Anita Cantaline

Anita Cantaline is an American former professional bowler from Detroit and later Warren, Michigan, who was born around 1927. After graduating from Cass Tech High School she won her first women's championship in 1948, and in December 1955 she took the U.S. Women's Open. Her best-known season was 1956, when she won the Bowling Proprietors Association of America All-Star tournament, the BPAA National Individual Match Game title and the Bowling Writers Association of America Bowler of the Year award, and she was the first woman to win both the singles and doubles championships in the same year. She added Women's International Bowling Congress all-events and team titles in 1957 and 1959 and entered the WIBC Hall of Fame in 1979.