INDIANAPOLIS – Two members of the University of Pikeville women's bowling team were named First-Team All-Americans on Friday night and one was the NAIA Bowler of the Year at a banquet honoring players after the opening day of the NAIA Invitational Tournament.
                   
Senior Kim Yioulos and junior Brandy Hensley were on the five-player first-team, and Yioulos was named the bowler of the year, giving her the honor both years the NAIA has considered bowling an emerging sport.
 
The duo was two of Pikeville's 11 Academic All-Americans, given to collegiate bowlers who have a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale. Three of their men's counterparts joined them on the team.
 
Yioulos is a senior from Rochester, N.Y., who is finishing a phenomenal season. She competed in 10 tournaments this season and was the individual champion in three of them. She was the only NAIA bowler to win three tournaments this year and one of only three in the country to do so.
 
Yioulos rolled an average of 222.833 to win Pikeville's own Orange & Black Classic. She then won the Las Vegas Invitational in December with an average of 214.667 and followed that up after Christmas with a win in the Nittany Lion Kegler by averaging 210.6.
 
For the season she averaged 201.3, which led all NAIA bowlers this season and was fourth in all of college bowling.
 
In the other measurement of individual success, Yioulos also was the NAIA leader with a differential – the difference between her average and that of the entire field of a tournament – of 30.64. That was good for fifth nationally this season.
 
Hensley is a junior from Corpus Christi, Texas. She won the Striking Knights Invitational in November with an average of 225.8.
 
Her average of 195.42 was fourth among NAIA bowlers and 11^th overall, while her differential was 25.546, fifth best among NAIA competition and 13^th overall.
 
They were joined on the first-team by Caitlin Hoffman of Robert Morris (Ill.), Kayla Rhoades of Marian and Diana Zavjalova of Webber International.
 
The three members of the men's bowling team to qualify for Academic All-American status were Fidel Marchena, a senior from the Dominican Republic; Lucas Hohnstein, a freshman from Boise, Idaho; and Derek Perkins, a freshman from Oklahoma City.
 
Joining Hensley and Yioulos from the women's team are Rebekah Wilhelm, a sophomore from Middletown, Ohio; Rebecca Chase, a sophomore from Elwell, Mich.; Ashley Copley, a sophomore from Morris, Ill.; Felecia Proctor, a freshman from Titusville, Fla.; Kara Crowe, a freshman from Alcoa, Ohio; Lauren Eggleton, a freshman from Anchorage, Alaska; Jenna Grandy, a freshman from Bridgeport, Mich.; Brianna Larson, a freshman from North Tonawanda, N.Y.; and Astrid Valiente, a freshman from Caguas, P.R.
 
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