PBA League Adds Two New Teams For 2020 Lineup
bowlingball.com Staff Writer
1/30/2020
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) announced January 29th, 2020 that they will be adding two new teams to the PBA League. This will increase the teams from eight to ten teams for the Elias Cup event at Bayside Bowl in Portland, ME in July 2020.
The two teams will represent a new city - Las Vegas and Milwaukee. The new manager of the Las Vegas “High Rollers” will be Amleto Monacelli and the manager of the Milwaukee team will be Marshall Holman. The Milwaukee team has not yet been named. Bowling fans will have the opportunity to name the team on PBA’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. The winning team name will be chosen by the PBA and announced publicly at the PBA League Draft. The person who suggests the winning team name will receive a customized bowling ball and pin autographed by the whole Milwaukee team.
The PBA Draft will be held during the PBA World Series of Bowling XI on March 15th, 2020 in Las Vegas. The eight existing teams may protect up to three players from the 2019 roster. Teams will then pick bowlers out of the draft pool based on the reverse order of how they finished in 2019. Player eligibility for the draft pool is based on the top 75 players in combined competition points earned during both the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
