Tom Brockway stepped away from the interview for his turn. He grabbed his bowling ball and effortlessly rolled it down the alley. A second later, the ball knocked down the pins—a strike.
On his way back to this reporter, he gave a couple of high fives.
A strike isn’t new to Brockway. He estimates his per-game strike average is about four out of five.
Although his average is pretty impressive, he recently rolled a perfect 300 game—a score he’s attained a few times before. In a series of three consecutive games, he rolled an 828. At a Feb. 7 game, Brockway had a per-game average of 210, which was an improvement of his last season, a number he only remembers was less than 200.
Brockway started bowling about 22 years ago when his son, who was 5, also started.
“I taught him everything he knows,” Brockway’s son Zac joked.
“We’re a bowling family,” the elder Brockway added.
Brockway looks up to another bowler, Floyd Johnston, for bowling with age.
“He just turned 91 and still bowls,” Brockway said. “I want to be like Floyd.”
This article appears in Feb 10-17, 2011.