July 12, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PBA Public Relations
On the Web: PBA.com

The 2023 PBA League Draft will be held July 18 at 2 p.m. ET, streamed live on BowlTV.

The draft will begin with each of the 10 team managers, in reverse order of their finish last year, announcing up to three protected players on their rosters. Unprotected players will move to the list of draft-eligible players, which is made up of the top 75 players in 2023 PBA Tour points who aren’t already on PBA League rosters.

After all 10 teams announce their protected players, the two-round snake draft begins and the teams will fill out their five-player rosters. If any team chooses to protect fewer than three players, additional rounds will be added to the snake draft until all teams have five eligible players on their rosters.

Teams will be able to trade players until the trade deadline of July 28, after which the rosters will be final for competition in September.

Following a seeding round on September 23, the 2023 PBA League Elias Cup Playoffs will be held at Bayside Bowl in Portland, Maine September 24-27, live on Fox Sports’ FS1.

PBA League Draft Order

Round 1 (Manager Saves)
NYC KingPins (manager Carolyn Dorin-Ballard)
Silver Lake Atom Splitters (Mark Baker)
L.A. X (Andrew Cain)
Chicago Breeze (Jason Couch)
Motown Muscle (Del Ballard Jr.)
Waco Wonders (Johnny Petraglia)
Milwaukee Pounders (Marshall Holman)
Las Vegas High Rollers (Amleto Monacelli)
Dallas Strikers (Norm Duke)
Portland Lumberjacks (Tim Mack)

Round 2 (First Selections)
NYC KingPins
Silver Lake Atom Splitters
L.A. X
Chicago Breeze
Motown Muscle
Waco Wonders
Milwaukee Pounders
Las Vegas High Rollers
Dallas Strikers
Portland Lumberjacks

Current Rosters
Managers may protect up to three players

NYC Kingpins (manager Carolyn Dorin-Ballard)
Pete Weber
Marshall Kent
Darren Tang
Kyle Sherman
Michael Tang
Matt Sanders (replaced Sherman, who was out due to injury)

Silver Lake Atom Splitters (Mark Baker)
Jesper Svensson
Tom Daugherty
Chris Via
DJ Archer
Brandon Novak

L.A. X (Andrew Cain)
Jason Belmonte
Jakob Butturff
Stu Williams
Chris Barnes
Martin Larsen

Chicago Breeze (Jason Couch)
Dom Barrett
Tom Smallwood
Shawn Maldonado
Nick Pate
Jake Peters

Motown Muscle (Del Ballard)
EJ Tackett
Anthony Simonsen
Brad Miller
Mitch Hupé
Keven Williams

Waco Wonders (Johnny Petraglia)
Walter Ray Williams Jr.
BJ Moore
Thomas Larsen
Jason Sterner
Parker Bohn III

Milwaukee Pounders (Marshall Holman)
Sean Rash
Ryan Ciminelli
Dick Allen
AJ Chapman
Anthony Lavery-Spahr

Las Vegas High Rollers (Amleto Monacelli)
François Lavoie
Andrew Anderson
AJ Johnson
Matt Russo
lidemaro Ruiz Jr.

Dallas Strikers (Norm Duke)
Norm Duke
Tommy Jones
Bill O’Neill
Santtu Tahvanainen
Matt Ogle

Portland Lumberjacks (Tim Mack)
Wes Malott
Kyle Troup
Kris Prather
Packy Hanrahan
Arturo Quintero

Current Eligible Players
Players in the top 75 in 2023 points, who are not already on League rosters, and will be joined by the players who are left unprotected during the Manager Saves round

Kevin McCune
Sam Cooley
Tomas Kayhko
Sean Lavery-Spahr
Justin Knowles
Richie Teece
Michael Martell
Nathan Bohr
Graham Fach
Tom Hess
Kim Bolleby
Zac Tackett
Zach Wilkins
Osku Palermaa
Frank Snodgrass
Cody Shoemaker
Brandon Runk
Cristian Azcona
Wesley Low Jr
Joseph Grondin
Ronnie Russell
Anthony Neuer
Matt Kuba
Cortez Schenck
Trevor Roberts
Michael Davidson
Bryan Hahlen
David Krol
Patrick Dombrowski

About the PBA
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the world’s preeminent organization dedicated to the sport of bowling and its professional competition, with thousands of members and millions of fans throughout the world. The PBA plays host to bowling’s biggest tournaments, including the PBA Tour, PBA Regional Tour and PBA50 Tour. The PBA has launched a certification program titled, The PBA League Bowler Certification program. This program provides league bowlers access to statistics, digital awards, rules and regulations, and new tournaments, including The PBA LBC National Championships. Other PBA membership programs include PBA Pinsiders, a membership program for the sport’s most enthusiastic fans and PBA Jr., a club for elite youth bowlers under the age of 17 that has grown exponentially in the past two years. For more information, please visit PBA.com.