Missy Parkin, USBC Hall of Famer, began bowling at the young age of 2 ½ and never looked back. By age 10, she was competing in scratch travel leagues and managed to shoot three perfect 300 games at only 14 years old, being in 8th grade. Missy won over $20,000 in youth scholarship money over her entire junior bowling career, winning the first ever Junior Olympic Gold National Championships at age 16.

Missy also earned a spot as a member of Team USA at only 18 years of age, becoming then the youngest to ever qualify for the Team. She is a four-time member of Junior Team USA and thirteen-time member of Team USA and has won over two dozen international gold medals, including two World Champion titles in Women’s Team in 2022 and Trios in 2019.

Missy’s bowling career was definitely unconventional. Missy anchored the Men’s/Mixed Team at CSU, Fullerton to a 4th place finish in the 2003 Intercollegiate Bowling Championships, the highest finish ever for a mixed team, where she was also voted MVP in the Men’s Division and voted to the Men’s All Tournament Team. Additionally, Missy was named Collegiate Bowler of the Year and Most Valuable Player for 2003.

Missy became the first woman to join the Professional Bowlers Association in 2004, where she competed against the men for over a decade. She became the First Woman to win three PBA Regional Titles, has a Career High of 1 Major Title – the 2011 USBC Queens and was ranked one of the Top 3 Female Bowlers in the World from 2011-2015.

Missy was voted into the USBC Hall of Fame in 2024.

Missy and her husband Drew are the proud owners of Parkin’s Bowling Supply, a chain of pro shop throughout Southern California, as well as owners of Mira Mesa Lanes, a 44-lane bowling center in San Diego. Missy is also Mom to son DJ. Missy graduated Summa Cum Laude from California State University-Fullerton in 2004 with a degree in Communications/Public Relations (minor in Spanish).

For more information, visit www.missyparkin.com.