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About Joe Slowinski
With nearly 25 years of coaching experience, Joe Slowinski, ABD, M.Ed., has served in the role of National Coach, Director of Coaching and Coach Certification and as well as the Training Coordinator for a National Youth Development Program. Malaysia is currently using his elite youth development program. He is a an expert coach and program developer skilled in developing elite national teams, facilitating youth development as well as conducting talent identification. His programs are holistic in nature and include sport science as well as world-class bowling knowledge.
For three consecutive years, 2005 - 2007, he has been named as on of the world's Top 100 coaches, by Bowlers Journal International. He is a contributing writer for Bowling This Month in the Slowinski-at-large column sharing his knowledge of elite bowling and coaching technique. In 2007, he facilitated the launching of a global project to improve our understanding of sport science and elite tenpin bowling performance.
Coaching
Slowinski is a United States Bowling Congress Gold Coach. He has trained bowlers in more than 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. He began his forty-plus-year coaching career at 17 when he was certified as a YABA coach while still a junior bowler. He is IBPSIA certified and previously held a Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He has written over 100 instructional articles for Bowling This Month serving as a contributing writer since 2006. Slowinski was the 2018 DII NCAA NTCA co-coach of the year and the 2010 NCBCA Men's College Coach of the Year. He was nominated for Men's Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2011 as well.
Slowinski has coached in the World Championship, Asian Championship, European Championship, Pan American Games, South American Games, and Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games. With Team Brazil, has coached bowlers to Gold Medals at the 2015 Pan American and 2014 South American Games, and with Team Belgium, a Gold at the 2022 EBF European Champions of Champions. In 2023, he coached the U20 Philippines to a Boys' overall country title at the 21st Asian Championship where they won a Gold Medal in Team (first in 42 years) and the Masters (first in 27 years). He coached Philippine bowlers to a 2023 PBA Regional Title (a first) and the Singapore International Open title (a first for a male Philippine bowler).
Slowinski worked as an instructor at the Kegel Training Center (2008 - 2012) for years after serving as the Director of Coaching and Coach Instructor for Malaysia (2006-2008). While at Kegel, he also served as the administrative head coach and men's head coach for Webber International. He also served as the Lincoln Memorial University head coach for 4 years (2016 - 2019).
At Webber International University, the men's team was #1 for the 2009-2010 season. At the ITCs, they finished 3rd in 2009 and 2nd in 2011. In qualifying, at the 2009 ITCs, they rolled the first-ever Baker 300 at the national championship.
Joe as a Bowler
Bowling since the age of 4, Slowinski is also an accomplished bowler who competes in PBA events as well as in many highly competitive amateur tournaments. In 2006, he finished in the top 40 percent at the US Open (186 of 461 competitors) averaging 199 in rounds 2 and3 on the demanding conditions. He has 5 state scratch bowling titles as an adult and was a state scratch champion as a youth bowler. He currently averages 220+ and has averaged 200+ for the past 20 years. As an 18 year-old collegiate bowler at top-ranked West Texas State University, he learned a great deal about the sport, from teammates and elite players such as 1984 World Cup and PBA champion Jack Jurek, PBA champion Mark Scroggins and 2005 Masters Champion Mike Scroggins. This experience began his journey to better understand the complete game of tenpins, from bowling ball layouts and lane play strategies to elements of a flawless physical game and the process of visualization. Slowinski is currently working on two bowling instruction books, one for individuals and one for teams.
Coaching & Player Manuals Developed
* Level I Coaching Manual (Beginner to U12) * Bronze Coaching Manual (Intermediate) * Silver Coaching Manual (Elite to World-Class, National Team) * U12 Implementation Curriculum, week-by-week implementation guide * Bronze Implementation Curriculum, week-by-week implementation guide * Silver Implementation Curriculum, week-by-week implementation guide * Mental Game Improvement Workbook * Ten Year Youth Development Plan * Elite Team Development Program * Center for the Scientific Study of Tenpin Bowling
Link to Joe's BowlingKnowledge.info Website
Keglerx 21:13, 3 August 2007 (EDT)
