The other half of the best brother/sister
team in bowling is Dana Miller-Mackie, who was inducted in to her
sixth Hall of Fame in Las Vegas last fall. Dana finished 4th in the 2006 Queens at Reno.
She and her brother Mike are coaches for individual and private group classes at Tenpins
& More!
Dana was added to the Professional Women's Bowling Association Hall
of Fame in recognition of her 16 national tour titles, 31 regional
crowns and another dozen wins that bring her career total to 59
championships.
There are four majors included in the national tally - the US Open
twice (1983/1990) and the Gold Cup twice (1998/1999).
Dana had already been enshrined in six others - the Indian Sports
Hall of Fame, the Albuquerque and New Mexico Women's Bowling Associations'
Hall of Fame, the Albuquerque Sports Hall of Fame and the Women's
International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame, and recently the University
of New Mexico Hall of Honor over the past twenty years. Other than
an official dinner attended by over 300, Dana and the other honorees
were presented to a record crowd of more than 44,000 at half-time
of an intrastate college football game!
Dana achieved her Bachelor of Arts for Physical Education and a
Bachelor of Science for Health at UNM in 1979 after earlier graduating
from Sandia High School.
She and husband, Steve were married in 1988 at Calvary Chapel, Albuquerque
and lived in Sydney, Australia until Steve migrated to the US in
1991. She often credits the two years bowling in Australia as rejuvenating
her career on the PWBA Tour through the decade of the 90's.
(Little-known-fact: Dana prefers to be around home but has notched
up more than one million miles of travel to more than one dozen
countries in the last 21 years).
Dana enjoys arts and crafts, including beadwork and mosaic pottery
as well as their five cats Rapha, Jireh, Shammah, Tsidkenu and Shalom,
all of whom were homeless strays.
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