Year inducted 2025
Andy started out as a talented left hander before working in the bowling industry as a pro shop operator where he has gone on to become probably the most experienced ball driller in the UK today. Starting in Stevenage in the 80’s and together with wife Shirley, the Ballmaster proshop moved to Enfield in the 90’s and now resides at Go Bowling Dunstable.
The first on our shores to become a USBC qualified Gold coach, who would go on to win a lot of medals as manager, coach and then head coach with Team England and trained some of the country’s best ever bowlers including his own daughter Kirsten who is the UK’s greatest ever female bowler and top of the Hall of Fame rankings. Voted as one of the top 100 coaches globally by bowlers Journal.
Andy has always been at the forefront of coaching methods and using cutting edge technologies to help bowlers understand the science of the sport and mental game to improve and continues to coach, help and train bowlers and athletes up to the very highest levels.