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General Category => Youth Bowling => Topic started by: john178 on June 16, 2014, 12:29:42 PM
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My grandson is 3 years old. Is he too young to participate in youth league bowling ?
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Not if there's a bumper league and he is able to throw/push the ball down
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The youth league here has bumpers for 2-4 year olds. They bowl one game and just pay the league rate. If they are up to it they may bowl a second game. The house hasn't been charging us for shoes during league.
Then at 5 years old they start the next age group and no bumpers, play three games, and weekly $10.
Both are USBC sanctioned, but during summer they are just doing coaching clinics. New season starts about two weeks after local schools are back in session.
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Age 3 is totally fine, my nephew started at 3 and loved it! There are many youngsters age 2-4 playing at local alley, so your grandson should be all good.
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the youth league my older son bowls in is 3-9 for bumpers then 8-17 for no bumpers, the 8-17 league is split too.
However it's awesome, I have a 16 month who walks/crawls/stumbles down the approach and pushes the ball down the ramp, then goes back to the ball return and waits. he's got it down
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My son started bowling at 2 years old. When he was 3 we put him in a bumper league. At age 4, he got mad if the counter person asked him if he wanted bumpers. He wanted to bowl for real and did so starting at age 4 in Bantams (no bumpers).