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April 12, 2016

Vanderbilt is one of eight teams competing at the NCAA Bowling Championship Thursday-Saturday at the Brunswick Zone Carolier in North Brunswick, N.J.

The official tournament site is northeasternconference.org/ncaabowl and on Twitter @NEDsports. Vanderbilt will provide coverage on its Twitter @VandyBowling and on its official web page.

All qualifying and bracket rounds will be livestreamed on www.NCAA.com with the championship final televised live on ESPNU Saturday, April 16 at 5:30 p.m. Central time. There will be a televised tape delay Sunday, April 17 on ESPN at 5:30 p.m.

NCAA Championship rules limit the number of student-athletes that can be in uniform and eligible to participate to 10. Vanderbilt’s roster includes seniors Tori Ferris, Amanda Fry, Robyn Renslow, Olivia Wirtz, juniors Giselle Poss, Nicole Powell and Kendyll Dellinger, sophomore Katie Stark and freshmen Kristin Quah and Jordan Newham.

Vanderbilt carries a season record of 101-37 into the event, the most wins in a season in program history. It has been rated third nationally most of the season by the NCAA coaches’ poll.

Qualifying games are traditional team games, the bracket games are best of seven Bakers. Block 1 of the qualifying (5 matches) begins Thursday at 11:50 CENTRAL. Block 2 (5 matches) starts Friday at 9:50 CENTRAL. Bracket play begins Friday at 2:30 CENTRAL.

The Commodores were seventh at this event a year ago in St. Louis. On these same Brunswick Zone lanes, Vanderbilt has won two tournaments this year – the Fairleigh Dickinson Invitational in the fall and the Monmouth Invitational this spring.

The team flew nonstop into New York City Tuesday and toured the United Nations and had dinner on Times Square before departing for the team hotel in New Brunswick. The tour is in a long line of educational side trips that Coach John Williamson arranges before tournaments begin. Previous trips to the Big Apple included stops at the 911 Museum, Central Park and Empire State Building.

The annual NCAA Awards Banquet occurs Wednesday evening with the announcement of the All-America teams and major individual honors highlighting the agenda.