2024 USBC Queens win makes it undeniable: Jillian Martin is the best female bowler in the world

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 generates,...