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2024-25 Women's Bowling Roster

Kiara Backstrom

Kiara Backstrom

  • CL:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Channahon, Ill.
  • Prev School:
    Minooka Community

Summary

Biography

2023-24
  • Was a First Team All-KCAC performer.
  • Named to two All-Tournament Teams.
  • Finished the season with a 186.524 average, two top five finishes, and one top 25 finish.
  • Had a 186.765 average in four Tier 1Events and a 186.360 average in six Tier 2 Events.
  • Finished the Columbia 300 Hoosier Classic with a season’s best average of 202.25.
2022-23
  • Competed in four Tier 2 Events as a sophomore.
  • Had a season high average of 178.8 at the Wildcat Challenge, finishing 14th.
2021-22
  • Played in five Tier 1 Events and four Tier 2 Events.
  • Finished Tier 1 Events with a 172.6 average and Tier 2 Events with a 180.3 average.
  • In nine events, had a 176.8 average.
  • Had two top 10 finishes and one top five finish.
  • At the Jayhawk Collegiate Challenge, finished with her highest varsity average of 191.3.
  • Had a 194.4 average at the Wildcat Challenge in the junior varsity tournament.
High School: Backstrom is a three-year varsity bowler in high school and helped her team to a third place finish in 2019 and 2020. In 2018, Backstrom earned a second place finish at the Pepsi Tournament and she placed 40th at High School Nationals. Backstrom earned All-Conference, placed second in sectionals, earned ninth place All-State honors and was fourth in High School Nationals in 2019. In 2020, she earned All-Conference, placed first at regionals and was a seventh-place All-State selection. Backstrom was the first two time All-State female bowler in Minooka Community High School history. Her high game is 299, high three-game series is 742 and high six-game series is 1324. In 2020, Backstrom's season average was 211.

Personal: Daughter of Shannon and Ed Backstrom…human services major
 

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

  • 2024-25Senior