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You might bowl your heart out and give it your all, but bowling is a team sport and so many other factors can come into play that it might seem nothing you can do will ever get you into first place, even if just fleetingly. Here are the top 25 people who had to put in the most weeks of bowling before finally achieving that dream for the first time.

Top 25 Bowlers Who Went The Longest Before Finally Getting To Enjoy First Place
Rank	Bowler	Weeks of Bowling it Took	Starting From	Finally Achieved 1st Place On
1.	AJ Hofmann	319	Fall 2011, wk. 16	Fall 2020, wk. 8
2.	Ryan Doll	287	Spring 2006, wk. 16	Spring 2015, wk. 16
3.	Rob Kaszuba	221	Spring 2008, wk. 16	Spring 2015, wk. 16
4.	Phil Schroeder	182	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2008, wk. 16
5.	Freda Schroeder	163	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2008, wk. 16
6.	Angela Bradford	135	Fall 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2009, wk. 16
7.	Bob Brunker	134	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2009, wk. 16
8.	Ben Spencer	124	Fall 2016, wk. 16	Fall 2020, wk. 8
9.	Jason Carpio	123	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2006, wk. 16
10.	Deena Slinkard	118	Fall 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2009, wk. 16
11.	Pat Searcy	116	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2006, wk. 16
12.	David Parre	114	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Fall 2007, wk. 16
13.	Ian Goetz	113	Fall 2011, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
14.	Russell Bingham	110	Spring 2015, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
15.	Michael Gordon	110	Spring 2014, wk. 16	Spring 2017, wk. 16
16.	Thomas Lin	98	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Fall 2006, wk. 16
17.	Aaron Barber	96	Fall 2014, wk. 16	Spring 2017, wk. 16
18.	Jonathan Vigliaturo	96	Fall 2011, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
19.	Andy McLeod	94	Fall 2005, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
20.	Bryan Mohr	83	Spring 2013, wk. 16	Spring 2015, wk. 16
21.	Kris Hiestand	81	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2007, wk. 16
22.	Chris Lewis	79	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Fall 2008, wk. 16
23.	Kody Karnes	64	Spring 2013, wk. 16	Fall 2014, wk. 16
24.	Dennis Walling	55	Spring 2017, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
25.	Rich DeYoung	55	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Spring 2006, wk. 16

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