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Carolyn is known as one of the best female bowlers of all time, and at the Kegel training center also has the title of being the most accurate player in history of the testing center, hitting the exact target over 30 times in a row at exactly the same speed. During the PBA Women's Series
Showdown in
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All-American. Before the PWBA disbanded, she had moved up to sixth on the all-time Tour earnings list (over $ 910,000). She won two PBA Women's Series titles (2007 Great Lakes
Classic and 2008 Cheetah Championship). She also won the PBA Women's Series Showdown, a non-title event held in April, 2009.
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Classic. With the support of her sister and husband, her career really took off in 1997, when she began a string of eight titles in four seasons, beginning with the 1997 Three Rivers
Classic. In that period she was the runner up in the Player of the Year voting all four seasons.
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University to back to back national titles and was a three-time All-American. She was the MVP of the Intercollegiate Bowling Championships in 1989. She graduated in 1989 with a B.A. in Communications.
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2009, CDB rolled 20 consecutive strikes over two games to earn the distinction of rolling the most consecutive strikes in the history of televised bowling (male or female). (The previous mark of 18 consecutive strikes had been set by the PBA's
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During the original existence of the PWBA Tour, Carolyn was one of its top bowlers. Carolyn had 20 Tour titles over a 14-year career (1990–2003). She won her first title in a doubles tournament in 1991 with her partner,
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Following the disbandment of the PWBA in 2003, Dorin-Ballard started to bowl against men in PBA competition. In 2007, she became the first woman to bowl a perfect game in a PBA event, doing so in match play at the
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collegiate squad. In 2022, Carolyn and Alyssa won the PBA King of the Lanes: Royal Family
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Ambassador Award, an honor given annually to the "bowling athlete who has consistently shown grace on and off the lanes by promoting the sport of bowling in a positive manner."
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In 2006, she joined top female bowlers from around the world in the USBC Women's
Challenge tournament. The event took place on a single lane, in the middle of a shopping mall in
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two years earlier.) Currently a Roto Grip staffer, Carolyn is representing the brand with her recent bowling with Team USA and was on the roster for the PanAmerican games.
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Professional Staff, and also endorses Turbo 2-N-1 Grips, USBC and
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award. She tied or broke 11 PWBA Tour records in 2001, including setting a record for most titles (7) and the most TV finals appearances (18) in a season. (
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543:Winters, Jill (June 2, 2022).
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342:Dick Weber
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