ARLINGTON, Texas – The United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame will welcome five new members when the 2025 class is inducted May 7 during the USBC Convention in Las Vegas.

The USBC Hall of Fame Committee recently elected Shannon O’Keefe of Jacksonville, Alabama; Bryan Goebel of Shawnee, Kansas; and Randy Pedersen of Orlando, Florida, in the Superior Performance category, and Tom Clark of Muskego, Wisconsin, and Keith Hamilton of Park Ridge, Illinois, in the Meritorious Service category.

O’Keefe, 45, was elected in her inaugural year on the ballot. The right-hander has amassed 15 titles on the Professional Women’s Bowling Association tour, including three major championships, and is a three-time PWBA Player of the Year.

Her first win was a doubles title with Professional Bowlers Association champion Bill O’Neill in the 2015 PBA/PWBA Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles in Houston. The pair successfully defended that title in 2016, and O’Keefe broke through with a pair of PWBA singles titles that same year.

In 2017, O’Keefe started a string of three consecutive years of winning a major championship by capturing the Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship in Richmond, Virginia. She collected the 2018 USBC Queens in Reno, Nevada, and completed the trifecta with another PWBA Tour Championship in 2019, again in Richmond, Virginia.

She garnered PWBA Player of the Year honors in 2018 (two wins, including one major), 2019 (five wins, including one major) and 2022 (one win). Twice she led the PWBA Tour in single-season earnings (2018 and 2019) and average (2021 and 2022).

In addition to her PWBA accolades, O’Keefe had a stellar career with Team USA where she spent 18 consecutive seasons from 2005-2022, earning nearly 50 medals in international competition. She also is a two-time USBC Team USA Trials champion (2018 and 2008).

O’Keefe has left her mark at the USBC Women’s Championships, too. She owns four WC titles (three team championships and the 2016 Diamond All-Events title).

Not only a great competitor, O’Keefe also excels as a coach. She’s currently the head coach of the women’s team at Jacksonville State University where she guided the team to the 2024 NCAA championship. Previously, as head coach of the women’s team at McKendree University, O’Keefe won the 2023 and 2017 Intercollegiate Team Championships and the 2022 and 2017 NCAA Championships.
 
Goebel, 63, is a PBA Hall of Famer who won 10 times on the PBA Tour, including one major victory.

The right-hander bagged his first title in 1990 at the Miller Lite Challenge in Tucson, Arizona. Goebel defeated four competitors to take home the win at Golden Pin Lanes.

Goebel posted another win in 1991 then went winless in 1992 and 1993. He made up for his brief dry spell by having the best year of his career in 1994, collecting four titles, including the season-ending Merit Mixed Doubles Championship with partner and PWBA champion Aleta Sill.

In many years, winning four titles would be enough to garner PBA Player of the Year honors, but Norm Duke won the award in 1994 with five titles that included the PBA Tournament of Champions.

Golden Pin Lanes in Tucson proved to be truly golden for Goebel as he would add victories in that center in 1995 and 1996 to add to his 1990 title there.

His crowning achievement came at the 1998 Brunswick World Tournament of Champions in Overland Park, Kansas, where, bowling as the “hometown” favorite, he defeated Steve Hoskins to claim the lone major title of his career.

His final PBA Tour win came in 2003 in Medford, Oregon, and he also added a PBA50 title in 2016. A three-time Bowlers Journal and USBC First Team All-American, Goebel was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 2017.

Pedersen, 62, put together a PBA Hall of Fame career that featured 13 wins, including one major championship.

The right-hander broke into the win column in 1986 when he defeated four opponents to claim the title at the AC-Delco Classic in Union City, California.

A pair of wins the following year would include his lone major championship, the 1987 PBA National Championship in Toledo, Ohio. Pedersen would defeat three future hall of famers in David Ozio, Marshall Holman and, in the title match, Amleto Monacelli, to earn the victory.

Pedersen won the PBA Senior/Touring Pro Doubles Championship title with the legendary Carmen Salvino in 1988 and followed that up with his best year in terms of number of wins when he collected three titles in 1989.

He won one title each in 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1999, with his last tour title coming at the 2002 PBA Pepsi Open in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He added a PBA50 Tour title in 2013.

Despite his hall of fame bowling career, to many, Pedersen is most recognizable as the TV color analyst and “voice of the PBA Tour.” It’s a role he has filled for the last 25 years on networks that include FOX, FS1, ESPN, CBS and CBS Sports Network.

A three-time Bowlers Journal First Team All-American, Pedersen was ranked 35th on the list of the 50 Greatest Players in PBA history in 2008 and was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 2011.

As a key influencer in the bowling industry, Hamilton’s distinguished career spans more than five decades and is characterized as being creative, energetic and effective, which has led to advancing the brand of bowling internationally.

Hamilton, 61, played an important role in bowling as the president/co-owner of Luby Publishing, Inc. and as the publisher of Bowlers Journal International Magazine, which itself has a history that spans more than a century.

Hamilton and Mike Panozzo were just the fourth generation of owners of Luby Publishing and owned it for exactly 25% of its life when the publication was sold to USBC. The previous three generations of owners (David Luby, Mort Luby Sr. and Mort Luby Jr.) are all in the USBC Hall of Fame, and Mort Jr. also is in the PBA Hall of Fame.

As president, Hamilton doubled the size of LPI by creating several magazines, the first being Bowling Center Management, the official publication of the BPAA, to accompany its flagship publication, Bowlers Journal International. He also published a series of books, most notably The PBA 50 Greatest Bowlers, Earl and Revolutions II.

Hamilton led the effort in promoting the 100th anniversary of BJI in 2013. His innovative strategy resulted in national media coverage, including a featured story highlighted on the CBS Morning Show, a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal and scores of other national print and electronic media.

As a volunteer, Hamilton continued his quest to further the cause of the bowling industry by occupying the following positions: President of the International Bowling Media Association (2014-2018), Chairman and President of the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame (2011-2014) and Chairman of the IBPSIA Advisory Board (2005-2009).

Hamilton played a key role in the building of the new museum and hall of fame that resides within the International Bowling Campus. He also worked in cooperation with the city of Reno in opening bowling’s first satellite museum within the National Bowling Stadium. With the IBMA, Hamilton restructured the Chuck Pezzano Scholarship by creating a corporate partnership program that led to an increase in the scholarship.

Now in his fifth decade serving bowling, Hamilton is currently the Executive Director of the Illinois State Bowling Proprietors Association and sits on the Board of Directors of the Bowlers to Veterans Link, occupying the position of treasurer. He also is the publisher of the BBIA Consumer Catalog.

For his efforts in co-founding and chairing the IBPSIA Advisory board, Hamilton earned the “Friends of IBPSIA Award” in two consecutive years (2014 and 2015). He also received the BPAA Special Projects Award (2005) for the creation of Bowling Center Management and the BPAA Media Award (2018). Hamilton received the IBMA Mike Hennessey Award of Merit in 2021 and was inducted into the IBMA Luby Hall of Fame the following year. In 2024, Hamilton received the BPAA Chief Wapensky Award.

Clark, 55, has held several positions in the bowling industry, getting his start with the USBC in 2005 as Director of Communications before transitioning to Vice President of Marketing from 2006-2008.

Among his most notable contributions during his time with USBC were Bowling’s Clash of Champions (2007) and the PBA Women’s Series (2007-2008). In 2007, he also was instrumental in the start of BowlTV, USBC’s online channel for livestreaming and video content.

Additionally in 2007, he helped bring back women’s professional bowling for the first time since the PWBA went on hiatus in 2003 with the return of the U.S. Women’s Open. The event concluded with a series of five ESPN television broadcasts.

From a public relations and media perspective, Clark served as the executive editor for U.S. Bowler and U.S. Youth Bowler, USBC’s membership publications, with a combined reach of nearly 2 million. He also led USBC’s Strategic Planning Committee with a focus on growing the sport through increased media exposure, produced a bowling blog for USAToday.com (2001-2005) and served as the staff liaison to the USBC Hall of Fame Committee.

Clark moved on to a series of roles at the PBA that included PBA Tour Deputy Commissioner (2008-2011), PBA Tour Commissioner (2011-present) and PBA Chief Executive Officer (2013-2019). He has played a key role in the oversight of PBA Tour, PBA Regional and PBA Senior events, working with staff, bowlers, sponsors and proprietors.

His contributions at the PBA include the creation of the PBA World Series of Bowling (2009-present), Chris Paul CP3 Celebrity Invitational (2009-2021), PBA League (2013-2024), PBA Tour Finals (2016-present) and PBA Playoffs (2019-present).

Clark was instrumental in bringing visible oil patterns to TV, making dye-sub athletic jerseys a fixture in PBA competition, bringing dual-pattern/plastic ball-only/King of Bowling/PBA Clash/PBA Strike Derby/other unique formats to the PBA Tour and growing the PBA’s online (Xtra Frame) and TV coverage and presence.

Under his leadership, PBA bowling has appeared on ESPN, ESPN2, CBS, CBS Sports Network, FOX, FS1 and ABC, and his efforts helped secure multi-year deals with FOX Sports and Flo Sports in 2018. For countless hours and events, he has served as an executive producer for online and televised content.

A focus on the growth of the PBA and creating global membership and events led to PBA members in more than two dozen countries and a partnership with the International Bowling Federation (then World Bowling), allowing PBA Tour events to be held in 10 different countries.

Additionally, he has served as a board member for the International Bowling Media Association (2005-2009) and International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame (2014-present).

Clark has been honored as the Bowlers Journal International Person of the Year (2005 and 2018), earned the Bowling and Billiards Institute of America Industry Service Award (2008), USBC Joyce Deitch Trailblazer Award (2009), John Davis Award presented by Kegel (2019), Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America Media Award (2020), IBMA Alberta E. Crowe Meritorious Service Award (2024) and IBMHOF Striking Contribution Award (2024).

Through 2024, there are 460 members of the USBC Hall of Fame – 233 in Superior Performance, 127 in Meritorious Service, 55 in Veterans, 23 in Outstanding USBC Performance and 22 in Pioneer.

The USBC Hall of Fame was created in 2005 by merging the former American Bowling Congress and Women’s International Bowling Congress Halls of Fame.

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