2019-20 Women's Bowling Roster
Biography
2019-20 (Senior): Began year with Preseason All-MEAC honor … Earned First-Team All-MEAC after finishing the season ranked No. 16 in the country with a 201.59 Traditional average … Bowled 79.6% of the team's games and 43.6% of her 39 games were scored 200 or more … Had two Top 5 finishes and three Top 25 finishes … Finished the season ranked No. 24 in the NTCA Player Composite Performance Index … Ranked No. 10 in the NTCA with an 86.6% fill percentage and No. 15 in Baker fill percentage with an 86.6% … Was No. 3 in single-pin spare percentage with 94.7% … No. 4 in the country in Traditional single-pin spare conversion at 97.1% … Among the national leaders in individual spare conversion percentage (75.4%, 4th) and Baker individual spare conversion percentage (75.4, 7th) … Ranked 15th in converting Traditional "Makeable" spares with 85.3% … Ranked in the Top 15 in overall individual split leave percentage (7.0%, 7th) as well as Baker (6.7%, 9th) … Made the All-Tournament team at the Cougar Classic, MEAC No. 1 meet and won the Prairie View A&M Invitational with a 234.17 Traditional average … Finished year with MEAC All-Academic honors... Ended her career with 55 games of 200-or-better ... Her college career high score was 265, which she accomplished at the Prairie View A&M Invitational Feb. 1, 2020 …Received th Coaches Award at the end-of-year Digital Harrys Awards ... Member of Hawks' Student-Athlete Advisory Committee ...
2018-19 (Junior): Helped lead Maryland Eastern Shore to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Bowling Championship and all the way to the NCAA Semifinals as well as a United States Bowling Congress (USBC) sectional title and national qualification ... The junior earned the MEAC Bowler of the Year award ... Season was also highlighted by her qualifying for Junior Team USA ... Capped off the year with a National Tenpins Coaches Association Honorable Mention All-American Honor ... Led the nation in Overall Spare Conversion Percentage with a 76.8 Percent and was among the NCAA’s Top 15 in many other key categories ... Recorded her season high of 247 at the James Brown Invitational and finished third in that tournament along with a second-place finish at Prairie View A&M earlier in the season ... All-Tournament selection at both Kutztown and Caldwell ... Named Team MVP at the postseason Harry's Awards ... Member of Hawks Student Athlete Advisory Committee ... Named to MEAC All-Academic Team for the season ... Made MEAC Commissioners' All-Academic Team ... Averaged 197.2 overall, 197.7 in Baker and 196.5 in Traditional ... Season high of 247 at James Brown Invitational ...
2017-2018 (Sophomore): MEAC All-Academic Team... Bowled 582 frames (50.3 percent of team's frames)... Averaged 184.2 (Baker) and 189.1 (Traditional)... Converted 87.2 percent of single pin spares... NTCA All-Academic Honoree...
2016-2017 (Freshman): Named Co-MEAC Rookie of the Year... Averaged 198.6 in Baker games and 181.5 in traditional... Converted 71.6 percent of her spares and 89.3 percent of single pins... Rolled a 231 at the Mid-Winter Invitational... Had a 42.8 strike percentage... Bowled 968 frames in her first season...
High School/Amatuer: Was a volleyball player at Roanoke Valley Christian School, where she earned a letter for the 2014-15 season... Was class Salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society...Made the A/B Honor Roll all four years of high school, was Junior Marshall and won the Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence Award... Was a youth Committee Member of VASTATEUSBC... Qualified four times for the Junior Gold Championships... Highest finish in U15 Division of the Junior Gold Championships was seventh in 2013...Highest finish in the U20 Division of the Junior Gold Championships is 35th in 2014 and 68th in 2016... Finished 14th at 2016 Teen Masters Championships... Selected to attend the ITRC Bowling Combine combine twice ranked No. 2 in 2014 and No. 1 in 2015... Career-best high game is 279... High three-game series is 699 (on sport conditions)...
Personal: Full name is Cayla Michelle Hicks... Major is chemistry/Pre-Pharmacy... Daughter of Russ and Shelia Hicks... Has one brother, Adam and three sisters: Arlette, Nicole and Tamie... Pregame routine: "I always wipe off the bowling ball and grab my rosin bag several times before I take my first shot. I envision how and where I want the ball to go down the lane before beginning my approach."... Plans upon graduation include establishing herself as a pharmacist and competing in a few PWBA tournaments... Personal Best sports moment: "In 2013, lost to Breanna Clemmer during match play at the Junior Gold Championships to finish 7th. In 2015 and 2016, I was able to face her several more times in very close matches at the Tough Shots Tour Tournaments to finish first in three of the five events I competed in."... Personal Best non athletic moment was being awarded Salutatorian of here senior class... Best advice/favortie saying: "It's not a sprint; It's a marathon"... Hobbies outside of sports include coloring and solving jigsaw puzzles...Person who influenced her the most was a former volleyball coach Stephanie Connor who "taught me to always give 100 percent whether it is in practice or in competition. She showed me how to be a hard working student and athlete at a young age."... Personal athletic goal for freshman year is to have a 90-90 percent single pin conversion and an 85-90 percent overall makable spare conversion... Personal athletic goals before graduation include becoming a junior team USA member, win national titles as a Maryland Eastern Shore bowling team member and have a composite average og 200 or more as a college bowler... Favorite Books: The Shack... Favorite Movie: Maze Runner and the Hunger Games.
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