G'day all, my name is Jessica Marriott.
I am the junior bowler that is being criticized on this website, you might ask how I am sure of this as my name is never mentioned, well if you where to look back at my scores bowled at shur graphics I bowled 705 scratch for a series. It also says how the CERTAIN BOWLER held a 75 handicap, in Werribee Cup witch was around the amount of handicap I did have in that particular tournament.
I would like to know where these people got their information from. the tournament director, from where ever, who was apparently relived that I did not win, to keep there comments to themselves, because this is how problems like these start. I believe myself to be good, honest bowler and on the particular day of the shur graphics I let my emotions get the better me and did not win, but what give people the right to say I had no right to win? If it is because you thought I had a fake average don’t you think you should have gone and seen the tournament directors instead of talking behind my back to other junior bowlers? Well I do!!
I would like to make it clear to people that my average has not stayed the same for 3 years, in fact, due to the simple maths I learnt in primary school, I found that I have increased my average. When I started taking bowling seriously in 2000 I bowling the shur graphics with about a 116 average, by East coast I had increased my average by four, from 116 to 120, then by 2001’s East coast I increased my average by a further five pins per game, from 120 to 125. In Werribee cup I wrote on my form my average to be 134, because at the time that’s what it was, but to my lack of concentration in league my average dropped, so they dropped my average to a 126. Then in shur graphics I went in on a 128 average. So where these people get that I have had a 120 average of the last 3 years, I don’t know. For in fact I head a 120 average for just on or under one year. Perhaps those people should go back to primary school and study simple maths again instead of getting there facts wrong and criticizing a 15 year old teenager who does well in tournaments. Also I would like to know when I was ever a 180 average bowler, because I have never, in my 10 years of bowling, held a 180 average. And as for “Dale” saying that I drop out of league to lower my average after 15 games, I would like to know where he/she got that information from because last season for my league I was a gold bowler, witch for those who don’t know, people who are gold bowlers bowl every week of the season with out missing one week.
Another question witch is going through my head is why me?? I mean in both Werribee cup and Shur Graphics there where bowlers who bowled more then me, so they had to also bowl over average. How come they are not being publicly discriminated against? Did the particular tournament director, discussed above, breath a sigh of relief that they won and did they cheer loudly because they bet me or where they hoping they would not win also? You should seriously think about those questions I just asked, and think, “Should I be here with these other directors”? My personal opinion is that you shouldn’t because you are meant to be encouraging junior bowlers not telling other bowlers “oh I hope she/he doesn’t win.” Then for the same questions I came up with the answers that perhaps it has to do with last year at East Coast, that a certain bowler wanted me dropped but instead she was. To her it seemed like favoritism as one of the managers was related to me. Or plainly it is because they hate me because I can do so well in tournaments and they cant.
I would just like to say that the junior bowlers and the tournament director who have a problem with me should be told of these facts. Also it should be raised that just because I come from a center that most bowlers don’t, Dandenong, and because I am not able to increase my average by 10 pins every year that gives no one the right to criticize me. Maybe you should all grow up and actually do something about it instead of crying about it on a website.
its things like this where u find out who ur real friends are. Also maybe u should all get new display names so ppl r unable to identify u if u dont wanna be identfed!! coz pplz i no who most of u r and u are not all very good bowlers urself and i am sure u all bowl well above ur average!! SO TELL SOMEONE WHO WILL DO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF USING A SITE!!
thanx, Jess
