‘Everyone would cheer for each other’

Olivia Linscomb could barely throw a ball when she joined the McCallum Bowling Team. 

A sophomore student on the hunt for a P.E. credit, Linscomb was aware of the bowling team, but hadn’t knocked down any pins since she was young enough to use bumpers. 

“I hung out with some of my friends at Dart Bowl once and when we played a game for fun, I did surprisingly well, so they all convinced me to join,” she said. “I was terrified.”

Linscomb’s nerves didn’t last long. 

 “As soon as I got there, everybody was super nice and they helped me a ton,” she said. “We would just hang out, and we liked spending time with each other.”

Many laughter-filled practices and shoe returns later, Linscomb sat with her friends at Dart Bowl, huddled together between two tables with girls from Hendrickson High School’s team. 

“There were only two girls teams, so it was just us and the Hendrickson team for games,” she said. “Every time we went up and had our turn, everyone would cheer for each other, and we would just joke around.”

Linscomb says she’ll miss the bowling alley, but not just for the lanes. 

“Whenever I go to the Pflugerville bowling alley, it’s all modernized with touch screens and all that,” she said. “But at Dart Bowl you have the really old chairs, tables, the little control pads for screens, and it was great seeing the same faces every time.”

“I loved it.”