For starters: Will be updated soon.
2003-04: Will be updated soon.
2002-03: Kathleen Weissman, an outstanding bowler and brilliant student who is attending NJCU on a full academic scholarship, became the first individual tournament champion in the three-year history of the women’s bowling program on February 15, 2003, when she captured the Briarcliffe College Invitational in Smithtown, NY with a 210.250 average. Ms. Weissman ranked 17th in the nation among freshmen women bowlers in Division I, II, III and NAIA schools in 2002-03, and 84th overall among all who graced the lanes for the season. She had a 187.233 tournament average as a freshman. In addition to winning the Briarcliffe event, she was one of NJCU’s bowlers to post a Top-25 finish on November 3, as the Knights won the Marist College Invitational, one of three team championships in the history of the program. It was the first of two Top-25 finishes. In nine tournaments, she rolled 60 games, dropping 11,234 pins. Her season average was nearly eight pins more per game than the national average. In Eastern Intercollegiate Bowling Conference (EIBC) action, she averaged a 185.417 (24 games/4.450 pins) as NJCU placed third in the league. She will be one of the catalysts of the NJCU program which will compete for an NCAA national championship in the sport of women’s bowling for the first time in 2003-04.
High School: A June 2002 graduate of well-known private school Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, NJ…earned a 3.515 GPA in high school…a four-year varsity bowler for coach Lynn Gansley with the Blue Eagles…Weissman was selected First-Team All-Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League all four years of her career…additionally, was chosen All-Bergen County all four years of her career…a two-time First-Team All-County and two-time Second-Team All-County pick…named Second-Team All-State…IHA teams won the NNJIL championship all each year of her career…a member of two county champions with the Blue Eagles…as a senior in 2001-2002, served as IHA’s anchor…tabbed as North Jersey’s Female Bowler of the Year by the Bergen Record newspaper after rolling a career-best 692 series in the three-game state bowling tournament to vault her team to a fourth-place finish, the best in school history…the 692 gave her the number one seed in the state individual tournament…defeated Point Pleasant Boro’s Kristine Bonham in the NJSIAA state semifinals, 190-181, before falling in the Stepladder state final to Brick Memorial’s Dotti Artale, 248-192…with 1244 total pins, finished just 16 pins shy of Artale in the individual standings (1260)…her 244 in the team tournament final was second only to a 248 from Fair Lawn’s Lisa Sorger…averaged a 188 for the season…as a senior, IHA compiled a 95-10 league record, and won the triple crown (league, county, state sectional champions), en route to being named the Record’s “North Jersey Girls Bowling Team of the Year”…won the Bergen County title with 5,276 pins in the six-game format…IHA also set an unofficial State sectional record with a 2.816 team score in the sectional final…records have only been verified since 1987 for the North I, Group IV Section…at the New Jersey State Elks Association Youth Sports Tournament from July 16-18, 2000 at the Tamiment Resort, Weissman placed third in the junior girls division with a 1434 score in nine games as a member of the Hasbrouck Heights Lodge… actively involved in C.A.R.E., an IHA organization devoted to community service…was a Bergen County Youth Leader.
Personal: Born January 13, 1984 in Teaneck, NJ…Full name is Kathleen Mary Weissman…Parents are Mary and Paul Weissman…an only child…was awarded a full academic scholarship by NJCU to study Special Education…Her father is a Bergen County representative on the New Jersey State Bowling Association Board of Directors.
