The Wright State men\u2019s club bowling team has gotten off to a terrific start in the 2021\u201322 season. After eight events, the team is ranked 12th in the country on collegebowling.com.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe men\u2019s team is for real,\u201d said men\u2019s head bowling coach Jeff Fleck, who co-founded the program and has coached the men\u2019s and women\u2019s clubs since 2005. \u201cWe\u2019re back as good as we\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n
With already one tournament win this fall, at the American Heartland Bowling Association Event, the men\u2019s team is bowling like a well-tuned machine with hopes to carry their success into the spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a great team unless everybody is working together,\u201d said Jonathan Ciero, a left-handed bowler and senior mechanical engineering major. Ciero is also the president of the Student Government Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve never had a bowler as Student Government president,\u201d said Fleck. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n Ciero has been bowling since junior high school. He describes his teammates as family and uses their time together to discuss their college experiences, hoping to make their time at Wright State all it can be.<\/p>\n \u201cJonathan does a pretty good job of bringing the team together,\u201d Andrew Bleakley, bowler and senior majoring in biomedical engineering.<\/p>\n Ciero has one perfect game under his belt and has won two individual tournaments while bowling for the Raiders.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s left-handed and sometimes he doesn\u2019t get the looks that the right-handers do, but he never quits,\u201d said Fleck.<\/p>\n After attending a national bowling tournament in high school, Ciero met the Raider coaching staff, which led to a campus visit to Wright State.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew right then and there that I was coming to Wright State,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams have experienced success in recent years. The women\u2019s team has qualified for the National Bowling Tournament in seven of the last 10 years and finished the 2019-20 season ranked 14th in the country.<\/p>\n Both clubs will be in action on Jan. 15-16 when they travel to Addison, Illinois, for the Kegel Midwest Classic.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got a great program that\u2019s bringing kids to the school,\u201d said Fleck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2021-22 season for the Wright State men\u2019s club bowling team is off to a terrific start. Continue reading