Cheryl Daniels

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Cheryl Daniels, of Detroit, Michigan, is an American former professional bowler who won ten Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) Tour titles in a career spent largely on the women's professional tour. A right-hander, she collected her first victory in 1989, at the Ebonite Thunderbolt Classic in Clearwater, Florida, in a four-win season that made her runner-up for PWBA Player of the Year. She collected multiple titles again in the 1994 and 1995 seasons, and her one major victory came at the 1995 U.S. Women's Open; she also recorded nine other top-five finishes at majors. Her last win came in 1996 at the Rossford Golden Triangle Open. The PWBA and the United States Bowling Congress record that she was inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame in 2002 for Superior Performance, and in 2023 she was elected to the PWBA Hall of Fame in the Performance category. Away from the tour she has run a pro shop in the Detroit area and, a Motown-raised singer, recorded albums of her own songs.

Notes

Sports Encyclopedia roster CTL-SPE-0224. Firsts disposition: NO 'first' is claimed for Daniels in any source in this record, and none is asserted. Her discipline is established from the federation sources as PWBA Tour ten-pin bowling (10 titles, one major), per the assignment's instruction to verify rather than assume a tour. FLAG: the PWBA's own pages give her 1989 first title under two names — 'Ebonite Firebolt Classic' in the biography text and 'Ebonite Thunderbolt Classic, Clearwater, Fla.' in the PWBA title list; the description follows the title list, and the discrepancy is recorded here rather than resolved. A birth year is not stated: secondary coverage gave her age as 63 in 2023, a single-derived figure not carried into the description. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): Daniels's ten titles were concentrated in two bursts — four in 1989 and a mid-1990s run crowned by the U.S. Women's Open — a peak-level career the Hall of Fame elections in two halls now ratify. Photo: HELD — no Commons file found (see visual asset basis).

Sources

• Professional Women's Bowling Association. "Daniels, Cheryl" (member profile). Accessed 2026-11-03. (primary source · build store)
• United States Bowling Congress. "PWBA Hall of Fame inducts four new members." May 18, 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03. (primary source · build store)
• Jim Goodwin, United States Bowling Congress. "The Historian — Issue #18." September 10, 2019. Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)

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