Coronado High senior is headed to Northern Ireland for an international tournament next month as the sole member of Team USA
Angel Gomez was 7 the first time he saw people lawn bowling. He thought it looked fun. And he thought something else.That made him doubt children could take part at the
Next month he’s headed to a tournament in Northern Ireland, the only American youth sent to the international competition byHe’ll be there with juniors from Australia, Hong Kong, England, Hungary, Canada, Israel and elsewhere. Gomez attends Coronado High. With help from Berie Grobe, president of the Coronado club, he’s been able to get physical education credit for participating in the sport. He sometimes introduces classmates to it, he said, but they don’t usually come back. They find bowls too slow.He likens it to chess in terms of strategy, how you have to think ahead. How the move you make depends on what your opponent just did. And, like chess, the matches can be long — about three hours.
Gomez got serious about bowls during the pandemic when there wasn’t much else to do, he said. His father, Javier Gomez, 52, is a strong player, too, and they began entering more tournaments around Southern California. Entering, and winning.At a recent “all-star” competition between nine different clubs in the region, Coronado took first place with the Gomez pair on its team. The five-person squad went undefeated in the tournament.
But they said the sport isn’t snooty, that people have greeted them with open arms wherever they’ve gone.When competitors from clubs in other cities noticed that Angel Gomez could play, word spread. It made its way to officials with Bowls USA, and pretty soon they got to wondering: What if we sent him to a tournament as a junior member of Team USA?
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