 Bowling is tremendous. It's amazing. Everyone, everyone dogs on bowling they look down at it as not a sport but it's once you get into it it's amazing and the friendships you create in the family like our team we're not a team anymore we're a family and it can help. This afternoon classic lanes hosted the first-ever KHSAA sanctioned bowling match in Pike County between Johnson Central and Fleming County. The growing sport only has 103 teams across the Commonwealth which are divided across eight regions. Johnson Central is the only team east of Moorhead in the state and they are hoping they aren't the only ones for long. We're trying to kind of grow the program throughout East Kentucky because we got some really talented kids that are actually gonna get scholarships to college. If you weren't aware that there's bowling money available to go to college. Anytime you help young people you know be successful in whatever they're doing it's it's it's it's reaching to me to do that. You know if you want to start a program up parents can get their level one level two on their bronze coaching degree online. You know we'd love to have you know more high schools here. Bowling is a unique sport because you can do it all your life and it's not dictated by how big you are or how strong you are. Sometimes bowling is seen as a recreational sport but it has much more to offer. Colleges and universities all across the nation offer scholarship money to help aid furthering one's education. If you have this program one it's gonna help your title nine numbers and two you're gonna help kids get money for college so it's really a no-brainer to me and you'll often find that kids don't that don't really get into the basketball and get into the baseball and the popular sports they really fit in well here and they thrive. Especially me I had no clue how I was gonna get to college. I mean I get good grades but college is expensive and sometimes that's just not enough money and pretty much the only reason I'm getting to go to college right now is just from our bowling scholarships and everything like that so it's life-changing really. If you are interested in starting a bowling program you can go to bowl.com the official usbcbowlings.org or khsAA.org for all of the information needed. Reporting in Pike County for EKB Sports, I'm Mikaela Colley.