Top Bowling Teams have “New” Head Coaches
Vandercook Lake High School bowler Shelby Miller rolled a 391 series for the Jayhawks during a match at Suburban Lanes on Wednesday. Photo by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. By Jeff Steers JTV Sports Two of the top Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 4 bowling programs have new coaches at the helm. Only a couple of the coaches have been around for a while. Napoleon and Vandercook Lake high schools met Wednesday in a bowling match at Suburban Lanes in Jackson. Vandercook Lake edged Napoleon in boys’ bowling in overtime, 16-15. Napoleon was too much for the Jayhawks in the girls’ match, 25-5. The Cascades Conference match was a debut for VCL girls’ bowling coach Anthony Crabtree and boys’ coach Mike Abbey. Crabtree takes over a program that has won seven state team bowling titles by Todd Reichard. Five bowlers have won individual state titles including Crabtree’s daughter Nicole – who was named the top bowler in Michigan in 2009. Crabtree was an assistant coach at VCL for nearly a decade before becoming the head coach at East Jackson for a couple of seasons. He said nobody wanted to follow Reichard and that success. “I think maybe people were intimidated…
