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CONVENTION

CONVENTION 2026


MAY 30, 2026
ONE DAY EVENT!

Holiday Inn Long Beach Airport & Staybridge Suites

2680 N. Lakewood Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90815
(562) 588-9600

The deadline for ASSOCIATION MANGERS to register their Credentials is May 3. Click the button below to register your Delegates.

The deadline for all DELEGATES, YOUTH REPRESENTATIVES and GUESTS to register is May 10. Click the button below to register.

HOTEL INFO:

$159/room (Dbl/Dbl or King)
DEADLINE TO BOOK ROOMS: MAY 8 at 4pm

Instructions for using the reservation link:
• Click on the link for the hotel
• Select the dates you wish to arrive and depart
• Click on “Search”
• Select which room type you wish to reserve
• Fill out required information and pay for the reservation

The link will only work on a computer desktop or laptop. It will not work on with a smart phone device.  Click here to reserve hotel rooms

GUEST PRESENTER:
Jeff, creator of TournamentBowl.com

Saturday, May 30, 2026
8:30am – Delegate Registration
9:00am – USBC JAMBOREE
11:30am – Delegate Luncheon / Youth Scholarship Presentation
12:30pm – Delegate Registration
1:00pm – Tournamentbowl.com Seminar* (Download flyer; Click here to register)
2:45pm – ANNUAL MEETING
5:30pm – AWARDS BANQUET

Guests that are current California USBC members may attend the Annual Meeting with voice only (no vote). *Guests attending only the TournamentBowl.com seminar need to register so that we can make sure that we have enough seating.

CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS!

They will be celebrated at the CUSBC Convention
luncheon on Sat, May 30 in Long Beach.

STAR OF TOMORROW $2,500 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
• Lindsay Greim, Mira Mesa Lanes
• Arden Han-Wei, Country Club Lanes / Steve Cook’s Fireside Lanes
• Shin Sangalang, AMF Rocklin / Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl 

YOUTH $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
• Lathan Chin, Bowlium Lanes
• Hana Sangalang, AMF Rocklin / Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl

Click here to submit a reservation for the
Hall of Fame Awards Dinner. 

Payment can be sent by check, zelle or venmo. Instructions are included in the online form above.

CONVENTION

CONVENTION 2025


MAY 31, 2025
*NEW* ONE DAY EVENT!

Hilton Garden Inn
San Jose

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS with CREDENTIALS SUBMITTED:

Chico USBC
Citrus Belt USBC
Contra Costa County USBC
Golden Empire USBC
Modesto USBC
Monterey Peninsula USBC
North County USBC
San Diego USBC
San Gabriel Valley USBC
Santa Clara County USBC
Sierra Gold USBC

CONVENTION DOCUMENTATION

2025 Convention Reports – Committees
2025 Convention Reports – Officers and Directors
2025 Legislation
2024 Annual Meeting Minutes
2024 By-Laws
Financial Statements will be provided at the meeting

This year our Convention and annual meeting was modified to a one day event trying to keep costs down for the local associations in sending their delegates.

The USBC Jamboree was held in the morning. Jarrod Gallegos from USBC talked through his presentations with updates regarding lane certifications, BVL donations (California USBC was second highest in donations for 2023-24 with $95,119.45) and the new option starting August 1st of being able to purchase multiple memberships online at BOWL.com.

We provided a luncheon for all of the delegates. Despites a late start with the food setup, we were finally able to start the event with our presentation of the 2025 California Youth State $1,000 Scholarship to Shin Gabriel Sangalang from Dublin. Shin didn’t know that we were turning the presentation into a press conference. The guests were able to ask him different questions about his bowling history, equipment and plans for the future.  It was quite fun. (The other youth scholarship winners are from Southern California and were not able to attend the luncheon).

In the afternoon, we held our annual meeting.  The meeting was our annual updates on our event and tournaments.  Most reports are posted above. There were no by-law changes so the only legislation was our elections of three incumbant Directors: Don Way, Brett Kociemba and Linda Stewart.  All were approved by acclamation. Lynn Matsubara and Tom Leigh were also approved to be Delegates for the 2026 USBC Convention in Reno.

Our awards dinner was held later that evening.  We honored five Hall of Fame inductees, three for Superior Performance (Regina Aboud, Bonnie Garber and Ray Valdovino) and two for Professional Performance (Wayne Garber and Larry Laub). It was a very festive group as all of the inductees (excluding Larry Laub who was not able to attend) were old friends who bowled together. It was a nice reunion for them. We will have a video soon that will be posted on youtube.com.

YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS:

STAR OF TOMORROW $2,500 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Jai Kankariya – Diamond Bar, CA
Aaron Calica – Panorama, CA

CALIFORNIA STATE YOUTH $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Lindsay Greim – Poway, CA
Shin Sangalang – Dublin, CA

The Hall of Fame dinner was a lively group as all of the inductees are friends and have bowled together for many, many years! We will have a video soon to publish for everyone to enjoy.  The stories were amazing and the raffle winners were the highlight of the night!

CONVENTION

CONVENTION 2024


JUNE 1-2, 2024

Holiday Inn Ontario Airport

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS with CREDENTIALS SUBMITTED:

Chico USBC
Citrus Belt USBC
Golden Empire USBC
Greater LA County USBC
Monterey Peninsula USBC
North County USBC
San Gabriel Valley USBC
Santa Clara County USBC
Sierra Gold USBC
Stockton USBC
Ventura County USBC

CONVENTION DOCUMENTATION

2024 Convention Reports – Committees
2024 Convention Reports – Officers and Directors
2023 Annual Meeting Minutes
2023 By-Laws
2024 Legislation
Point Solutions app – Android | Apple
Financial Statements will be provided at the meeting

SAVE THE DATE… May 31, 2025
ONE DAY EVENT in San Jose

Convention weekend was busy.  An association forum was held where a few topics were brought up.  The first discussion was for Association Managers and others to understand what is the correct book average that should be uploaded into BOWL.com. The answer is league ending averages only! NOT January 1, April 15 or May 31. Also, summer leagues must end by October 1. This means that summer averages must be posted on BOWL.com and the league will re-certify (on the back end) with the new season. League sheets can continue as normal. When that winter league ends, the summer pinfall must be extracted out so that only the new winter league average will be posted. SEE HANDOUT

We also discussed why we are modifying the California State Championships to be team and singles event only. There are many reasons that led us to this decision. See attached Why no doubles flyer.

Jarrod Gallegos from USBC came out to run the Jamboree section of the weekend. He updated us on the current status of USBC. One new items that will start August 1, 2024 is that local cards can be purchased on BOWL.com. That is exciting and very useful for those that bowl tournaments and sub in different associations.

Our awards dinner was held Saturday evening.  We honored six Hall of Fame inductees and three youth scholarships winners. It was star studded affair as were finally able to induct two California icons, Glenn Allison and Donna Adamek. They are the second group to join our new Professional Performance category. Last year, we inducted Barry Asher and Mike McGrath.

Our other honorees in the Superior Performance category were Ty Dawson, Pam Pancoast and Bob Warning. There was so much history and admiration in the room, it was a tremendous evening. We did have a videographer there so we will be posting the dinner speeches very soon. The stories were all great. Our Meritorious Service honoree, Dave Williams was unable to attend.  He is anxiously awaiting for the video.

We also honored our youth with three scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $2,500. Congratulations to Stephanie Hong and Ryland Pimentel for winning the $2,500 Star of Tomorrow Award. Arden Han-Wei and Ashley Soto won the $1,000 CA Youth State Scholarship and Ashley also won the $1,000 Braheme Family Memorial Scholarship that we manage for the family of George & Ola Braheme. Each Hall of Fame inductee is posted on facebook with their bios. CONGRATULATIONS to the California USBC class of 2024!

CONGRATULATIONS 2024 HALL of FAME INDUCTEES and SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS!

CONVENTION

CONVENTION 2023

HOTEL PICCADILLY
Fresno
JUNE 10-11, 2023

Andre Eubanks, Tom Leigh, Steve Johnson, Linda Stewart
Pauline Armstrong, Cindy Akin, Amber Waybright, Terri Azvedo, Lynn Matsubara

2023 Legislation that passed:
PA #1: Article V – Board of Directors – Management /
Section A. Board Composition, Authority and Duties
Lowered the Director count for the State Board  from 15 to 13

PA #2: Article VII – Meetings / Section A. Annual Meeting
Allows two delegates instead of one for local associations with 200 or less members.

PA #3: Article VII – Meetings / Section A. Annual Meeting
Lowered the Annual Meeting quorum from 40 to 25.

PA #4: Article VII – Meetings / Section B. Board Meeting
Lowered the quorum from 10 to 9 for State Board meetings.

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS with CREDENTIALS SUBMITTED:

Central California USBC
Chico USBC
Citrus Belt USBC
Contra Costa County USBC
Gr LA County USBC
Grass Valley/NV City USBC
Humboldt USBC
Modesto USBC
Monterey Peninsula USBC
North County USBC
Orange County USBC
Peninsula USBC
San Diego USBC
San Gabriel Valley USBC
Santa Barbara USBC
Santa Clara County USBC
Sierra Gold USBC
Stockton USBC
Ventura County USBC

CONVENTION DOCUMENTATION

2023 Convention Reports – Committees
2023 Convention Reports – Officers and Directors
2022 Meeting Minutes
2022 By-Laws
2023 Legislation
Financial Statements

Thank you to everyone who attended our meeting!

SAVE THE DATE FOR 2024…
June 1-2
Holiday Inn Ontario Airport