Senior Carie Mascarello set a new state bowling record of 711 total points this season, and a week later, set a new series high of 742.
“I was definitely surprised that that was the high series for the state but when I heard from her who it was originally, who had it? Karina Capron, nobody knows that name here, but she’s big in the bowling world,” Mascarello said.
Bowling coach Laura Scott said she was excited Mascarello had broken the record.
“She works really hard to perfecting her craft, pushing herself to fully understand the game and continuously improve,” Mascarello said.
Mascarello started bowling casually when she moved to Nebraska as a young child.
“I did tournaments, but I really only started dedicating myself when I got to high school, I got in high school as a freshman, and I really started dedicating myself, not only in the school sport, but also on my own for tournaments,” Mascarello said.
Every bowler has a unique way of letting the ball slide through the lane, so does Mascarello.
“I’m a one handed right hand bowler,” Mascarello said. “And I’ve tried bowling left-handed. It’s not it’s not great because it’s not my dominant hand, but it’s possible. There was one where you mostly have a straight line down the lane with a slight curve at the end. Then you have a nice banana shaped line, and then you’ll have the snap line that looks like a high hockey stick. it’s more dependent on how your speed ratios your revs. So I’m more of a speed dominant bowler. I can put revs on my bowl and I could slow down to let my revs do more work. But if bowling normally, I’m more speed dominant, which means my speed outweighs the amount of revs I have.”
Although bowling is an enjoyable sport for Mascarello, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t challenges when it comes to competing.
“The hardest thing for people to grasp is that it’s more difficult than it looks,” Mascarello said. “One of the best analogies I’ve heard from somebody is comparing bowling to golf. With golf, you have sand, you have water, you have high grass, stuff that you can see physically that you don’t want your ball running through. Well, on a bowling lane, it’s the same, except you can’t see it. It’s oil, there’s high oil, there’s low oil, there’s where it’s dry, your balls snap back where it’s not, your ball is just gonna slide.”
Mascarello signed with the University of Central Missouri and will bowl at the Division II level after graduation.
