Welcome back for another season of the Master Bowlers Association of Alberta.

National Update – Surrey

Congratulations to the Tournament Men Dexter Wiseman, Tyler Tytgat, Rylan Willier, Matt Schulz, Shelby Crest and coach Harvie Pocza who brought home gold. The men dominated the tournament winning their first thirteen matches. They set a few National records in the process.

Tournament Women won bronze getting edged out by 1 point for silver. Congratulations to Bonnie McDonald, Jennifer Smith, Christine Pocza, Jennifer Swartz, Heidi Mapstone coached by Geoff Wilson.

In Tournament Singles play Bradly Tytgat won silver while Jenna Lamouroux came 6th.

Congratulations to JR Harrop who won Teaching Mens Singles Gold while the Teaching Mens team finished 4th, 2 points out of Bronze.

Teaching Women finished 6th while Shaylene Smith finished a point back of the bronze in singles play. Last minute replacement, Taryn Beattie won the MBAC POA singles pot with a 365!

Seniors finished 6th. Greg Gigliuk set a new hi average record for Seniors with an outstanding 278.8 for the 21 games at 3 different houses.

Heidi Mapstone, Matt Schultz and Greg Gigliuk earned MBAC All Star status. This is the first year MBAC has created All Stars based on pure statistics from the games bowled at Nationals.

For all the results check the Master Bowlers Association of Canada website.  Click on the link:

Master Bowlers of Canada || Home

Registering For Tournaments

To assist our tournament directors and hosting proprietors, we are asking for your cooperation when participating in our tournaments.

You must Pre-Register with the zone directors a week prior to the tournament. This will allow the proprietors to book the appropriate number of lanes for the tournament. This also helps the proprietor enter names into the electronic scoring before the tournament begins. These actions will help in getting our tournaments started on time. 

Bowl Alberta will continue with the “no show” policy. If the bowler does not show to the event, the proprietor will be charging the Master Bowlers the lineage for that person.  Those charges will need to be passed onto the bowler and the bowler will be charged the amount. The bowler will not be a member in good standing until the amount is paid.  Bottom line, it may come to “you are saying you are going to be there then you will need to show up or cancel one week prior”.

Your zone directors are:

	Home	Work	e-mail
Zone One
Michelle Armstrong	(780) 712-4394	(780) 723-4617	micharm@telus.net
Zone Two
Rollie Poitras	(780) 645-5261		p.rollie@hotmail.com
Zone Three
Carol Bailey	(780) 831-7357	Cell-(780) 228-1778	tomcar@telus.net
Zone Four
Dorry Mielke	(780) 884-1719		milkydm@hotmail.com
Zone Five
Karen Tanke	(403) 820-2269		ktanke@shaw.ca
Zone Six
Sarah Simmons	(403) 988-6211		ssimmons81@gmail.com
Zone Seven
Shirley Kultgen	(403) 527-7823		malkey@telus.net
Zone Eight
Rob Miklos	(403) 393-1110
Tourn. Division Directors
Bradley Tytgat	(403) 288-6557		brad.tytgat@gmail.com
Dexter Wiseman	(780) 886-4504		dtdwiseman@gmail.com
Senior Division Director
Bev Gigliuk	403-597-7674		bgigliuk@gmail.com
Teaching Division Director
Dorry Mielke and Brian Sudbury	Dorry -As above Brian – (403) 585-3628		Dorry – As above Brian – brian.sudbury534 @gmail.com

Alberta 5 Pin Cards

MBA of A members competing in qualifying tournaments must be a member in good standing with the Alberta 5-Pin Bowlers’ Association and the Master Bowlers’ Association of Alberta. The 5 pin card must be purchased through a local proprietor or directly through the Alberta 5 pin office.

Tournament Schedule

Enclosed you will find the schedule for the season’s upcoming tournaments. Please remember to check future newsletters and with your zone directors for notices of change of location, dates or times.  Sometimes changes do have to be made and we do not want anyone missing out or arriving for a tournament on the wrong day.  You are able to link to the schedule on our website:

Schedule | Master Bowlers’ Association of Alberta (mbaofa.ca)

Cost of Tournaments

Teaching and Senior Division tournament fees are $110.  The Youth Fee for the Teaching Division (under 21) is $65.  Tournament Division tournament fees are $135.  The Youth Tournament Fee (under 21) is $90.

Casino Volunteers

Our Casino dates are March 8 and 9, 2026. Please mark them on your calendar and plan to volunteer. We cannot qualify for casinos without volunteers. This is our major fundraiser that helps us pay for nationals.

E-Transfers and Mail In Renewals

All renewals will be able to be done by e-transfers this year.  Here is the link on our website Renewal Form | Master Bowlers Association of Alberta.

Please note what will be different with an e-transfer.  The proprietor, that would normally sign your renewal, will receive an email asking them to sign the renewal.  You will not need to go directly to the proprietor to sign them.  This is for e-transfer only.

Don’t worry if you prefer to send in your renewal, you still can. Use this link to get your mail in form. 2025-26-mba-renewal-and-application-form-1.docx

Master & Youth Tournament

Included with this newsletter you will find an entry form for the Master & Youth Tournament.  These entry forms are to be forwarded to Paradise Lanes. Mark Miller’s information is included on the entry form.

The Master & Youth Tournament will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 25 & 26, 2025 at Paradise Lanes in Calgary.  The start times on October 25 is 2:00 p.m. (1st shift) and 6:00 p.m. (2nd shift).  The 3rd shift is on October 26 at 9:00 a.m. You choose the shift you prefer to bowl.  The entry fee is $50.00 per bowler!

Please be sure to include your phone number on the entry form.  This is in the event that you need to be contacted in the case of a time change or cancellation.  Neither are likely, but having your phone number makes this much easier!  Thank you.  The link to the Master & Youth form is:  Forms | Master Bowlers’ Association of Alberta (mbaofa.ca)

Late Renewal Fee

Please note the late fee of $20.00 if renewal fees are not paid by September 15th of the current bowling season.