WIAA State Bowling 4A: Skyview Storm claims Team Title, 3 way battle for Individual Champ

2/8/2025

(Tukwila, WA) The 4A State girls Championships were rolled off this past weekend at Bowlero lanes in Tukwila. Day 1 on Friday the 30 individual bowlers who qualified joined the 12 5-person teams that qualified for both the team events and each member also compete in the individual competition. The individual competition was held and completed on Friday.

The teams took their team totals from Friday into the 2nd half of the team competition on Saturday to the 14 game Baker format. The Baker format is where the teams bowl 1 game with 5 players. Bowler 1 will bowl the 1st and 6th frame, bowler 2 2nd and 7th and so on where each team member bowls 2 of the 10 frames.

All Tournaments Highs

Single Games

For all 3 tournaments there were a grand total of 71 200 games. 4 of those reached the 240+ mark.
High Game
246 Samyia Gildon Thomas Jefferson 3A
245 Diva Marsh Bellingham 4A
245 Sanaa Tyler Hudson’s Bay 2A
241 Ava Cruz Silas 3A

Individual Series

There were 7 individual 3-game series for the week that reached 600+ with Jayden Thayer of Bonney Lake scoring 2 of them. There were also just 5 6-game series 1145 or higher.
High 3-game Individual Series
633 Diva Marsh Bellingham 4A
632 Tamia Yeager Spanaway Lake 4A
627 Jayden Thayer Bonney Lake 4A
621 Samyia Gildon Thomas Jefferson 3A
621 MJ Westmoreland Hudson’s Bay 2A
612 Izabelle Hewes Prairie 3A
605 Jayden Thayer Bonney Lake 4A

High 6-game Individual Series
1232 Jayden Thayer Bonney Lake 4A
1209 Diva Marsh Bellingham 4A
1193 Tamia Yeager Spanaway Lake 4A
1173 Samyia Gildon Thomas Jefferson 3A
1145 Sanaa Tyler Hudson’s Bay 2A

Team High Baker Games

There were 20 200 games bowled out of 504 total Baker games bowled. The 4A was most productive with 12 of the 20 and both 3A and 2A/1A getting 4 each. There were just 5 above 220.

High Baker Team game
235 Spanaway Lake 4A
227 Hudson’s Bay 2A
225 Skyview 4A
224 Thomas Jefferson 3A
223 Thomas Jefferson 3A

Total High Team Series

There were 8 team that tallied more than 7,000 pins in their team totals. 5 were from the 4A classification.

High Team Series
7805 Thomas Jefferson 3A
7708 Skyview 4A
7571 Hudson’s Bay 2A
7433 Kamiakin 4A
7213 Emerald Ridge 4A
7167 RA Long 2A
7166 Eastmont 4A
7083 Spanaway Lake 4A

4A Tournament

Individual competition goes down to the final game

The 4A individual competition was made even more difficult with the addition of last year’s 3A State Champion and 3A’s 3rd place finisher. No they did not transfer schools but last year’s 3A Champ Tamia Yeager from Spanaway Lake and Bonney Lake’s Jayden Thayer both moved up to 4A because their schools were re-classified from 3A to 4A.

In the opening game there were many chances with 9 200+ games bowled in the 4A competition. Chelsea Ravenell of Emerald Ridge led after the 1st game with a 226. Teagyn McMillen from Puyallup was right behind with a 225 and Bellingham’s Diva Marsh had a 222. Yeager and Thayer were in the mix with a 205 and a 204 respectively.

Thayer then fired a 225 to take the lead while Yeager tossed a 201 and March fell off with a 176. Emerald Ridge’s Mariah Brown fired her 2nd 200 as well and followed up her 205 with a 220. So after 2 games Thayer led with a 429, Brown was 2nd at 425, Yeager was 406 and Marsh dropped to 4th at 398.

Thayer, Marsh and Brown all slowed up with a 176, 178 and 161 while Yeager tossed her 3rd 200 in a row with a 226 to take the lead with a 3 game series of 632. Thayer was 2nd at 605, Brown 3rd with a 586, Marsh 4th with a 576 and Ravenell just behind at 574 as they went into the lunch break.

In game 4, right after the break Marsh blew out the 2nd highest game of all 3 tournaments with a 245, just a pin behind Samyia Gildon’s 246 who was the 3A Individual Champion from Thomas Jefferson. Thayer also answered with her 3rd 200 game a 213 while Yeager just missed with a 195. It was at this time those 3 separated themselves from the rest of the pack and it was a 3 horse race.

All 3 would miss the 200 mark in the 5th game with Thayer putting up a 192, Marsh a 180 and Yeager a 181. Only 9 pins would separate the 3 going into the final game with Thayer leading with a total of 1010. Yeager was right behind at 1008 and Marsh at 1001. The teams only had 5 bowlers on each lane while the individuals had 6. So Yeager finished first and did not bowl the game she wanted with her second lowest total of 185 for an 1193 6 game total.

Both Thayer and Marsh could easily know what their target was and were bowling next to each other as well as they came down to the finish. Marsh who was the one that was more up and down than the other 2 was up again and fired a 208 to top 1200 at 1209 to for a series average of 604.5 and a game average of 201.5.

However, Thayer a sophomore dug in deep and knocked down 222 to win going away with a 1232 total. Her 1st 3 game series was 605 and she came back to blast a 627 for the win. Thayer averaged 205.3 for the day. Thayer and Marsh were the only ones to average a 200+ game for all 3 tournaments.

Yeager, a senior, averaged 199 but was well below what she rolled last year when she knocked down 1256 which would have won this year’s tournament but settled for 3rd place.

Big props for 4th place finisher Ravenna Foley of Mount Rainier who rolled a total of 1108 but was so consistent. She had 2 200’s a 206 and 209 in the 3rd and 4th games but then never lower than a 163 up to a 182. Brianna Hust of Skyview took 5th with an 1100 series. The Storm has 2 others in the top 12 who medaled in the individual competition with Kaydree Rowland taking 7th and Addysen Case 10th. Case began the day with a 149 and a 141 and then heated up finishing with a 208 and 201.

McMillen ended up 6th, Emm Johnson of Battle Ground 8th, Ravenell 9th, Jillian Castle of Eastmont 11th and the final medal went to Eisenhower’s Naikeeley Tabayoyon.

Individual Final Standings

1st Jayden Thayer Bonney Lake 1232
2nd Diva Marsh Bellingham 1209
3rd Tamia Yeager Spanaway Lake 1193
4th Ravenna Foley Mount Rainier 1108
5th Brianna Hust Skyview 1100
6th Teagyn McMillen Puyallup 1098
7th Kaydree Rowland Skyview 1084
8th Emm Johnson Battle Ground 1077
9th Chelsea Ravenell Emerald Ridge 1069
10th Addyson Case Skyview 1053
11th Jillian Castle Eastmont 1052
12th Naikeeley Tabayoyon Eisenhower 1051

Link to full individual scoreboard

Skyview Storm’s to a State Team Championship

Consistency is what wins bowling tournaments more than the one off big games. Skyview didn’t have anyone battling for the individual title but they had 3 bowlers who medaled finishing in the top 12 while one finished 24th and the other 40th out of 93 entries. This consistency won the Storm their 2nd State Championship in school history after winning it all in the 2022-23 season.

After day 1 and the individual awards were handed out the Storm had a handy lead over last year’s defending Champs Kamiakin with a 5205 to 5049 margin. The 5 that bowled on Friday included seniors Addysen Case, Kaydree Rowland and Avery Henderson along with junior Abby Pine and sophomore Brianna Hust. Hust led the team on day 1 with an 1100 6 game series taking 5th in the individual awards.

Kamiakin’s Alyssa Martinez was their top individual placer taking 15th. The other 4 were Grace Lynn Hubbert, Samantha Martinez, Clara Demarest and Lilliana Martinez. As a group they battled well to defend their title with all 5 finishing between 15th and 32nd place.

As the Baker games began the Braves knew they would have to pick up pins on Skyview every game to make a run at the Storm. After 2 games they had gained just 4 pins and needed a big swing for a shot. Instead Skyview sealed it in the 3rd game when they rolled a 181 and Kamiakin got racked with several splits and ended with a 130 losing 51 pins and it was over.

The Braves were well in front of the race for 3rd place as Emerald Ridge would hold Eastmont at bay and collect their 1st ever 3rd place trophy. The Jaguars have 4 State Championships and 2 runner-ups and now a 3rd and a 4th place finish.

Only 4 teams take home a trophy and so there was also a bit of a race for 4th place with Spanaway Lake getting right into the race with the highest Baker score in all 3 tournaments of a 235 in game 1. The Sentinels made a lot of headway with a 156, 165, 184 and another 200 at 207 to look like they were going to get into the top 4. But then they hit wall with 5 games 151 and below and 3 in the 130’s and would settle for 5th.

Eastmont was sitting in 3rd place after day 1 with a 5010 pin count, Emerald Ridge was 4th at 4939 and Spanaway Lake 4758. In the end only the Jaguars were able to change their position moving from 4th to 3rd.

Team Final Standings

1st Place Champions Skyview Storm 7708
Roster: Addy Case-Sr, Avery Henderson-Sr, Kayla Lester-Sr, Kaydree Rowland-Sr, Abby Pine-Jr, Brianna Hust-So and Alex Pine-Fr. Head Coach Traci Chun, Assistant Coach Ron Henderson

2nd Place Kamiakin Braves 7433
Roster: Clara Demarest-Sr, Grace Lynn Hubbert-Sr, Lilliana Martinez-Sr, Meredith Stavenger-Sr, Alyssa Martinez-Jr, Makenna Colunga-So, Samantha Martinez-So. Head Coach Scott Biglin, Assistant Coaches Abe Martinez and Amy Biglin

3rd Place Emerald Ridge Jaguars 7213
Roster: Madilynn Pollock-Sr, Chelsea Ravenell-Sr, Jamie Sheldon-Hayes-Sr, Mariah Brown-Jr, Chandra Eaglespeaker-Jr, Layla Herbert-Jr, Hattie Roy-Jr. Head Coach Alan McCormack, Assistant Coach Bill Dicken

4th Place Eastmont Wildcats 7166
Roster: Jillian Castle-Sr, Devon Cervine-Sr, Reese Kautzman-Sr, Claire Collins-Jr, Hailey Hopkins-Jr, Esme Ramos-Jr, Jaylen Clarin-Fr. Head Coach Christy Binge, Assistant Coach Scott Cervine

5th Place Spanaway Lake 7083
6th Place Puyallup 6922
7th Place Eisenhower 6794
8th Place Wenatchee 6621
9th Place Rogers (Puy) 6582
10th Place Richland 6466
11th Place Curtis 6158
12th Place Jackson 4726

200 Club

The following bowlers all rolled 200 games in the 4A classification. There were a total of 31 with many bowling multiple 200’s. We list them by their highest and then any additional 200 games next to the highest score.

245 Diva Marsh Bellingham also 222, 208
234 Madilynn Pollock Emerald Ridge
226 Tamia Yeager Spanaway Lake also 205, 201
226 Chelsea Ravenell Emerald Ridge
225 Jayden Thayer Bonney Lake also 222, 213, 204
225 Teagyn McMillen Puyallup
222 Kaitlyn Richards Graham-Kapowsin also 216
221 Brianna Hust Skyview also 204
220 Mariah Brown Emerald Ridge also 205
213 Kami Kober Rogers (Puy)
209 Ravenna Foley Mount Rainer also 206
208 Addysen Case Skyview also 201
206 Joely Ostler Eisenhower
203 Miley Lakey Richaland
202 Naikeeley Tabayoyon Eisenhower also 202
202 Kaydree Rowland Skyview
202 Sadie Fredrickson Pasco
202 Berlyn Tingley Rogers (Puy)