Academic Snapshot
Acceptance Rate
95%
Avg SAT
1,118
Avg ACT
23
Enrollment
10,493
Team Information
Sport
Bowling
Gender
Women's
Location
Wichita, KS
Coaching Staff (2)
Holly Harris
Head Coach
THE HARRIS FILE National Coach of the Year Awards: 1 Conference Coach of the Year Awards: 1 All-Americans: 14 Academic All-Americans: 37 Regular Season Tournament Wins: 26 Conference Championships: 1 National Team Members: 22 Rookies of the Year: 1 (Juliana Botero) Players of the Year: 2 (Madison Janack, Sara Duque Jiménez) NCAA Tournaments: 1 National Semi-Finalists: 5 National Finals: 3 National Championships: 2 Singles National Champions: 2 (Sara Duque Jiménez, Paige Wagner) A former Shocker standout, Harris enters her second season as head coach in 2025-26. The first head coach of the Wichita State bowling program after the transition to NCAA Division I, Harris led the Shockers to a banner season in 2024-25. She was named both CUSA Coach of the Year and NTCA National Coach of the Year after Wichita State reached the Final Four in their inaugural NCAA campaign. The Shockers finished 87-38, with three regular season tournament wins (Mid-States Championship, Columbia 300 Saints Invite, Mid-Winter Invitational) a CUSA tournament championship and a Lansing Regional championship. Four Shockers were named All-Americans under Harris's tutelage: Sara Duque Jiménez, Ashtyn Woods, Mary Orf, and Paige Wagner. Harris served as head coach of the club program since June of 2019 and led the team to national championships in 2021 and 2024, a runner-up appearance in 2022 and a third-place finish in 2023. She is a four-time National Collegiate Bowling Coaches Association Coach of the Year finalist. Before becoming head coach, Harris served as assistant coach of the program from August of 2016-June of 2019 and helped lead the team to a third-place finish at the 2017 National Tournament and a ninth-place finish in 2018. Harris competed for the Shockers as a four-year member of the bowling team from 2010-14. She competed three times at collegiate national championships and finished in the final four two times. She was a two-time NCBCA All-American, two-time member of Junior Team USA, a 2014 Team USA member and earned four gold medals at the 2012 Tournament of Americas.
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Mark Lewis
Assistant Coach
THE LEWIS FILE All-Americans: 71 Academic All-Americans: 149 Regular Season Tournament Wins: 133 National Team Members: 52 Rookie of the Year: 4 (Juliana Botero, Sydney Brummett, Jazreel Tan, Kristal Scott) Players of the Year: 10 (Madison Janack, Sydney Brummett, Dasha Kovalova, Tannya Roumimper 2x, Jazreel Tan 2x, Sandra Gongora, Anita Manns, Sara Duque Jiménez) PWBA Champions: 5 champions have won 12 events National Championships: 5 National Finals: 10 National Semi-Finalists: 17 Singles National Champions: 6 (Sara Duque Jiménez, Paige Wagner, Sydney Brummett, Daniela Alvarado, Elysia Current, Olivia Sandham) A United States Amateur Champion, Olympian and Hall of Famer, Lewis was announced as the program's assistant coach on September 9, 2023 and enters his second season with the program at the NCAA level in 2025-26. Lewis has been involved with Wichita State bowling in a variety of roles since he bowled for the Shockers from 1978-1981. He was part of the first men’s national championship team at WSU in 1980 and followed up his collegiate career with a run of individual successes, highlighted by the 1988 United States Amateur Championship. Later that year, he represented the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, where bowling was conducted as an exhibition sport. Lewis finished sixth in the individual competition. Lewis joined the Wichita State coaching staff as a volunteer assistant and spent two years coaching in the United Arab Emirates prior to his hiring as a Shocker bowling assistant coach in 1999. In 2019, he was named Director of Shocker Bowling following the retirement of longtime head coach Gordon Vadakin. Lewis is a member of the Great Plains USBC Hall of Fame, the Kansas State USBC Hall of Fame, the USBC Hall of Fame and the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame.
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