Have you even run a league before? I have run many Junior Gold Travel Leagues and tournaments. Let me know more specifically where you have questions and I'll see what I can do to assist.

I have ran adult leagues before and been very active with youth bowling leagues. This is our towns first ever Jr. Gold league. I have researched the basic requirements. Am I correct that all bowlers must have either a sport sanction or Jr. Gold? This league is going to be in one house, not traveling...that is not a problem correct? Being Jr. Gold are they required to wear the collared shirts or is that up to the League director? My biggest concern is setting up the league rules, any samples you could share?

Trish:
Setting up the league is not hard, though there are a number of things you need to make sure are done. Check out this link on bowl.com to the Junior Gold page. There you will find a handbook which explains the parameters in rulling either a Junior Gold League or Tournament.

I'll check my files for electronic copies of rules I've used previously. My rules tend to be a bit elaborate, from experience, since there are always bowlers looking for loop holes in the rules.

As long as you meet the Junior Gold Program requirements for running the league and don't violate any USBC rules, you'll be all set. Sounds like you already have experience with youth leagues so this won't be much different.

Don't forget the 2009-2010 rules now allow girls who average 150 or higher to compete. All bowlers should be Junior Gold members but if not only league bowlers who are Junior Gold members will count towards your winner 'ratio'.

I don't want to overload you with information, I'll check my files and send you some stuff that should help you out.

Trish:
The Junior Gold leagues I ran were singles events though there were 4 bowlers bowling per lane. I have yet to run a multiple player team Gold League. To me, since Gold is a singles event it was important to mimic the situation as much as possible.

At worst, I think I could upload the rules to my weplay page and you could download it from there. Let me know then I'll post it.

Thanks.

Trish:
I'll post 2 sets of rules, one for a league that bowls 3 games/week and another that bowls 6 games/week on my Junior Gold Qualifying events page. Anyone can sign up for this page.

Suggest you write in language that allows you to establish a separate Girls league should you get enough of them to bowl. You also need to decide if you are running a Gold Event or Gold Premier Event. A Premier event offers the bowler something in addition to entry spot in the National Championships, such as reimbursement for travel expenses. Emphasis is on reimbursement.

I have even secured sponsors for my leagues to help them become Premier Events. I've also had league shirts made up with bowler name, league name, and sponsor logos.

Believe it's best for you to submit 3 Gold league forms since you will, in fact, be running 3 leagues. Since you'll be running 3 leagues, should not be a problem to advance champion only from each league.

You should also consider running Gold qualifying tournament(s). If you look at my Junior Gold Qualifying event page I'm running a qualifier on Aug 16. There you can see the format and rules I've been using for a tournament qualifier.

In theory that's would be great, but it's generally not practicable. I'm not sure I've ever done that in the past. I believe the National Office may want to spot check to be sure you have the required number of Junior Gold members participating.

Be sure to buy enough spots, minimum 1, with each league. If you need more because of number of bowlers participating be sure to continuously monitor the bow.com web site to be sure spots remain available. Typically all spots are purchased by Jan-Feb for the tournament to be held in July.

Also, give consideration to be sure you don't have 'extra' money and if so have a plan to give out scholarship money. Youth events are expected to be 'non-profit' events.

You should also consider offering scholarship brackets during league play. One season we issued almost $12,000 in scholarship money.

OK, don't want to overload you... so maybe you can start with this stuff

Trish:
I've uploaded the files (Jul 25). They are all PDF so you should be able to open and view them. Let me know when you've downloaded them so I can then remove them from the page.

Thanks.

No problem:
I have a page on weplay titled "Junior Gold Qualifying Events". If you get on my home page you can find it. If you still have trouble, email me at fryebowling@fryebowling.com and I'll send them to you directly. Else, you can always get in contact with my through my web site at www.fryebowling.com

Thanks.

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