 After 15 seasons of success, the one and only U-Pike women's bowling coach Ron Dameron has stepped away from the lanes. The bowling program was started in 2000 and I've been here 10 years when we started the bowling program. And at the time I was athletic director and also dean of students here with that. We were just looking for another way to get people on campus and looking at sports. And we ended up starting bowling along with football and women's golf together. We got it kind of started, kind of started on the slow win. And now it's a conference sport in the Mid-South Conference. We have 14 teams next year that has bowling in our conference. It's becoming an NAA sport now. It's getting there. The NCAA has made it a championship sport now. So it's really, it was a fast growing sport and it kind of got to it. And we just got into it at a good time. In his time with the U-Pike women's bowling team, he has led the Bears to six national championship appearances, four national titles, two NAAI championships and was named USBC Coach of the Year four times. Some things happened for a reason I guess and I just kind of stuck around. And I had no clue what to expect. I really had no clue that we would ever win a tournament. Sure, I didn't think we'd hardly ever make a national championship. And I'll tell you, I have been blessed with such great young people in our program. And I think sometimes God just puts you in a place that you need to be sometimes. And I think that was here at the university. And sometimes if you do what you're supposed to do, then good things happen. And I think we've just totally been blessed with how we see things work here at our university. A search is currently in progress for a new women's bowling coach. But the shoes will be tough to fill after the success of the Ron Dameron era. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Makayla Colley.