Michelle Feldman is a right-handed female professional ten-pin bowler

Ten-pin bowling

Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...

 and former member of the now-defunct Professional Women's Bowling Association

Professional Women's Bowling Association

The Professional Women's Bowling Association formed in 1960. After the organization struggled, a group of female professional bowlers left the PWBA to form the Ladies' Professional Bowlers Association in 1974. The two merged again in 1978, forming the Women's Professional Bowlers Association,...

 (PWBA). She hails from Skaneateles, NY

Skaneateles (town), New York

Skaneateles is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 7,323 at the 2000 census. The name is from the Iroquois "Indian" tribe term for the adjacent lake: "long lake." The town is on the western border of the county and includes a village, also called Skaneateles...

, and now resides in nearby Auburn, NY. In her career, she has won 14 professional titles: 12 on the PWBA Tour and two more in the PBA Women's Series

PBA Women's Series

The PBA Women's Series was a mini-tour for female professional bowlers. It was started in 2007 as a way to bring women's bowling back to television after the Professional Women's Bowling Association disbanded in 2003...

. She was named 2002 PWBA Player of the Year, and was also honored as the Bowling Digest Bowler of the Year in 2002.

She recently competed in the PBA Women's Series, which is sponsored by the United States Bowling Congress

United States Bowling Congress

The United States Bowling Congress is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States. It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress, Women's International Bowling Congress, Young American Bowling Alliance, and USA Bowling...

 (USBC). She won two of the first three Women's Series events in the 2008-09 season. She failed to win a singles title in the 2009-10 season, but finished high enough in one of the tournaments to earn a spot in the season-ending PBA Women's Series Showdown. Feldman won this April 6–8 event, rolling 8 of a possible 10 strikes and earning a 12 in the Johnny Petraglia

Johnny Petraglia

Johnny Petraglia was born in Brooklyn, New York, and now hails from Manalapan Township, New Jersey. He is best known as a left-handed bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association , where he won 14 tour titles. He has also won six Senior PBA Tour titles...

 scoring system to defeat Shannon Pluhowsky and Stefanie Nation in the finals.

On July 10, 1997, Feldman gained fame by being the first female bowler to roll a 300 game on American national television. She accomplished the feat at the PWBA Southern Virginia Open when she was just 21 years old.

Feldman has a high-powered, high-rev "cranker

Bowling form

In the sport of ten-pin bowling there are many different ways in which to deliver the bowling ball in order to advance it toward the pins in an accurate and powerful manner. Generally, there are three basic forms and several variants. The most basic form is known as stroking, which is the most...

" style delivery that is uncommon among female bowlers.

Other sources

• Women's Series Player Bios at www.pba.com