In its first year as a recognized entity at Cox High School, members of the school\u2019s Bowling Club are already reaching the top of their game.<\/p>\n
Complete with 20 active members and four teams thus far, the club meets every Tuesday at Pinboys Bowling Alley on Laskin Rd. from 3-5 p.m. to bowl against other Beach high school club teams.\u00a0 Teams are allotted 15 minutes to warm-up and then compete against other teams in their bracket, decided upon by Pinboys rankings.\u00a0 Each team play three games for $7 weekly, and includes free shoes.<\/p>\n The Pinboys bowling tournament was already in place and other schools were already competing on a weekly basis. So, when interested students approached German teacher Larry Becker at the beginning of the school year about sponsoring the club, he was all for it.<\/p>\n After approval was granted, interest quadrupled.\u00a0 In the club\u2019s first two months of competition, two of the teams moved quickly up the ranks.\u00a0 Team Wolfpack jumped from 18th<\/sup> place to 2nd<\/sup> in the tournament and Team Talon clawed its way from 12th<\/sup> place to 6thplace. \u00a0The school\u2019s other two teams, the Raptors and the Strikers, are also climbing the ladder.<\/p>\n Through commitment, these students are learning that success can be found not only through sports\/activities, but in the classroom as well.\u00a0 And, that the determination to achieve can carry over in to any venue, especially when they are with their best friends.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m able to bowl with my best friends, win games, and have fun,\u201d Wolfpack member senior Ross Clapham said.\u00a0 \u201cIt brings different kids together who might not be involved in other activities and shows them that everyone has the chance to commit to success.\u201d<\/p>\n Along with Becker, the club is co-sponsored by Spanish teachers Stephanie Harris and Pat Ormsby.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s another outlet for our students.\u00a0 They [students] are able to develop camaraderie with their peers from other schools in a non-threatening arena.\u00a0 And, it\u2019s fun,\u201d Becker said.<\/p>\n As an added incentive, Pinboys offers active members of any high school bowling club the opportunity to bowl free of charge Monday-Friday from 3-5, as well as a pair of free shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feb. 21 UPDATE: One of the four Cox High School Bowling Club teams, the Wolfpack, won the 2014 Pinboys Cup trophy this week, making them this season’s Virginia Beach High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wolfpack](\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Wolfpack12.jpg\")
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