Chad Murphy sees small decline in USBC membership in his '2024 Recap, 2025 Preview'

After USBC Executive Director Chad Murphy released his “2023 Recap, 2024 Preview” last January, the headline of my story asked the rhetorical question, “Has USBC membership stabilized?” In 2013-14, the season Murphy took over the helm of USBC, membership was 1,698,911. In 2018-19, the last full pre-pandemic season, it had fallen to 1,293,000, while 2019-20 saw membership fall to 1,210,000. The 2020-21 season membership was hardest hit by the pandemic at 850,699, with memb...