![Xavier bowler Tara Trcka won the Class 1A state title a year ago as a sophomore. She is pictured here at May City Bowl, where she practices twice a week, works part time and bowls in tournaments on weekends. The bowling alley is owned by her parents. (Photo by Sher Jasperse)](/images/resized/images/photos/xavier/girlsbowling/12_200_218.jpg)
Xavier's Trcka at home on the lanes
No, Tara Trcka was not born in a bowling alley. It just seems that way.
“I grew up here ever since I can remember,” she says of May City Bowl, which her parents purchased the year before she was born. “It’s been my second home.”
The Xavier junior hoisted her first bowling ball – a 6-pound “Mini-Mouse” – at age 3 and never stopped rolling.
Through untold hours spent practicing and competing in youth leagues over the last 13 years, she has rolled her way into elite company among high school bowlers.
Trcka (pronounced “terch-ka”) is part of a large Czech-heritage family that is loaded with bowlers. Her parents, aunts, uncles and cousins all bowl, she says.
Read more...