Mike Miller, one of the co-owners
of Tenpins & More, has been a member of the Professional Bowlers
Association for many years. Mike and his sister Dana are coaches for individual and private
group classes at Tenpins & More!
Mike is a founding member of the "Rio Rancho Sports Advisory
Council", part of the tourism strategy of the Rio Rancho Convention
and Visitor's Bureau.
An unsuccessful "journeyman", he decided to make a radical
change in the way he released the ball by taking his thumb out and
in effect, palming it down the lane.
He made history shortly after by winning the first of his three
national tour titles - a major - the PBA National Championship in
1991 and almost $ 100,000 that year.
Mike added the Wichita Open the following year and the Don Carter
Classic in Dallas in 1999.
He is the second-to-last man to bowl a nationally-televised 300
game, that coming on Father's Day in 1999 at the Bowling Stadium
in Reno. It was worth
$10,000!
Recently, this fall, after a number of arthroscopic knee surgeries,
Mike returned to the winner's circle beating Texan, D.J. Archer two
games to nil to win a regional in Bernalillo, NM. It was his fifth
regional title.
Mike has a wealth of knowledge that he imparts on a daily basis
to league bowlers at the Center.
It has cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars and more than twenty
years of his life to accumulate it. No-one should be shy in asking
him to help them either.
(Little-known-fact: Mike practiced bowling in his parent's garage
when he was just a small boy).
Mike is married to Jodianne - the Center's office and lounge
manager - and has two children, Adrienne and
Chris. The couple live in Rio Rancho.
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