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Kelly Kulick completes a record-setting performance, and Matt Russo and Lauren Pate finish off a fairytale as 2020 Team USA Trials come to a close

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 11:00 pm
Kelly Kulick completes a record-setting performance, and Matt Russo and Lauren Pate finish off a fairytale as 2020 Team USA Trials come to a close
The champions from the 2020 Team USA Trials, left to right: Women's overall winner Kelly Kulick, men's U.S. Amateur winner Cameron Crowe, women's U.S. Amateur winner Breanna Clemmer, men's overall winner Matt Russo. Photo by United States Bowling Congress.
The 2020 Team USA Trials will forever be remembered for two things: USBC Hall of Famer Kelly Kulick’s record-setting dominance and the fairytale story of Matt Russo and Lauren Pate, who not only both made Team USA but also got engaged. Overshadowed by those two stories is a third: lefties Russo, Michael Martell and Cameron Crowe finished 1-2-3 in the men’s overall standings. Russo and Crowe are 2-handers, while Martell is a traditional 1-handed lefty. Since I wasn’t there...