David Fields

DAVID LYNN FIELDS DAVID FIELDS WAS BORN AUGUST 13, 1962, WITH HIS TWIN BROTHER, JIMMY TO CAROLYN AND JIMMY FIELDS. THEY WERE BORN AND RAISED IN PASADENA, TEXAS. DAVID BEGAN BOWLING WHEN HE WAS SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD AS A SENIOR IN THE PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL BOWLING CLUB AT MEADOWCREEK LANES. HE WENT ON TO BOWL IN LA PORTE WHERE HE BECAME A DIRECTOR IN THE LA PORTE BOWLING ASSOCIATION AND WAS ELECTED AS A VICE-PRESIDENT.

IT WAS IN LA PORTE, IN 1984, THAT AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE, HE BOWLED HIS FIRST 300 GAME AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR HIS FIRST 800 SERIES. DAVID BEGAN BOWLING IN PASADENA IN 1986 AT HURRICANE LANES. HE BOWLED MANY HONOR SCORES IN PASADENA EVENTUALLY SETTING THE CITY RECORD ON FEBRUARY 14, 1990 WITH AN 836 SERIES, A RECORD THAT STOOD FOR TWO YEARS.

IN THE LAST TWELVE YEARS, DAVID HAS POSTED MANY MORE ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDING FIFTEEN 300 GAMES AND SEVEN 800 SERIES. IN 1990 HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE PASADENA CITY CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM AND HE WAS THE PASADENA CITY CHAMPION FOR 1999.

HE IS A THREE TIME RECIPIENT OF THE ABC MERIT AWARD FOR HIGH ASSOCIATION SERIES. DAVID HAS ALSO BEEN A MEMBER OF MANY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS AND NUMEROUS AWARDS FOR LEAGUE HIGH SERIES AND GAME. DAVID HAS HELD ALL OFFICER POSITIONS AND IS A STAPLE AT ALL LEAGUE MEETINGS STRIVING TO MAKE LEAGUES STRONGER WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FAIRNESS.

FROM 1986-1990 DAVID WAS CO-TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR OF THE TRAVELING TEXAS JUNIOR MASTER SCRATCH TOURNAMENTS, CEMENTING HIS POSITION AS A MENTOR FOR YOUTH BOWLERS IN PASADENA AND HOUSTON.

MANY GOOD YOUNG BOWLERS TODAY LEARNED THEIR SKILLS FROM DAVID. MOST NOTABLY IS HIS SIXTEEN YEAR OLD NEPHEW, JEREMY, WHO IS POISED TO EXTEND THE FIELDS FAMILY LEGACY IN PASADENA.