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You might bowl your heart out and give it your all, but bowling is a team sport and so many other factors can come into play that it might seem nothing you can do will ever get you into first place, even if just fleetingly. Here are the top 25 people who had to put in the most weeks of bowling before finally achieving that dream for the first time.

Top 25 Bowlers Who Went The Longest Before Finally Getting To Enjoy First Place
Rank	Bowler	Weeks of Bowling it Took	Starting From	Finally Achieved 1st Place On
1.	Phil Schroeder	293	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Fall 2011, wk. 16
2.	Freda Schroeder	259	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Fall 2011, wk. 16
3.	Ben Spencer	208	Fall 2016, wk. 16	Spring 2023, wk. 16
4.	Ian Goetz	178	Fall 2011, wk. 16	Spring 2019, wk. 16
5.	Jonathan Vigliaturo	174	Fall 2011, wk. 16	Fall 2016, wk. 16
6.	Michael Gordon	159	Fall 2016, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
7.	Aubrey Moren	128	Fall 2008, wk. 16	Fall 2011, wk. 16
8.	Jason Carpio	123	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2006, wk. 16
9.	Scott Murdock	119	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Fall 2005, wk. 16
10.	Pat Searcy	116	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2006, wk. 16
11.	David Parre	114	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Fall 2007, wk. 16
12.	Aaron Barber	113	Fall 2016, wk. 16	Fall 2017, wk. 16
13.	Russell Bingham	110	Fall 2016, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
14.	Thomas Lin	98	Fall 2005, wk. 16	Fall 2006, wk. 16
15.	Kris Hiestand	81	Fall 2002, wk. 16	Spring 2007, wk. 16
16.	Demond Robinson	80	Fall 2005, wk. 16	Fall 2005, wk. 16
17.	Chris Lewis	79	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Fall 2008, wk. 16
18.	Seth Gunderson	77	Fall 2005, wk. 16	Fall 2005, wk. 16
19.	Chris Windham	58	Spring 2022, wk. 16	Spring 2024, wk. 16
20.	Dennis Walling	55	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
21.	Rich DeYoung	55	Fall 2005, wk. 16	Spring 2006, wk. 16
22.	Matthew Taylor	48	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
23.	Jennifer Seefeldt	48	Fall 2007, wk. 16	Fall 2008, wk. 16
24.	Chantal Jacot	47	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Spring 2019, wk. 16
25.	Ariel Waldman	46	Spring 2006, wk. 16	Spring 2007, wk. 16

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