Williams, Dorin-Ballard earn 2003 BWAA Bowler of the Year honors
Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Carolyn Dorin-Ballard easily outdistanced their respective peers in being selected as the 2003 Bowling Writers' Association of America Bowlers of the Year.
	Williams, Ocala, Fla., had 83 of 98 first-place votes to capture the men's honor for the second consecutive year and a record seventh time in his career. Dorin-Ballard, North Richland Hills, Texas,
collected 74 of 98 top votes to take the women's award for the second time in three years. 
	Williams won two Professional Bowlers Association major titles - the U.S. Open and PBA World Championship -- in addition to a second-place finish in the 2003 American Bowling Congress Masters. He led the PBA with a 222.18 average, cashed in 16 of 20 tournaments and qualified for the single-elimination match play finals 14 times. 
	Dorin-Ballard won one event on the abbreviated Professional Women's Bowling Association schedule, the Greater Cincinnati Open, and had three other top five finishes. The U.S. Open runner-up led the PWBA in points and placed sixth in the Women's International Bowling Congress Queens. She cashed in all eight national events while leading the PWBA in average at 215.22. 
	Williams finished with 428 points, well ahead of Chris Barnes, Dallas, who had 145. Barnes had three first-place votes. Third-place Pat Healey Jr., Mexico City, had 10 top votes and 122 points, Pete Weber, St. Ann, Mo., had the other four first-place votes and 59 points and Lonnie Waliczek was fifth in the balloting with 20 points.
	Dorin-Ballard totaled 400 points, far ahead of runner-up Wendy Macpherson, Henderson, Nev., who had five first-place votes and 120 points. Michelle Feldman, Skaneateles, N.Y., was third with eight top votes and 91 points, Tiffany Stanbrough, Oklahoma City, had six first-place votes and 90 points and Kelly Kulick, Union, N.J., had the other five first-place votes and 70 points.
	Each first-place vote was worth five points, each second-place worth two and each third place one.

Shirley Levens, Bob Glass repeat as BWAA Senior Bowlers of the Year
	Shirley Levens, the 2002 winner and 2003 runner-up in the Women's International Bowling Congress Senior Queens Tournament, joined Bob Glass in being named 2003 Senior Bowlers of the Year by the Bowling Writers' Association of America.
	Both earned the same honors for 2002 with Glass making it four straight awards after also winning in 2001 and 2000.
	Levens, Cocoa, Fla., had 39 points to far outpace runner-up Andi Whitlock, Middletown, Del., with 13 and Sandy Postma, Lansing, Ill., with 12. In addition to her second-place finsh in the Senior Queens, Levens won four gold medals in the Tournament of the Americas and was first in the Regional Players Legends event. Whitlock won the 2004 WIBC Senior Queens while Postma finished third.
	Glass, the former University of Kansas economics researcher from Lawrence, Kan., won in the closest voting yet. Glass had 25 points to 23 for Dale Eagle, Taveras, Fla., and 22 for Bob Chamberlain, Auburn Hills, Mich.
	Glass had three first-place votes, but so did the other two. Glass had four seconds, one more than Eagle and two more than Chamberlain, which decided the issue. Eagle won the American Bowling
Congress Senior Masters.
	Glass won the Brunswick World Open in Las Vegas and was fifth in earnings with $423,700 cashing in all 11 events.