ARLINGTON,
Texas - The United States
Bowling Congress has selected two future sites for the Open
Championships, including a move to the east, while the Women's
Championships is heading to the Midwest and Gulf Coast.
The USBC
Open Championships will return to the Oncenter Convention
Center in Syracuse, N.Y., in 2018, and the Baton Rouge
River Center in Baton Rouge, La., will host the 2025 tournament as
part of a multi-year agreement also involving the USBC
Women's Championships. Syracuse last hosted the Open
Championships in 1999, and Baton Rouge welcomed the event in 2005 and
2012.
"We understand the importance of
bringing the Open Championships east and feel our bowlers will be very
happy with these selections," USBC Executive Director Stu Upson
said. "Syracuse and Baton Rouge have been great partner cities,
and we are thrilled to have the event visit these regions once
again."
Three sites have been decided for the
Women's Championships. The 2017 tournament will be held at the Baton
Rouge River Center, and in 2019, Northrock Lanes and
Thunderbird Bowl in Wichita, Kan., will host the tournament. The 2021
Women's Championships will take place in Mobile, Ala., at the Arthur
R. Outlaw Convention Center.
"The USBC Women's Championships will feature a variety of venues
and locations in the coming years," Upson said. "The change
to four-person teams has the potential to generate a new audience for
this event, and we hope the excitement of these city selections will
help the tournament grow."
The 2017 and 2021 tournaments will be
held in the convention-center setting made popular at the Open
Championships and introduced at the Women's Championships in 2010. The
unique atmosphere includes specially-constructed lanes, vendor and
office space and the world's largest mobile scoreboard.
In Wichita, the tournament will return to the roots of the Women's
Championships and be held in two traditional bowling centers. It will
be the 100th tournament in Women's Championships history. The
tournament first was held in 1916.
USBC continues to explore options for a multi-year agreement with
popular destination cities to complement the tournaments that will
take place in Reno as part of the contract extension announced last
year.
| 2025 |
Baton Rouge, LA |
|
| 2018 |
Syracuse, NY |
|
| 2017 |
TBD |
|
| 2016 |
Reno, NV |
|
| 2015 |
El Paso, TX |
|
| 2014 |
Reno, NV |
|
| 2013 |
Reno, NV |
10,000+ |
| 2012 |
Baton Rouge, LA |
11,794 |
| 2011 |
Reno, NV |
12,837 |
| 2010 |
Reno, NV |
14,189 |
| 2009 |
Las Vegas, NV |
17,200 |
| 2008 |
Albuquerque, NM |
12,615 |
| 2007 |
Reno, NV |
16,235 |
| 2006 |
Corpus Christi, TX |
12,606 |
| 2005 |
Baton Rouge, LA |
13,222 |
| 2004 |
Reno, NV |
16,585 |
| 2003 |
Knoxville, TN |
12,203 |
| 2002 |
Billings, MT |
10,806 |
| 2001 |
Reno, NV |
16,104 |
| 2000 |
Albuquerque, NM |
10,688 |
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