Best Bowler ESPY Award

The Best Bowler ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1995 to the best ten-pin bowler, irrespective of gender, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year of those contesting the sport professionally in the United States. To date, the award has only been presented to male bowlers.

Between 1993 and 2004 the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.[1] The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners

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Year Bowler Nation of
citizenship
1995 Norm Duke  United States
1996 Mike Aulby  United States
1997 Bob Learn Jr.  United States
1998 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.  United States
1999 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.  United States
2000 Parker Bohn III  United States
2001 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.  United States
2002 Pete Weber  United States
2003 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.  United States
2004 Pete Weber  United States
2005 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.  United States
2006 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.  United States
2007 Norm Duke  United States
2008 Norm Duke  United States
2009 Norm Duke  United States
2010 Walter Ray Williams, Jr.  United States
2011 Jason Belmonte  Australia
2012 Sean Rash  United States
2013 Pete Weber  United States
2014 Pete Weber  United States
2015 Jason Belmonte  Australia
2016 Jason Belmonte  Australia
2017 Jason Belmonte  Australia
2018 Rhino Page  United States
2019 Norm Duke  United States
2020 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Tom Daugherty  United States
2022 Kyle Troup  United States

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.

References

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