THE LEWIS FILE
All-Americans: 71
Academic All-Americans: 149
Regular Season Tournament Wins: 133
National Team Members: 52
Rookie of the Year: 4 (Juliana Botero, Sydney Brummett, Jazreel Tan, Kristal Scott)
Players of the Year: 10 (Madison Janack, Sydney Brummett, Dasha Kovalova, Tannya Roumimper 2x, Jazreel Tan 2x, Sandra Gongora, Anita Manns, Sara Duque Jiménez)
PWBA Champions: 5 champions have won 12 events
National Championships: 5
National Finals: 10
National Semi-Finalists: 17
Singles National Champions: 6 (Sara Duque Jiménez, Paige Wagner, Sydney Brummett, Daniela Alvarado, Elysia Current, Olivia Sandham)
A United States Amateur Champion, Olympian and Hall of Famer, Lewis was announced as the program's assistant coach on September 9, 2023 and enters his second season with the program at the NCAA level in 2025-26.
Lewis has been involved with Wichita State bowling in a variety of roles since he bowled for the Shockers from 1978-1981. He was part of the first men’s national championship team at WSU in 1980 and followed up his collegiate career with a run of individual successes, highlighted by the 1988 United States Amateur Championship. Later that year, he represented the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, where bowling was conducted as an exhibition sport. Lewis finished sixth in the individual competition.
Lewis joined the Wichita State coaching staff as a volunteer assistant and spent two years coaching in the United Arab Emirates prior to his hiring as a Shocker bowling assistant coach in 1999. In 2019, he was named Director of Shocker Bowling following the retirement of longtime head coach Gordon Vadakin.
Lewis is a member of the Great Plains USBC Hall of Fame, the Kansas State USBC Hall of Fame, the USBC Hall of Fame and the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame.
