ANNOUNCEMENTS
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL!!!
HAVE A BLESSED 2012 YEAR...
2011-2012 Prize Fund selection
Prize Fund -A was selected by the league...now the competition REALLY begins!!! lol
Prize Fund A_LOWB 2011 2012 Season.pdf
GREAT Christmas Secret Santa and Pot Luck with LOWB this past Sunday the 11th of December.
Good food, great gifts and great women!!! Thanks to all who made the day so special.
To "See pictures" copy-and-paste this address into your browser:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AYt2LNs5ZOGTNpg
CHIT 30 was a success and thanks to all League Of Women Bowlers who participated...great job!!! Our own Founder did quite well by cashing in the singles event and Team event as well as bringing home a 2nd Place Team Competition trophy. Congrats all.
Movie Monster was the Halloween Tournaments Theme (see display below)
<CHIT Cupcake display
WooHoo!!!! We started Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. at Rinaldi's Riverdale Lanes...Be There to cheer us on when you can! We still have several vacancies so come on out and join us!
We've got 10 teams of 4 so far and can always use more women...so grab your friends and come out and bowl with us.
The Organizational Mtg had the following changes/updates made to our By-Laws for our 2011-2012 Season...click on link to review:
LOWB Revised By-Laws from 2010-2011005.pdf
***To join the league, which bowls on Sundays, at 4:30 p.m. at Rinaldi's Riverdale Lanes contact our Secretary (info is on our Contact Us page of this web site). Our next (6th) season begins August 21, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. at Rinaldi's Riverdale Lanes on Kenilworth Ave, Riverdale, Maryland.
Newest GLBT League "The Rainbowl League"
CC Ford has a new league of gay men and women forming November 1st at the AMF College Park Lanes in Maryland bowling on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. with teams of 3 per team for $18 per week. Each bowler finishing the full season gets a pair of Ruby Red Bowling Shoes! For more info visit: http://www.therainbowlleague.com
STILL IN NEED OF BOWLERS TO GET THIS LEAGUE GOING...CONTACT CC FORD 202-997-3918
We defended our CARA Championship Title on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 9:00a.m. at Rinaldi's Riverdale Lanes...
this year's team was: Julia Johnson - Ulari Waller - Jackie Wilson-Mareena Nep hew -Yvette Guilbert
We ended up in 3rd Place after some tough competition. 2011 Champs are the CARA Sunday league...CONGRATULATIONS
to them...see a photo show of the tournament at Photo Show website: http://www.photoshow.com/watch/rR4Mw5qR
IGBO Mid Year 2010 Tournament 
IGBO Mid Year Tournament in DC Video Photo Show
Hosted by the DC IGBO Committee ...
The tournament went well...the Women's Social Event was a success!
League Of Women Bowlers had 24 registered bowlers and a team that placed 8th in team events! CONGRATULATIONS!
Watch interviews of IGBO bowlers including our own Tyree Ellison as Ebony Bell of Metro Weekly spoke to tournament bowlers during the weekend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVU3S7WpVc4
More tournament info at www.IGBOMY2010.org ...more pics/videos on Facebook
GRITS Women's Only Tournament
held in Richmond, Va will take place Friday, June 3-5th 2011...sign up at www.igbo.org.
Last year's weekend (June 5th-6th 2010) had 20 League Of Women Bowler members participate.The only IGBO Women's Tournament on the East Coast was hosted by Meg Powell and her committee with hospitality like none other!!! We congratulate her and her committee for a wonderful tournament and look forward to next year! We all had a ball and came home with many awards and recognition status above and beyond our wildest dreams. For most of our first time tournamet participants there was glee and joy. Our League Founder CC Ford, was Guest Speaker at the Banquet. Winners were Singles: 1st Place Daphne Berwald, 3rd Place Shae Agee Doubles: 1st Place Bobbi Henry and Shaunita Middleton, 2nd Place Daphne Berwald and Mareena Nephew, 3rd Place Tamera (from Richmond) and Milly Grayson Team: 1st Place Shaunita Middleton-Marcia Noble- Bobbie Henry-Cynthia Keitt 2nd Place Gwen Hinton-Mareena Nephew-Daphne Berwald-Kriston Wright 3rd Place CC Ford-Crystal Strother-Pat Williams-Joyce Mackey All Events 1st Place Marcia Noble 2nd Place (Tie) Daphne Berwald and Shaunita Middleton High Game Scratch Shaunita Middleton (241) High Series Scratch Marcia Noble (671) All Events Division A Renee Willis (1192) Division B Daphne Berwald (1497) Division C Shaunita Middleton (1713) CONGRATULATIONS LADIES...JOB WELL DONE!
LEAGUE OF WOMEN PARTICIPANTS: Shae Agee-Daphne Berwald-Paula Campbell-Kristen Ezzell-CC Ford-Milly Grayson-Tanya Harrel-Barbara Henry-Gwen Hinton-Loretta Jones-Cynthia Keitt-Joyce Mackey-Marsha McBride-Valerie Myers-Mareena Nephew-Wendy Potts-Crystal Strother-Renee Willis-Kirston Wright-Juanita Wright
GRITS IGBO Tournament 2010
Our season ended Sunday, May 9th...our Annual Awards Banquet was Saturday, May 15th...thanks for your support...
our 5th season will begin the first part of September 2010 on a Sunday at 5:30p.m....keep posted for exact date...
We are looking for more bowlers so please sign up ahead of time as an indv to be placed on a team or bring a team and/or a friend or two with you to join the league...go to our "Contact Us" page on this web site to sign up by sending an email with your contact info... see you in September...have a blessed summer!
Congratulations to League Of Women Bowlers for winning again the CARA End Of Season Tournament!!!! 2010 Champs!!!
DC has passed the law for Same-Sex Marriages!!! Way to go DC. Many couples will marry in DC as of March 9th 2010!
CONGRATULATIONS to the ten League Of Women Bowlers who won a FREE ENTRY to the IGBO Mid-Year Tournament at our Awards Banquet...Dee Chiedo, TD Harrell, Vanessa Lee, Nita Jones, DJ Johnson, Gwen Inman, Brittany Dean, Daphne (gave hers to Kirston Wright, Celeste Bland, and Angela Master.
Congratulations to our Mareena Nephew for placing 4th in her division of the CARA Roll-Off Tounament and winning a $100 voucher! CARA will hold it's second Roll-Off March 13th thru March 27th... www.carabowling.org
Welcome to all the new women joining our league this season...we are pleased to have one and all! See "Commentary Page" for new members and team rosters. "See our League Statistics Page" for current weekly standings.
If you need equipment to get started, please visit our CARA supporter bowling shop in Virginia: Sports Plus/Carmon Don's Pro Shop...see link below for CARA members discounts CARA Bowlers discounted equipment.doc ...print out the flyer and take it with you. If you're a CARA league member make sure you tell them. See you on the lanes Sundays at 5:15p.m.
Community Life Newsletters
Make sure you check our Community Life Newsletter page on this web site for all the latest info happening in the GLBT Community of DC/Md/Va. They are celebrating their 5th anniversary...check out their newsletter for all the activities. Last tab on the left<
Keep up with local groups and activities:
visit the web sites or facebook for other GLBT local groups to join in more sports fun:
CARA (Capital Area Rainbowlers Association) has 16 bowling leagues in Md and Va
www.carabowling.org
IGBO (International Gay Bowling Organization) has tournaments throughout the country
www.igbo.org
LACE...Great fun for all! More info call CC at 202 997-3918 or visit www.lacedc.com
AWARDS BANQUET
Our Annual Awards Banquet is our way of honoring our bowlers for their many and varied accomplishments with their bowling skills. Our supporters are also welcome to join us in this recognition. We've had quite a few leaps and bounds this season...from becoming the Largest Women's League on the East Coast accepted into the International Gay Bowling Organization to record membership enrollment of 85 women into the league.
We had a ball and everyone was elated.
CARA Tournament Champions
Two Years In A Row CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We shocked the CARA tradition ...we are also the 2010 CHAMPS
2010 Champions pictured with CARA President Les...(from left to right) Yvette-Sharon-Julia-Brittany-Mareena
The League Of Women Bowlers became the first women's league to win the CARA End-Of-Season Tournament held March 28th 2009! The competition is between all of the CARA leagues. This is the first season a Maryland league has won also, so we bring honors to CARA in many ways. CONGRATULATIONS ladies! This honor will be ours for the next year until the tournament is held at our lanes in Riverdale,Md. With the advantage of bowling on our own lanes it looks like we may shock the CARA tradition once again...woohoo!
Pooh, Sharon, Julia, Patricia and Cynthia (pictured with CARA Tournament
Director Gary) League Of Women Bowlers CHAMPION Team 2008-2009
Past Announcements/History
Team DC and the GLBT Community at the Gay Games IX Rally
*** Team DC has proposed a bid to host the Gay Games IX in DC year 2014...there was a Rally (in support of the bid proposal) on Saturday, Feb 21st at 11a.m. at the Kennedy Rec Center...it was a huge success...congrats to Team DC and the LGBT community.
***IGBO (International Gay Bowling Organization) voted to accept membership of the League of Women Bowlers at their Mid-Year Membership Meeting in San Diego, California Nov 15, 2008. We are 1 of 7 international lesbian leagues and the largest lesbian East Coast League in IGBO.
***DC Bid 2010 was also voted in to host the IGBO Mid-Year Tournamant here in DC November 2010...our league will play a major
role in the women's events since CC is the DC IGBO Mid-Year Women's Social Chairperson...we look forward to the challenge with enthusiasm.
Our Fall season got off to a great start with the joining of
57 new members and 87 total women bowlers!
...so that now gives us 16 teams of 4 members each (some teams have a 5th member/alternate) and we have a total of with 15 subs.
We can only add substitutes as the league is now full for 08-09.
Let's see how many we can get for next season.....come on and join us as a substitute,
you won't regret it and that's for sure!!! ...woowee!!!
The League of Women Bowlers welcomes 57 new members 2009: Akilah Adams,Kim Alexander,Natalie Robin Anderson, Jennifer Baker,Michelle Ballard, Hazel Batchelor,Gina Baylor, Daphne Berwald, Paula Campbell, Josell Carson, Colette Cherry, Melody Coston-Clayton, Denise Christian, Margarita Cruz, Brittany Dean, Terri Derae, Patricia Dickerson, Earl Dill, Cynthia Dunlap, Bonita Evans, Oremi Gaddy, Kesha Gilchrist, Millie Grayson,Yvette Guilbert, Charnay Henderson, Mickey Higgs, Delise Holloman, Marleah Isom, Peaches Jackson, Fenicia Johnson, Loretta Jones, Candise Jordan, Cynthia Keitt, Joyce Mackey, Leslie McCrae, Shanica Mayo, Sandra Meaders, Lydia Melton, Dawn Moore, Mareena Nephew, Gia Nichols, Lashana Pace, Wendy Potts, Elsie Price, Mary Rodgers, Colette Sanford, Priscilla Scott, Dana Swain, Sharon Taylor, Lisa Thompson, Delores Washington, Ginger Waters, Carol Westmoreland, Keisha Whitlock, Darlene Williams, Juanita Wright & Marian Wright.
*** Our Fall 2008-2009 Season began Sunday, September 7th,
2008 at our new location...Rinaldi's Riverdale Bowl and our
start time is always 5:30p.m. ...we start warming up at
5:15p.m....why not join us!!!
Hope to see you and your friends joining us for our 3rd Fall Season. Don't miss
out...SIGN UP NOW ON OUR "CONTACT US" PAGE to be a substitute by emailing
your contact info so that we may get in touch with you...
(note: by signing up to join you agree to bowl every Sunday that you possibly
can for the entire 32 week commitment from September to around the first of
May...you can also sign up to bowl as a substitute...this does not obligate you to
every Sunday...a sub can bowl when a team member is absent...a sub joining must
pay the $19 Sanction Fee and does not pay the weekly fee whenever they sub for an
absent bowler)
*** CONGRATULATIONS to our league Founder CC Ford on two
very special events in her life...1st, she drove to Hollywood
California with her partner Joyce and they legally married on
July 17th! and 2nd, Team DC Sports First Annual Champion's
Awards Reception honored sports leaders in our community
including CC Ford with the MVP Award for her work throughout
the past year with our league!!! What an honor on both
accounts... congratulations CC...way to go!!!
(go to www.teamdc.org for tickets and more info on the awards) also click > /Documents/Team DC Awards 08.pdf
and/or MVP Award Sept 08.pdf
*** Capital Pride Weekend was spectacular...we were represented in the parade
on Saturday with several members that marched with the CARA group and
again at the CARA table during Sundays events downtown...
*** AWARDS BOWLING BANQUET2009 was a huge success...many awards, trophies, certificates and worthy recognitions were given.
*** 
League of Women Bowlers Rocked the Richmond GRITS Tournament the weekend of May 30th!!!
Bringing home the honors of All Events 2nd Pl was "Say Say" and she also got awarded for 1st Pl in the Singles Competition and her Partner Toni Kelly and her took honors for 1st Pl in the Doubles
Competition...Pooh and Julia took 3rd in Doubles and Nadine took 3rd in Singles...CC and Vanessa took pride in being awarded also
...even though it was for Low Score Doubles...lol...it was all good because their team took honors for having the Best Team Name "Entyceeingly Good"!!! Thanks to Meg Powell (Tournament Director) and her great group of ladies for sponsoring such a fun tournament...we'll be back next year for GRITS...
*** 
CC also participated in the International Gay Bowling Organization (IGBO) in Atlanta, Ga at their Annual Memorial Day Weekend Tournament ...as a bowler and as the Chairperson of the Ladies Social for the 2010 Bid for DC ...DC lost out on the bid to host this awesome tournament in 2010 to the
Columbus, Ohio group but we racked up in the winnings with one of our male CARA League members winning the top awards in just about every category...congratulations to all our CARA Bowlers who represented DC quite well......it was fabulous!!!
*** CARA Tournament Results (March 2008)
Our members participated in one of their first ever tournaments: the CARA Intra-League Tournament
...we were represented by Julia-Bobbi-Colleen-Sharon and Neicey
They won 8 games and lost 2 to place 2nd Overall and 3rd in the Finals!!! Woohoo!!! Way to go ladies...
OUTSTANDING SCORES
IN THE CARA 8-PIN NO TAP TOURNAMENT
Proud to announce we won the tournament with our
1st Place Winner Nadine Rawles
Her winning scores were:
262/279/267 = 781 scratch series (Shift1) <1st Place 
($125.00 award ck)
239/183/228 games = 650 series (shift 2) <6th Place Nadine>
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Others placed well also... out of the 33 total participants...
Dee Chiedo 253/198/226 = 677 <8th Place
CC Ford 215/257/222 = 694 <13th Place
Marsha McBride 159/233/158 = 550 <14th Place and 168/132/111 = 411 <28th Place
Mercia Arnold 187/153/97 = 437 <22nd Place and 133/148/140 = 421 <23rd Place
Zina Gudgen 157/218/117 = 492 <25th Place
Roshelle Rossmays 135/94/135 = 364 <29th Place and 156/135/83 = 374 <30th Place
*** We had 8 participants in the CARA 9-Pin No Tap Tournament held at our house in the
AMF Laurel Lanes this past Saturday (March 8th)...we rocked the house with our
representation! CC took 1st Place with an impressive series of three games over
200...Sharon came in 3rd and Sabrina came in 4th...way to go LOWB!
*** Congratulations to all recipients of their USBC Awards:
Mercia Arnold...Ebony Banks...Dayisha Johnson...Desiree Evans...Sue
Elliott...Kesha Gilchrist...Zina Gudger...Rhonda Hughes...Marleah Isom...Diana James...
Nita Jones...Toni Kelly...Vanessa Lee...Marsha McBride...Val Myers...
Carolyn Noel...Cathy Quitto...NaDine Rawls...Monica Stepp...Rochelle Rossmays
Sub Dee Brown and we're looking forward to other new members to join this week!
THAT'S 21 NEW WOMEN JOINING OUR LEAGUE last SEASON...WOOWEE!!!!
*** Click on this link to view our 2007-2008 /Documents/Teams 2007-2008.doc
*** 2nd Season Opening Day was "yeah!" all that...as Gwen picks up her strike... 
2007-2008 Secretary CC and Vice President Pooh are even enjoying the business end of it all as one of our newest members Tammy looks on...
*** see the commentary page and photo gallery for more pics
*** see the statistics page for a recap of the games and the league standing sheet
LEAGUE OFFICERS 2008-2009
President Denise Chiedo
Vice President Colleen Crawley
Secretary Julia Johnson
Treasurer Neicey Robertson
Sgt-At-Arms Milly Grayson
and
Tyree Ellison
*** League Officers click on the link below to review "Duties of Officers"
/Documents/League Officers Duties.pdf
*** League Rules...click on this link: /Documents/LOWB Rules 2007-2008.doc
*** Share with team members the Pro Shop info on our Bowling Web Site page and
on our Supporters Page for getting equipment, balls and shoes
Reminders...
Please support our supporters...listed on our 'Supporters' page...
*** We are featured in the nationally circulated USBC bowler's magazine US BOWLER in this August 2007 issue under the League Secretaries section for our creative and special prize awards given at our First Awards Banquet. This is be such an honor!!! (View the article on our 'News Articles' page on this web site...what a nice article.)
*** Read All About Her!!!...again CC is featured in a recent article in the Metro Weekly magazine that came out the first week of September 2007, titled "Bowling for Friendship"...'Local athlete finds life after tragedy'...our league is mentioned as a sort of 'saving grace' for CC over the past year of her life...read it on our News Articles page
*** Our Annual Bowling Awards Banquets are very rewarding and memorable events!!!
Thank You to those businesses and organizations that contribute to our banquet...
Past Items of interest
Check out the article on our friend and supporter SP (Sheila Pinkston) on our News Articles page. SP was the top Female Bowler in the DC Metropolitan Area 30 yrs ago!
** Thank You league members for your continued support by bowling every season with the newly formed women's bowling league... the "LEAGUE OF WOMEN BOWLERS"! Congratulations on being one of the pioneers of what will be recognized as one of the most respectable fastest growing women-only leagues in the Metropolitan Area!
** Use the league email address: leagueofwomenbowlers2@verizon.net to contact President Denise Chiedo or Founder CC Ford or our League Secretary Julia Johnson if you have any questions or concerns.
** All members are reminded that they must have fun and encourage every member when you acknowledge a good roll .
** Remember each high five you give a bowler for a good roll rubs off on you...so that your next roll will be equally as rewarding!
*** OUR 2007-2008 NEW MEMBERS!!!