BOWLING
ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
“
Troy has amazing
focus and determination.
He practices
more than almost any
bowler on the team
and takes it personally
when practice doesn’t
go the way he would
like it to. Troy has a
very strong mental
game. He was motivated
from the first
practice to win every
match and was always
talking about State. He
took any bad days seriously
and worked on
whatever he struggled
with the next practice,
or sometimes even
staying after practice.
CAMANCHE COACH
BRAD WEBER
” TROY
EDMUNDS
And in fitting fashion, Camanche junior Troy
Edmunds took the trophy at the front of the
Indians’ bowling team after throwing the best
two-game series in the state tournament’s
history, leading the group to the state title
this spring. Edmunds went perfect through the
first nine frames in each of his two individual
games, stringing together strike after strike
until the tenth frame, where he left the only
pins of the game standing. That gave him a
566 series through the two games – the best
individual performance of the day as well.
Two close calls with a perfect game. Edmunds
appeared loose and ready – at least to the
spectating eye.
“It was definitely nerve-wracking, to say the
least,” Edmunds said. “My legs were shaking,
and it might be the most pressure I’ve been
under in my life. I am honestly beyond proud
of myself, this is a dream come true.”
Edmunds lent his talents to a powerful bowling
team that made an impressive season even
better with the state championship. That’s a
year after winning second place in Class 1A.
“He constantly said ‘I want to win this thing’
during the days leading up to state and he
went out and did just that,” Camanche coach
Brad Weber said. “He thinks and analyzes everything
and wants to be consistent. He is also
a good source to rally his other teammates
and keep them focused. Everyone has a bad
day once in a while, but it is pretty easy to get
Troy to bounce back from those bad days.”
CAMANCHE HIGH SCHOOL | JUNIOR
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| 2019-2020