| 2009 |
- Finished 3rd in the first ever MBA Master tournament on 1-11-09 with a 299 and 2-300 games on the day. Not bad for an old guy! Finally I get past #13 and going right to 14!
- Finished the year off right with a 300 the last game of league at Dream Lanes on December 29. Got number 15 to pass my friend, Terry Norton!
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| 2008 |
- Won both scratch and handicap division Doubles in the Madison Bowling Association City Tournament with partner Bill Leidich, 1531 scratch, an all time MBA doubles record! Also, Bill and I were the top scratch team in the senior division with 1452. I was the high scratch bowler in senior AE and, we also had the high scratch team with Mark Habich, and Bud Frye (4 man).
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| 2007 |
- Selected as an Outstanding Alumni for the schools of Ag, Biology, Life Sciences, and Industry at UW-Platteville
- Agri-Nutrition Consulting, Inc. has its best year ever and celebrates its 20th year anniversary.
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| 2005 |
- Expanded and remodeled the Pro-Shop and Lanes
- Completes 25 consecutive years bowling ABC Tournament.
- Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop sponsors 6 teams at the USBC National Tournament.
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| 2004 |
- Salvaged out the Pioneer Lanes at the Student Center at UW-Platteville where his bowling career started.
- 2004 installed two of the used AMF 8270 pinspotters at Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop and Lanes.
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| 2002 |
- Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop #1 finishes 19th at Billings, MT ABC tournament
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| 2000 |
- Inducted to the Madison Bowling Hall of Fame with a Madison Bowling Association composite average of 219.7 for the 15 years he had bowled in the Madison Association, the highest average at that time for an inductee.
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| 1997 |
- 300 Game at ABC Tournament in Huntsville, AL
- Selected as an Outstanding Alumni for the School of Agriculture at UW-Platteville.
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| 1994 |
- Two bowling lanes were completed at the Pro-Shop to better serve bowling customers.
- Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop #1, ABC Team finishes 8th at Toledo, OH
- Team members: Terry Norton, Bruce Herreman, Scott Lindsey, Joel Carlson, Rob Bailey
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| 1991 |
- Rob Bailey’s Pro Shop #1, ABC Team finished 2nd at Toledo, OH
- Team members: Terry Norton, Todd Clantanoff, Kevin Peirce, Chris Gibbons, and Rob Bailey
- Rob and Susie are married and Gregory Conner becomes Rob’s step-son
- Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop moved to its current home just north of Sun Prairie
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| 1989 |
- Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop #1 finishes 19th at Wichita, KS ABC Tournament
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| 1988 |
- Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop #1, ABC team finishes 3rd at Jacksonville, FL
- Team members: Terry Norton, Mike Sander, Rich Abboud, Joel Carlson, and Rob Bailey
- Won 3 scratch Tournaments in a row at Waunakee, Stoughton, and Northgate where he averaged over 260 for 8 games on the day. This was before the organization was called “MAST”.
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| 1987 |
- In July he started Agri-Nutrition Consulting and left the PBA after 10 years to concentrate on his new dairy consulting business.(www.agrinutrition.com).
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| 1986 |
- Rob had his best year as a Regional PBA member
- Started Rob Bailey’s Pro-Shop in 1986.
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| 1985 |
- National Sales Manager for Maddy Nutrition, Inc.
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| 1984 |
- Sold Bowlers Unlimited Pro-Shop in 1984 and moved to DeForest .
- Started bowling in the fall at Prairie Lanes with John Rortvedt, Pete Yelk, and Dan Chesemore. Other team members over the years included James Bailey, Joel Carlson, and Todd Steckelberg.
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| 1983 |
- Promoted to Divisional Manager with Agri-King.
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| 1981 |
- Had an 820 series and 300 game at T & C Lanes, February 5. At that time the 820 was the highest recorded series ever in Racine County.
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| 1980 |
- Bowled first ABC tournament in Memphis, TN, with Larry Smith as doubles partner.
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| 1978 |
- Joined the PBA, and set a PBA record in his first game as a pro, bowling a 300 at Don Carter’s Lanes in Rockford, Illinois on May 20, 1978, using a Brunswick Manta.
- Formed Bowlers Unlimited Pro-Shop Towne and Country Lanes in Burlington in the fall of 1978.
- High league average in 1978 was a 236 at Lake Geneva Lanes.
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| 1977 |
- Promoted to Regional Manager for Agri-King
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| 1976 |
- Moved back to Burlington, Wisconsin in the summer of 1976, (where Rob graduated from High School in 1970).
- Started bowling in many of the tournaments in the Milwaukee area including the Wisconsin Non-Pro Bowlers Tour, Bowling with the Champ’s, Wisconsin State Match Play tournaments, and State Tournaments.
- Area manager for Agri-King, Inc.
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| 1974-76 |
- Attended South Dakota State University in Graduate School in Dairy Science.
- First game bowled in league at Prairie Lanes in Brookings S.D. was a 299.
- An SDSU bowling team was formed in 1975 where Rob bowled with future ABC/USBC teammates Terry Norton and Bruce Herreman.
- Teammates Scott Lindsey and Joel Carlson also bowled on the SDSU team after Rob left.
- Drilled his first bowling ball in Mitchell, SD in early 1976.
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| 1970-74 |
- Stared bowling career at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and soon made the college bowling team and lettered in bowling in 1973 before it became a club sport
- Graduated in 1974 with a BS degree in Animal Science.
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