Good GMC West Michigan Allstar: Chelsey Purdum

This week’s Good GMC West Michigan All Star is Chelsey Purdum, sophomore on the Kelloggsville bowling team.

Let’s start with a question: What does the average bowler score?  100?  150?

I consider myself to be athletic, and if you’re like me, you’re somewhere in the neighborhood of 100.  Strikes, while not an impossibility, are certainly rare.

Not for Chelsea Purdum.  How about 12-strikes in a row, on her way to rolling a perfect 300-game to help her team shut out Allendale.

Even those guys who seem to live at the lanes — they bowl what, 200?  225, maybe?  Whatever the number, suffice it to say that there are a lot of lifelong bowlers who never get their portrait on the wall for bowling a perfect game.  There are a lot of lifelong bowlers who haven’t matched Chelsea Purdum.

“It didn’t hit me until the seventh frame that I could do it,” said Purdum, whose previous high game was 268, to the Grand Rapids Press. “I was extremely nervous, but I tried to keep my adrenaline down and make good shots.

“It was so exciting. It felt good to have everyone cheering for me. I tried not to look up at everyone that was watching me. I just looked at my teammates.”

Congratulations to Kory Banner, this week’s Good GMC West Michigan All Star.

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