Bogovic Named Rookie of the Year, Four Named to 2026 Women's Bowling All-Conference Teams

The 25th-ranked Kutztown University women's bowling team placed four student-athletes on the All-East Coast Conference Teams, headlined by ECC Rookie of the Year and All-ECC First Team bowler Madilyn Bogovic (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff).

Joining Bogovic on the All-ECC squads is sophomore Kamryn Brenneman (York, Pa./Central York), who was named an All-ECC Second Team bowler, and the duo of Isabella Hopper (Mifflinville, Pa./Berwick) and Sydney Snyder (Morrisville, Pa./Conwell-Egan Catholic), who each claimed a spot on the Third Team.

Bogovic, who jumped on the KU bowling train after a Rookie of the Year season for the Golden Bears' volleyball team, came out firing on all cylinders as the team's anchor for the second half of the season. The Mechanicsburg, Pa., native's stat sheet can be rivaled with the nation's top NCAA bowlers. In traditional play, the rookie averaged 21.11 pins per frame, filling 87.5 percent of frames while striking on 55 percent of opportunities and converting on 72.2 percent of spares. She elevated her game in baker play, toppling 21.25 pins per frame on an 87.6 percent fill clip, striking on 54.4 percent of opportunities while converting 72.7 percent of spares.

The recognition the Cedar Cliff High School product earned rewrote record books. She earned all five possible rookie of the week honors, as well as a bowler of the week recognition for her performance at the Griffin Baker Classic. Her stretch of five straight ECC top rookie bowler honors was a conference record, and her five total recognitions put her one behind teammate Kamryn Brenneman's (York, Pa./Central York) six such total honors earned in her 2025 Rookie of the Year campaign a season ago. Notably, Bogovic's recognition as the Rookie of the Year in both volleyball and bowling is the only known occurrence of a Division II dual sport athlete earning top conference rookie honors in the same season.

Brenneman built a power tandem with Bogovic on her way to a Second Team recognition, continuing to add onto her resume after her Rookie of the Year and All-ECC First Team performance from a season ago. Her strong season was highlighted by a baker average of 19.39 pins per frame on an 81.9 percent fill mark, where she struck on 47 percent of attempts and converted nearly 66 percent of second-chance shots while bowling from the fourth and fifth spots in the lineup throughout the year. In team competition, she bowled just shy of a 19-pin average per frame on a 79.2 fill rate, striking 44 percent of the time while converting spares at a 62.9 percent clip.

Hopper had a stellar rookie season in the Maroon and Gold, as her Third Team honor is highlighted by baker statistics that place her among the top rookies in the conference. She achieved an 18.93 average per frame on a 78.3 percent fill rate, while boasting a near-70 percent success rate on first-ball shots and topping nearly half of her strike attempts. She was also a key contributor in traditional play throughout the season, filling 70.5 percent of frames while averaging 17.43 pins, including an 8.71 first ball mark on the season.

Snyder joined her rookie teammate on the Third Team, making her first appearance on an All-Conference team in her fourth season at KU. The Morrisville, Pa., native had strong numbers in baker play, including an 18.39 average that filled 79 percent of frames, where she also converted nearly two-thirds of her spare shots. Her team play numbers also ranked among the best on the team, as she averaged 17.13 pins per frame while filling 73 percent of frames and securing a 61.6 percent first-ball success rate.

The four honorees from the 2025-26 team match the same number from last season, while only Brenneman is a repeat award winner. The number continues to show the recruiting success of sixth year head coach Angela Reynolds, who has coached eight bowlers to a combined 12 All-Conference honors.

The Golden Bears (56-29 overall), who held its spot in the March edition of the National Tenpin Coaches Association polls on Monday, gear up for the East Coast Conference Women's Bowling Championship this upcoming weekend, at Hackensack, N.J.'s Bowler City Lanes, with competition between conference foes beginning Friday, March 20, and running through Sunday, March 22.