Women's Bowling | 3/19/2026 10:58:00 PM

GREENSBORO – One streak ended on Thursday, but another one continued. The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) announced its 2025-26 postseason honors, and for the sixth straight season, MEAC head coaches named Kim Terrell-Kearney MEAC Coach of the Year. However, for the first time since the 2019-20 season, an Aggie did not win MEAC Player of the Year. That distinction went to UAB's Madison Colston.

Sophomore Victorya White, the MEAC's 2025-26 preseason player of the year, earned first-team All-MEAC honors for the second straight season. Due to A&T's depth this year, White was the sole Aggie on the first, second, or third All-MEAC teams, as other teammates did not bowl enough frames to qualify for postseason honors.

One bowler is the fewest the Aggies have had on the MEAC's first team since the 2019-20 season.

Yet Terrell-Kearney led the Aggies to their sixth straight MEAC regular-season crown this season, going a combined 12-2 at the two MEAC Meets to keep the streak alive. The Aggies head into this weekend's (March 20-22) MEAC Bowling Championship Tournament at Greensboro's Triad Lanes as the No. 1 seed, as Terrell-Kearney is looking to lead the Aggies to their fifth MEAC tournament title in six years. The Aggies enter the postseason 69-35 overall.

"We have been so fortunate to have some really great players over the years," said Terrell-Kearney. "This is the youngest we've been in a long time. But these young ladies want to get better, and in turn, that makes me want to get better to help them get to where they want to be as bowlers.

The entire spring semester has been an example of hard work paying off. Watching the team get better every week has been a joy. Every Tuesday after tournaments, seeing them willing to put everything on the line so they're prepared for the next weekend has been rewarding for me. The team's growth from January until now has been remarkable."

Nationally, the Aggies are ranked 12th. They recently finished as the top qualifying team at the Intercollegiate Team Championship Fort Worth Sectional and will again compete for an ITC national championship, sponsored by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC), April 13-18 in Green Bay, Wis. Notably, this marks the second consecutive year Terrell-Kearney has led the Aggies to the top sectional qualifying spot.

The Aggies led the conference in several team categories, including scoring average (19.68), fill percentage (82.84%), strike percentage (47.44%), and single-pin conversion rate (88.27%). Terrell-Kearney is 775-370 in 10 seasons with the Aggies. Her coach of the year honor from the MEAC marks her seventh such honor from the league. She won the inaugural MEAC Coach of the Year award in 2009 as the head coach at Delaware State.

White gives Terrell-Kearney 24 first-team selections. Fourteen different Aggies have earned first-team All-MEAC honors under Terrell-Kearney. White bowled 1,025 total frames this season. She ranks 15th in the nation in single-pin spare conversion (93.4). She had a 49.9 strike percentage, a 70.6 single-spare percentage, and made 83.1 percent of her makeable spares. During team traditional play this season, White had a total pinfall of 6,900 over 34 games, averaging 202.94.

North Carolina A&T will face No. 8 Norfolk State in the opening round of the MEAC tournament at 9 a.m. at Triad Lanes.