Carolyn Dorin-Ballard

Carolyn Dorin-Ballard (born 1964) is an American professional ten-pin bowler from Linden, New Jersey, and one of the top female bowlers in the world. She has been a member of the Professional Women's Bowling Association since 1990, with a break between 2003 and 2015, and has also bowled in PBA events. Across the PWBA and the PBA Women's Series she has won 22 professional titles, including three PWBA majors and the 2001 Player of the Year award, when she tied or broke 11 PWBA Tour records in a single season. In 2007 she became the first woman to bowl a perfect game in a PBA event, at the USBC Masters. She is a member of the Team USA bowling squad, was inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame in 2008 and the PWBA Hall of Fame in 2020, and is married to PBA Hall of Famer Del Ballard Jr.