For most of the year, Mitch Hupé is an IT specialist with a division of the Manitoba government. But the 28-year-old from Winnipeg moonlights on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour. And he is having a ball.
For most of the year, Mitch Hupé is an IT specialist with a division of the Manitoba government. But the 28-year-old from Winnipeg moonlights on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour.Hupé claimed his first career PBA Tour title in May, combining with American Packy Hanrahan to win the PBA Roth/Holman Doubles Championship in Middleton, Delaware.
Bowling has been on the Pan Am menu since the 1991 games in Havana with Canada winning 13 bowling medals . The worlds feature singles, doubles, trios and team events. The 24 bowlers with the best cumulative scores then progress to the Masters match-play finale.He qualified for the Masters event as the 20th seed in the all-events standings. He didn't get any byes and had to bowl every round, defeating Thailand's JoJo Yannaphon, top seed Tackett, No. 2 seed Andrew Anderson and Canada's MacLelland before facing Troup in the final.
It is preceded by a draft, with team managers allowed to protect up to three members of last year's squad. Hupé and Lavoie were both retained by their teams.Other Canadians currently on the PBA Tour are Lavoie, Fach, Zach Wilkins of Barrie, Ont., and Nathan Ruest-Lajoie of Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac, Que.
"I felt like if I didn't give it a shot, I would probably regret not trying, I would always wonder 'What if?'" he said."So the following season, I joined . Away from the Tour, Hupé is an IT specialist with the Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation, a crown agency of the Manitoba government. Hupé, whose college degree was in information sciences, uses his tech skills to help maintain casinos.
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