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Sports history was made at today’s 2010 International Bowl Expo, when the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America (BPAA) announced that, for the first time in the history of the sport, a Women’s Major professional bowling event will be held in a traditional sporting venue.  Marking a historic achievement for women’s athletics, the BPAA brokered an agreement for the 2011 Bowling’s U.S. Women’s Open to be hosted on-site at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX; details are being finalized for the nationally televised event.  Bowling’s U.S. Women’s Open will be held on June 30, 2011 in conjunction with the 2011 International Bowl Expo and will be sponsored by The Brands of Ebonite International.

“This is an incredible moment for both women’s sports and the bowling industry and an opportunity for Bowling’s U.S. Women’s Open to rightfully take center stage before worldwide audiences,” said Kelly Kulick, recently named ESPY finalist for “Best Bowler,” the first woman to ever win a regular Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) title, five-time member of Team USA and a two-time winner of the Open.  “Bowling’s U.S. Women’s Open is an event that sits at the pinnacle of women’s athletics.  It’s both thrilling and gratifying that this event and its great women athletes – who I am proud to call my competitors – will be catapulted into the spotlight in 2011.”

The ground-breaking announcement was issued before a standing ovation at the General Session kick-off of the 2010 International Bowl Expo at the Las Vegas Hilton.  With confetti cannons blasting and following an emotional video history of the power of the U.S. Open brand in major sports, BPAA Executive Director Steve Johnson called to the Expo stage a number of pioneering female bowling executives and athletes to join him in delivering the historic announcement on the advent of the new, revitalized Bowling’s U.S. Women’s Open.