Let’s Go Bowling: Newton begins sanctioned high school bowling

High school bowling arrived in Iowa and Newton in 2000. It has existed as a “club sport” through the High School Bowling Federation, which was created by the Iowa Bowling Proprietor’s Association. In 2006, the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union began to sanction bowling and in 2009 the Iowa High School Athletic Association will also. This past spring, the Newton school board voted to add bowling to their list of activities with the overwhelming justification that a high percentage of the kids involved in bowling, do not participate in other activities. For whatever reason, bowling reaches out to a new set of student athletes and a new era of bowling is under way. The Newton Cardinal bowlers have performed well over the last two season