16 athletes in contention heading into final day of competition at 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens
May 25, 2026
Griffin Jordan of Savannah, Georgia (left), and Aleesha Oden of Council Bluffs, Iowa, went undefeated during Day 1 of bracket match play at the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens at Boardwalk Bowl in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday. In doing so, Jordan also recorded the first 300 game in U22 Masters history.
MASTERS QUALIFYING RESULTS
MASTERS JR TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
MASTERS BRACKETS
QUEENS QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS JR TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS BRACKETS
ORLANDO, Fla. – Five rounds of two-game, total-pinfall matches were conducted in each division at Boardwalk Bowl in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, and now just eight men and eight women remain in contention for titles at the 2026 United States Bowling Congress U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Four bowlers in each field posted undefeated records on the opening day of match play and now stand just one win away from clinching a berth in their event’s stepladder finals while four others are still alive in each tournament’s Elimination Bracket.
The players who posted perfect 3-0 records in U22 Masters action on Sunday were Griffin Jordan of Savannah, Georgia; Jaysen Spanbauer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Chance McLane of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland; and Kaden Kuusela of Grand Island, Nebraska.
When Winners Bracket play resumes at Boardwalk Bowl on Monday morning at 9 a.m. Eastern, Jordan will take on Spanbauer as McLane battles Kuusela.
Two U22 Masters Elimination Bracket matches will take place at the same time. Those matchups will pit two-time defending champion Brandon Bohn (4-1) of Lake Wales, Florida, against Jacob Bockstie (3-1) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as Max Macklin (4-1) of Savannah, Georgia, takes on Andru Blaney (4-1) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The bowlers who emerge victorious during those two elimination bouts will move on to take on the losers of the Jordan v. Spanbauer and McLane v. Kuusela affairs.
At that point, the Winners Bracket finalists will have locked up berths in the stepladder finals but will bowl one another head-to-head to determine the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds.
The No. 3 seed for the U22 Masters stepladder will go to the last bowler standing in the Elimination Bracket.
Bohn began match play in strong fashion by defeating Derrick Lewandowski of Blue Grass, Iowa, by a final score of 496-484 during Round 1.
That was as far as Bohn would go in the Winners Bracket, however, as Jordan would defeat him, 539-475, one round later, recording the first 300 game in U22 Masters history in the process.
Jordan stayed hot during his Round 3 tussle with top seed Aidan Furukawa of Sunbury, Ohio, putting up back-to-back scores of 279 to get to the clubhouse with an impressive score of 558. Furukawa, meanwhile, was only able to muster 384.
Those efforts, combined with the 498 he put up during his opening-round win, 498-432, over Brayden Masclee of Fairport, New York, allowed Jordan to finish the day with a six-game total of 1,595 and an average of 265.8 per game.
Jordan, a 19-year-old right-hander who just finished his freshman season bowling for Savannah College of Art and Design – Savannah, credited his mental game as being the biggest key to Sunday’s remarkable performance.
“I have to give a shout out to Dr. Mike (Mike Wurme) because he’s done a lot for me recently with texts each morning, just a lot of positivity coming from his way, and it’s very much appreciated,” Jordan said. “Another big thing was my ability to hold myself together. I did a lot of things today to keep myself in what I like to call ‘my cloud,’ and that cloud allows me to stay confident and stay in the moment.”
While his mind remained in the moment, his bowling ball stayed locked on the 1-3 pocket from start to finish on Sunday. Jordan looked at that as something of a bonus because the ball he used was not one he necessarily expected big things from this week in Orlando.
“This Motiv Steel Forge looked fantastic for me today,” Jordan said. “I’m glad I brought it to this tournament because I wasn’t going to.”
Jordan wasn’t the only U22 Masters competitor with a good look on Sunday though; McLane also had a day to remember.
The 19-year-old two-handed righty began his day with victories over Michael Weyl of Babson Park, Florida, and Dmitri Richardson of Denver by scores of 479-477 and 451-418, respectively.
As impressive as those first two matches were, they were nothing compared to the Herculean effort McLane put forth during his third-round battle with Bockstie.
McLane started that match with 10 strikes in a row before a stubborn 10-pin ended his run at 300 and forced him to settle for a final score of 289.
The only problem was that Bockstie started with a 10-bagger of his own on Lanes 39-40 to post 289 as well – a 10 pin thwarted Bockstie’s bid for perfection too.
So, instead of enjoying a 40-50 pin lead as a bowler would typically expect after flirting with 300, McLane found himself tied heading into the second and final game of the match.
That would’ve been enough to irritate a lot of bowlers, but if McLane was annoyed, he certainly didn’t let it impact his performance.
That’s because after starting the opener with 10 strikes in a row, McLane started Game 2 with the front 11 before the 10 pin reared its ugly head again, this time after narrowly missing being toppled by a messenger.
It had no bearing on the outcome of the match, however, as Bockstie was unable to keep pace this time around, finishing with 237 to allow McLane to emerge with a hard-fought victory.
Not surprisingly, the affair accounted for several new entries in the U22 Masters record book, including overall highest scoring match (1,114), highest winning two-game score (588) and highest score in a loss (526).
McLane struck on 21 of 24 deliveries during the bout, a success rate of 87.5 percent.
In the moments immediately following the thrilling match, McLane was having a hard time coming to grips with what had just occurred.
“Honestly, I’m kind of speechless because I had been struggling on the fresh all week,” McLane said, referring to the 44-foot U22 Masters oil pattern. “I tried something different, and, fortunately, it worked out because Jacob (Bockstie) is a really tough opponent.
“It was around the middle of the first game when we both had the front six that I realized this match might be something special. I knew he was going to really give me a run for my money, so I couldn’t miss. When you shoot 289, you expect to be up by 50; instead, he was right on my tail, so that really kept me on my feet knowing that I had to keep my foot on the gas the rest of the way.”
McLane will hope to keep zooming in the right direction during his Monday morning Winners Bracket semifinal match against Kuusela, who earned his place in the bout thanks to wins over Kevin Magnuson of San Jose, California (514-398); Joshua Sachs of Northbrook, Illinois (527-483); and Quinn Tillman of Clermont, Florida (443-430) on Sunday.
The winner of that contest will square off against whoever comes out on top in the Jordan v. Spanbauer match – Spanbauer advanced to that position by claiming wins over Dale Horstmann of Yorkville, Illinois (498-435); local bowler Bruno Brandao of Orlando (491-382); and Gregorio (Bud) Sicard III of Milwaukie, Oregon (461-444).
Jordan is hoping to keep Sunday’s momentum going during Monday’s final day of competition to earn the top seed and eventually emerge as the 2026 U22 Masters champion.
“Winning would mean the world to me,” Jordan said. “I always love winning, every athlete does. I can’t wait to be in the winner’s circle again, so hopefully it’s tomorrow.”
The U22 Masters stepladder finals are scheduled to get underway approximately 45 minutes after the conclusion of the U22 Queens stepladder, which is slated to start at 2 p.m. Eastern.
The battle for this year’s U22 Queens title is sure to be fierce as well with several top competitors, including defending champion Aleesha Oden of Council Bluffs, Iowa, still in the mix going into the last day of this year’s tournament.
Oden, a 21-year-old left-hander who bowls collegiately for Wichita State University, kept her hopes of successfully defending her U22 Queens title alive with a pair of wins on Sunday that left her as one of four undefeated players remaining in the U22 Queens Winners Bracket.
Oden captured last year’s event at Thunderbowl Lanes in suburban Detroit and, despite the confidence that may have given her, she realized that she was starting from scratch again this year.
“It’s really easy to get ahead of yourself, so the big thing I kept telling myself was just to have a good look during qualifying and go from there,” Oden said. “Then, once I got into match play, it was just making sure to take it one match at a time. Like I said, it’s really easy to get ahead of yourself and think ‘I have to win or else.’ I didn’t want that to be the expectation. Just being present has really been the motto for me this week.”
Oden, who entered match play as the No. 5 seed, started her bracket play with a 439-391 win over No. 21 Jennifer Chiarillo of Melbourne, Florida.
Her next match against No. 4 Victorya White, of Wentzville, Missouri, was a bit closer. A double by Oden in the 10th frame of Game 2 secured the win, 412-387.
“That match was pretty close the entire time,” Oden said. "I felt like I could hit the pocket, but getting all 10 down was pretty difficult. So, staying very patient, having a short memory, controlling what I could control, being present and being ok with the results really helped.”
Oden’s first match on Monday will be against No. 1 Melia Mitskavich of DuBois, Pennsylvania. Mitskavich led both rounds of qualifying and continued her impressive run on Sunday with wins over No. 17 Brooke Salzman of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota (422-334), and No. 8 Abigail Starkey of Schaumburg, Illinois (490-413).
Oden has the advantage of having successfully navigated the process last year of completing match play and then competing in the stepladder finals all on the same day.
“It’s still going to be a new experience because it’s a new year,” Oden said. “It’s kind of nice to have that under my belt from last year, but we’ll just have to see what tomorrow brings.”
Joining Oden and Mitskavich as the two other remaining undefeated players in match play are No. 2 Katelyn Abigania of San Diego and No. 6 Alyssa Ballard of Keller, Texas.
Abigania got past Erin Klemencic of Powder Springs, Georgia (475-424), and Desiree Buchert of San Antonio (447-386) on Sunday while Ballard collected victories over Emma Yoder of Wooster, Ohio (449-433), and Keira Magsam of Gretna, Nebraska (499-380).
Buchert and Klemencic remain alive in the U22 Queens Elimination Bracket, where they are joined by White and Savannah Burgin of Grapevine, Texas.
Three additional rounds of matches will take place on Monday morning, after which just three players in each field will remain in contention for the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens titles.
Those bowlers will advance to the finals, which will be streamed live on BowlTV from Boardwalk Bowl.
Because the finals will not be broadcast live on national television, each event’s top seed will have to be defeated twice during the finals in order to be denied the title.
All athletes competing in this year’s tournaments will be hoping to walk away with their event’s title and first-place trophy.
However, while winning will be top priority for all competitors, titles and trophies aren’t the only thing on the line during the U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Athletes competing in Orlando this week have extra incentive to author their best performances as the USBC Team USA Athlete Advisory Council has approved a total of eight spots on Junior Team USA to top finishers at the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
The AAC, which is made up of current or former tenured Team USA athletes, supported that berths on Junior Team USA 2027 will go to the top three age-eligible finishers after the qualifying rounds at both the U22 Masters and U22 Queens and to each tournament’s champion.
If the champion has already acquired a spot or is not age eligible, the fourth and final Junior Team USA position up for grabs at each event will be given to the next-highest age-eligible finisher after the qualifying rounds.
Age-eligible athletes will be those who have not reached their 21st birthday by Jan. 1, 2027.
All rounds of competition at both the U22 Masters and Queens will be streamed live exclusively on BowlTV.
CLICK HERE for more information on the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
MASTERS QUALIFYING RESULTS
MASTERS JR TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
MASTERS BRACKETS
QUEENS QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS JR TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS BRACKETS
ORLANDO, Fla. – Five rounds of two-game, total-pinfall matches were conducted in each division at Boardwalk Bowl in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, and now just eight men and eight women remain in contention for titles at the 2026 United States Bowling Congress U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Four bowlers in each field posted undefeated records on the opening day of match play and now stand just one win away from clinching a berth in their event’s stepladder finals while four others are still alive in each tournament’s Elimination Bracket.
The players who posted perfect 3-0 records in U22 Masters action on Sunday were Griffin Jordan of Savannah, Georgia; Jaysen Spanbauer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Chance McLane of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland; and Kaden Kuusela of Grand Island, Nebraska.
When Winners Bracket play resumes at Boardwalk Bowl on Monday morning at 9 a.m. Eastern, Jordan will take on Spanbauer as McLane battles Kuusela.
Two U22 Masters Elimination Bracket matches will take place at the same time. Those matchups will pit two-time defending champion Brandon Bohn (4-1) of Lake Wales, Florida, against Jacob Bockstie (3-1) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as Max Macklin (4-1) of Savannah, Georgia, takes on Andru Blaney (4-1) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The bowlers who emerge victorious during those two elimination bouts will move on to take on the losers of the Jordan v. Spanbauer and McLane v. Kuusela affairs.
At that point, the Winners Bracket finalists will have locked up berths in the stepladder finals but will bowl one another head-to-head to determine the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds.
The No. 3 seed for the U22 Masters stepladder will go to the last bowler standing in the Elimination Bracket.
Bohn began match play in strong fashion by defeating Derrick Lewandowski of Blue Grass, Iowa, by a final score of 496-484 during Round 1.
That was as far as Bohn would go in the Winners Bracket, however, as Jordan would defeat him, 539-475, one round later, recording the first 300 game in U22 Masters history in the process.
Jordan stayed hot during his Round 3 tussle with top seed Aidan Furukawa of Sunbury, Ohio, putting up back-to-back scores of 279 to get to the clubhouse with an impressive score of 558. Furukawa, meanwhile, was only able to muster 384.
Those efforts, combined with the 498 he put up during his opening-round win, 498-432, over Brayden Masclee of Fairport, New York, allowed Jordan to finish the day with a six-game total of 1,595 and an average of 265.8 per game.
Jordan, a 19-year-old right-hander who just finished his freshman season bowling for Savannah College of Art and Design – Savannah, credited his mental game as being the biggest key to Sunday’s remarkable performance.
“I have to give a shout out to Dr. Mike (Mike Wurme) because he’s done a lot for me recently with texts each morning, just a lot of positivity coming from his way, and it’s very much appreciated,” Jordan said. “Another big thing was my ability to hold myself together. I did a lot of things today to keep myself in what I like to call ‘my cloud,’ and that cloud allows me to stay confident and stay in the moment.”
While his mind remained in the moment, his bowling ball stayed locked on the 1-3 pocket from start to finish on Sunday. Jordan looked at that as something of a bonus because the ball he used was not one he necessarily expected big things from this week in Orlando.
“This Motiv Steel Forge looked fantastic for me today,” Jordan said. “I’m glad I brought it to this tournament because I wasn’t going to.”
Jordan wasn’t the only U22 Masters competitor with a good look on Sunday though; McLane also had a day to remember.
The 19-year-old two-handed righty began his day with victories over Michael Weyl of Babson Park, Florida, and Dmitri Richardson of Denver by scores of 479-477 and 451-418, respectively.
As impressive as those first two matches were, they were nothing compared to the Herculean effort McLane put forth during his third-round battle with Bockstie.
McLane started that match with 10 strikes in a row before a stubborn 10-pin ended his run at 300 and forced him to settle for a final score of 289.
The only problem was that Bockstie started with a 10-bagger of his own on Lanes 39-40 to post 289 as well – a 10 pin thwarted Bockstie’s bid for perfection too.
So, instead of enjoying a 40-50 pin lead as a bowler would typically expect after flirting with 300, McLane found himself tied heading into the second and final game of the match.
That would’ve been enough to irritate a lot of bowlers, but if McLane was annoyed, he certainly didn’t let it impact his performance.
That’s because after starting the opener with 10 strikes in a row, McLane started Game 2 with the front 11 before the 10 pin reared its ugly head again, this time after narrowly missing being toppled by a messenger.
It had no bearing on the outcome of the match, however, as Bockstie was unable to keep pace this time around, finishing with 237 to allow McLane to emerge with a hard-fought victory.
Not surprisingly, the affair accounted for several new entries in the U22 Masters record book, including overall highest scoring match (1,114), highest winning two-game score (588) and highest score in a loss (526).
McLane struck on 21 of 24 deliveries during the bout, a success rate of 87.5 percent.
In the moments immediately following the thrilling match, McLane was having a hard time coming to grips with what had just occurred.
“Honestly, I’m kind of speechless because I had been struggling on the fresh all week,” McLane said, referring to the 44-foot U22 Masters oil pattern. “I tried something different, and, fortunately, it worked out because Jacob (Bockstie) is a really tough opponent.
“It was around the middle of the first game when we both had the front six that I realized this match might be something special. I knew he was going to really give me a run for my money, so I couldn’t miss. When you shoot 289, you expect to be up by 50; instead, he was right on my tail, so that really kept me on my feet knowing that I had to keep my foot on the gas the rest of the way.”
McLane will hope to keep zooming in the right direction during his Monday morning Winners Bracket semifinal match against Kuusela, who earned his place in the bout thanks to wins over Kevin Magnuson of San Jose, California (514-398); Joshua Sachs of Northbrook, Illinois (527-483); and Quinn Tillman of Clermont, Florida (443-430) on Sunday.
The winner of that contest will square off against whoever comes out on top in the Jordan v. Spanbauer match – Spanbauer advanced to that position by claiming wins over Dale Horstmann of Yorkville, Illinois (498-435); local bowler Bruno Brandao of Orlando (491-382); and Gregorio (Bud) Sicard III of Milwaukie, Oregon (461-444).
Jordan is hoping to keep Sunday’s momentum going during Monday’s final day of competition to earn the top seed and eventually emerge as the 2026 U22 Masters champion.
“Winning would mean the world to me,” Jordan said. “I always love winning, every athlete does. I can’t wait to be in the winner’s circle again, so hopefully it’s tomorrow.”
The U22 Masters stepladder finals are scheduled to get underway approximately 45 minutes after the conclusion of the U22 Queens stepladder, which is slated to start at 2 p.m. Eastern.
The battle for this year’s U22 Queens title is sure to be fierce as well with several top competitors, including defending champion Aleesha Oden of Council Bluffs, Iowa, still in the mix going into the last day of this year’s tournament.
Oden, a 21-year-old left-hander who bowls collegiately for Wichita State University, kept her hopes of successfully defending her U22 Queens title alive with a pair of wins on Sunday that left her as one of four undefeated players remaining in the U22 Queens Winners Bracket.
Oden captured last year’s event at Thunderbowl Lanes in suburban Detroit and, despite the confidence that may have given her, she realized that she was starting from scratch again this year.
“It’s really easy to get ahead of yourself, so the big thing I kept telling myself was just to have a good look during qualifying and go from there,” Oden said. “Then, once I got into match play, it was just making sure to take it one match at a time. Like I said, it’s really easy to get ahead of yourself and think ‘I have to win or else.’ I didn’t want that to be the expectation. Just being present has really been the motto for me this week.”
Oden, who entered match play as the No. 5 seed, started her bracket play with a 439-391 win over No. 21 Jennifer Chiarillo of Melbourne, Florida.
Her next match against No. 4 Victorya White, of Wentzville, Missouri, was a bit closer. A double by Oden in the 10th frame of Game 2 secured the win, 412-387.
“That match was pretty close the entire time,” Oden said. "I felt like I could hit the pocket, but getting all 10 down was pretty difficult. So, staying very patient, having a short memory, controlling what I could control, being present and being ok with the results really helped.”
Oden’s first match on Monday will be against No. 1 Melia Mitskavich of DuBois, Pennsylvania. Mitskavich led both rounds of qualifying and continued her impressive run on Sunday with wins over No. 17 Brooke Salzman of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota (422-334), and No. 8 Abigail Starkey of Schaumburg, Illinois (490-413).
Oden has the advantage of having successfully navigated the process last year of completing match play and then competing in the stepladder finals all on the same day.
“It’s still going to be a new experience because it’s a new year,” Oden said. “It’s kind of nice to have that under my belt from last year, but we’ll just have to see what tomorrow brings.”
Joining Oden and Mitskavich as the two other remaining undefeated players in match play are No. 2 Katelyn Abigania of San Diego and No. 6 Alyssa Ballard of Keller, Texas.
Abigania got past Erin Klemencic of Powder Springs, Georgia (475-424), and Desiree Buchert of San Antonio (447-386) on Sunday while Ballard collected victories over Emma Yoder of Wooster, Ohio (449-433), and Keira Magsam of Gretna, Nebraska (499-380).
Buchert and Klemencic remain alive in the U22 Queens Elimination Bracket, where they are joined by White and Savannah Burgin of Grapevine, Texas.
Three additional rounds of matches will take place on Monday morning, after which just three players in each field will remain in contention for the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens titles.
Those bowlers will advance to the finals, which will be streamed live on BowlTV from Boardwalk Bowl.
Because the finals will not be broadcast live on national television, each event’s top seed will have to be defeated twice during the finals in order to be denied the title.
All athletes competing in this year’s tournaments will be hoping to walk away with their event’s title and first-place trophy.
However, while winning will be top priority for all competitors, titles and trophies aren’t the only thing on the line during the U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Athletes competing in Orlando this week have extra incentive to author their best performances as the USBC Team USA Athlete Advisory Council has approved a total of eight spots on Junior Team USA to top finishers at the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
The AAC, which is made up of current or former tenured Team USA athletes, supported that berths on Junior Team USA 2027 will go to the top three age-eligible finishers after the qualifying rounds at both the U22 Masters and U22 Queens and to each tournament’s champion.
If the champion has already acquired a spot or is not age eligible, the fourth and final Junior Team USA position up for grabs at each event will be given to the next-highest age-eligible finisher after the qualifying rounds.
Age-eligible athletes will be those who have not reached their 21st birthday by Jan. 1, 2027.
All rounds of competition at both the U22 Masters and Queens will be streamed live exclusively on BowlTV.
CLICK HERE for more information on the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.