2024 USBC Queens win makes it undeniable: Jillian Martin is the best female bowler in the world
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 11:00 pm
Jillian Martin after winning the 2024 USBC Queens. Photo by USBC.
At the PWBA Championship Week – Waterloo last August, I watched as Jillian Martin made the stepladder finals of both tournaments she competed in.
Martin didn’t win either tournament, but she exceeded my high expectations in my first in-person look at the player who two years earlier became the youngest-ever PWBA Tour winner at 17 in the 2021 PWBA BowlTV Classic.
I marveled at the quickest release I’ve ever seen in a female bowler and the seemingly effortless power it...