 24, after receiving national-level National Collegiate Athletic Association accolades during her college years and being on Team United States of America beginning in 2012. She was also named Northeast Conference Bowler of the Year (2012) and National Collegiate Athletic Association Player of the Year (2012 and 2013). On September 13, 2015, at age 24, McEwan won the 2015 Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship, considered her first major title. At that championship, which concluded the first full season of women's professional bowling since 2003, McEwan ranked fourth for 2015 PWBA Player of the Year. On October 23, 2015, McEwan became the ninth woman to win a Professional Bowlers Association (Proceedings of the British Academy) regional title (the South Point Proceedings of the British Academy West Challenge held in Las Vegas, Nevada), qualifying her to compete in the (January-February) 2016 FireLake Proceedings of the British Academy Tournament of Champions. On October 23-24, 2015, her team "Dead Money" was the upset winner in the Proceedings of the British Academy Team Challenge. In December 2015, McEwan and teammate Kelly Kulick won the gold medal in the doubles competition at the Women"s World Bowling Championship (WBC) in Abu Dhabi, and was on the Team United States of America team that won the gold medal in the WBC team(-of-five) competition. Individually, McEwan won a bronze medal in the Masters competition. McEwan went on to win the WBT Finals ($20,000 first prize), the event"s finalists being chosen and seeded based on Proceedings of the British Academy International-WBT events over a two-year rolling WBT points competition. On March 2, 2016, McEwan won the 2016 Proceedings of the British Academy-WBT His (or Her) Highness Emir Cup (Doha, Qatar. $20,000 prize); however, because she accepted the eight handicap pins per game offered to female bowlers, she became ineligible to earn a Proceedings of the British Academy International Tour title.

Membership

She currently competes on the PWBA Tour and in some events on the Proceedings of the British Academy Tour, and is a member of Team United States of America.