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Bowling News USA - February 26, 2010 Duke and Johnson Earn BWAA Bowler of the Year Honors...

 

ARLINGTON, Texas - Storm PBA staff members Norm Duke and Liz Johnson have been chosen as the best bowlers of the calendar year 2009 by the Bowling Writers Association of America. For Duke, it is back-to-back crowns, as he also won in 2008, and it is his fourth overall (1994, 2000) Johnson's 2009 award was her third, and her best performances are coming in odd years. She also won in 2005 and 2007.

In 2009, Duke won three professional titles, bringing his career total to 33. Johnson also won three times, capturing the PBA Women's Viper Championship, and the USBC Queens. Duke won the PBA Dick Weber Open, and the Cheetah Championship. Together, Duke and Johnson won the 2009 PBA Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles Championship.

It was a stellar earnings year for both players. Duke earned $174,285 in event prize money, and in spite of not having a women's tour to bowl in, Johnson earned a very respectable $88.000 in PBA and USBC competition.

BWAA began presenting the men's award in 1942, and the women's in 1948. The winners are chosen each year by active BWAA members using a point system based on performance. In 2009, the men's race was very close, with Duke edging Wes Mallot 57-23. Johnson won the award handily over Kelly Kulick 105-43.

Courtesy of BWAA

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