Daily News | He’s the best teen bowler in Philly. Could he finally win the team trophy?
Steven Leslie aligned his custom-made gold bowling shoes to the 10th board in the lane. Then he heaved a ball, imprinted with the words “Dark Storm” and specially drilled to his fingertips, and pitched both arms forward. The ball shot ahead, almost as if headed for the gutter, before hooking left.But Leslie, captain of Abraham Lincoln High School’s bowling team, was no longer paying attention to the pin deck.
In the grand scheme of Philly high school sports, perhaps Public League bowling gets short shrift. But 29 teams have been annihilating pins and racking up high scores at bowling lanes across the city since November. . The top three boys teams — Lincoln, where Leslie is captain, Carver, the reigning champions, and Boys Latin — gathered at Thunderbird Lanes on a recent afternoon to battle for the championship trophy.
Leslie, on the other hand, was a standout. His grandmother had bowled, and he’d been bowling himself for 15 years. He liked to think skill on the lanes was part of his inheritance. Even Carver’s coach, Kevin Latchford, was impressed by Leslie’s abilities.And maybe there will be a future for Leslie on the lanes even after graduation. For now he works as a cashier at Dollar Tree when he’s not bowling; he plans to apply to college bowling scholarships for next year.
“The more relaxed you are, the more play you’ll see in the pins. They’ll dance,” said Barbara Council-Armstead, who coached Leslie in an independent youth league in Kensington and attended Temple University on a full bowling scholarship. She had come along with her husband, Donald, also a bowling coach, to watch Leslie compete and give him notes afterward.
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