Marion Ladewig

Marion Ladewig, born Marion Van Oosten in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1914, was an American ten-pin bowler who was rated the best woman bowler of the twentieth century by Bowlers Journal International. The Bowling Writers Association of America named her Female Bowler of the Year a record nine times between 1950 and 1963, and in 1951 she became the only woman to win the WIBC City, State and National All-Events titles in the same year. She holds the record of eight U.S. Women's Open championships, won the Women's World Invitational five times and took the inaugural PWBA Championship in 1960 before retiring from competition after 1964. She was the first Superior Performance inductee of the WIBC Hall of Fame in 1964, entered the Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984, and died in 2010 at the age of 95.