Quah named Bowler of Month

Dec. 7, 2016

FRISCO, Texas -Vanderbilt’s Kristin Quah was named Southland Bowler of the Month after a pair of strong performances, the league announced Wednesday.

The Singapore native finished first out of 114 competitors at Sam Houston State’s Kat Klash in Houston, Texas, posting a traditional average of 223.0. She earned All-Tournament and MVP honors at this event and followed it up with a third place finish at last week’s Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Invitational.

Quah ranks tenth in the league through the month of November with a 20.707 scoring average through 147 frames, while filling 86.5 percent. She posted a strong 22.330 scoring average through 50 traditional frames bowled – a league-best in the month of November.

At Sam Houston State’s Kat Klash, Quah led a fourth-place overall team finish for the Commodores out of 17 competing schools. Through five games, she posted a 223.00 average with a 1,115 total pinfall. She led a strong 1-4-5 final individual standing order for Vanderbilt.

Quah helps pace a Commodore team that ranks second in the league in overall scoring average (19.818, 1400 frames) to date. Vanderbilt also ranks second in the league in team fill percentage (85.000 pct.) and team strike percentage (46.57 pct.).

Quah has been a dominant figure in Vanderbilt and collegiate bowling since arriving on the campus last year. The sophomore achieved rare back-to-back 4.0 grade point averages in biomedical engineering as a freshman while earning National Rookie of the Year and second-team All-American honors from the National Ten Pin Coaches Association.

Honorable mentions for this month’s honors included Jordan Richard (Arkansas State), Janine Kuwahara (Sam Houston State) and Michelle Ng (Tulane).

Southland Bowlers of the Month are voted on by each school’s sports information directors. Voting for one’s own school is not permitted. To receive honorable mention, a student-athlete must receive votes from 25 percent of the Southland sports information directors.