Reigning National Player of the Year Mabel Cummins joined the Vanderbilt bowling staff as a graduate assistant coach after her graduation from the university in the spring of 2023.
In her senior year as a student-athlete, Cummins helped lead the Commodores to the program’s third NCAA Championship title. That year, she was named the National Tenpin Coaches Association National Player of the Year and the Southland Bowling League Bowler of the Year.
From 2017 to 2023, she represented the nation on an international level as a member of Junior Team USA. She made Team USA as an adult in 2023. Cummins was a silver medalist (team) at the 2021 IBF U21 World Championships, and she won two gold medals (doubles, team) and one bronze (Masters) at the 2019 PABCON Youth Championships. In the same year, she won one gold (doubles) and one bronze medal (Masters) at the World Bowling Junior Championships. Team USA won gold in 2018 at the World Bowling Youth Championships.
Over the course of her collegiate career, she has been named to 10 all-tournament teams and has recorded two individual first-place tournament finishes. Cummins earned first-team All-America recognition for the first time in her collegiate career and NTCA all-region honors for the second. Twice, she has been named a second-team All-American, and in 2020, she was named to the honorable mention All-America list.
Cummins’ name appears several times in the Vanderbilt record books. She is the current leader in season average (215.3, 2022–23) and season strike percentage (55.6, 2021–22) and ranks second in program history in season spare percentage (80.4, 2022–23).
Academically, Cummins has been honored on the SBL Academic Honor Roll three times, the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll twice and the Dean’s List six times. During her senior year, she was named College Sports Communicators Academic All-District first team and was president of the university’s Honor Council.
All while juggling the responsibilities of being an assistant coach, Cummins will be pursuing a master’s degree in biomedical sciences and serving as the lead research assistant in an anesthesiology lab at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She plans to attend medical school.