Excitement is building amongst the disabilities community with the 7th TBA Australian Disability Tenpin Bowling Championships scheduled to commence at AMF Moonah Bowling Centre on Saturday, 23 June. Hobart will be abuzz with a week of bowling action as tenpin bowlers and their supporters from all around Australia travel to Tasmania to compete in the National Disabilities Championships of this popular sport.
Competitors will be vying for medals according to their averages or skill levels, and not to their disability and as such, tenpin bowling is unique.
Almost 200 bowlers with a disability from across the nation will compete in Singles, Doubles, Teams and All-Events categories to determine graded national champions. The Nationals will also include Scratch and Handicap State Team events featuring five bowlers per team, and conclude with a Masters event prior to a Dinner Dance Victory Banquet on Friday, 29 June.
Participants must be registered players with Tenpin Bowling Australia and with a condition acknowledged by one of a wide range of NSOD’s:- Ausrapid, Australian Sports Organisation for the Disabled, Blind & Vision Impaired Tenpin (Aust), Cerebral Palsy Sports and Recreation Federation of Australia, Deaf Sports Australia, Special Olympics Australia, Transplant Australia or Wheelchair Sports Australia.
Few sports are as ideally suited to people with disabilities than tenpin bowling. Indeed, bowling’s diversity sets it apart from other sports – it can be an individual or team sport for both males and females, regardless of physical limitations, and with no age, height or size discrimination.
Tenpin bowling has many other advantages in that it is a low impact, non-contact sport with the additional benefits of being a sun-safe, family oriented, lifetime sport.
The latest statistics - published by the Australian Sports Commission in its Participation & Non-Participation of PWD in Sport and Active Recreation 2011Report - highlight tenpin bowling as the organised sport of choice and leading the top ten participation sports in the country for people with a disability.
For further information regarding the Championships, please contact Tournament Director, Tony Morris on 0410 642 061 or (02) 4626 2061 (Email: [email protected]) or Tenpin Bowling Australia on (07) 3262 4455 (Email: [email protected]).
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Competitors will be vying for medals according to their averages or skill levels, and not to their disability and as such, tenpin bowling is unique.
Almost 200 bowlers with a disability from across the nation will compete in Singles, Doubles, Teams and All-Events categories to determine graded national champions. The Nationals will also include Scratch and Handicap State Team events featuring five bowlers per team, and conclude with a Masters event prior to a Dinner Dance Victory Banquet on Friday, 29 June.
Participants must be registered players with Tenpin Bowling Australia and with a condition acknowledged by one of a wide range of NSOD’s:- Ausrapid, Australian Sports Organisation for the Disabled, Blind & Vision Impaired Tenpin (Aust), Cerebral Palsy Sports and Recreation Federation of Australia, Deaf Sports Australia, Special Olympics Australia, Transplant Australia or Wheelchair Sports Australia.
Few sports are as ideally suited to people with disabilities than tenpin bowling. Indeed, bowling’s diversity sets it apart from other sports – it can be an individual or team sport for both males and females, regardless of physical limitations, and with no age, height or size discrimination.
Tenpin bowling has many other advantages in that it is a low impact, non-contact sport with the additional benefits of being a sun-safe, family oriented, lifetime sport.
The latest statistics - published by the Australian Sports Commission in its Participation & Non-Participation of PWD in Sport and Active Recreation 2011Report - highlight tenpin bowling as the organised sport of choice and leading the top ten participation sports in the country for people with a disability.
For further information regarding the Championships, please contact Tournament Director, Tony Morris on 0410 642 061 or (02) 4626 2061 (Email: [email protected]) or Tenpin Bowling Australia on (07) 3262 4455 (Email: [email protected]).
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