Marshall Kent (bowler)


Marshall Kent is an American ten-pin bowler from Yakima, Washington who currently competes on the PBA Tour and World Bowling Tour. He has been a member of Junior Team USA, and is a six-time and current member of Team USA. He has won multiple PBA titles and PBA regional titles.

Amateur career

Kent was a five-time member of Team USA, and was a two-time Collegiate Player of the Year bowling for Robert Morris University Illinois.
Kent won a gold medal in trios at the 2011 PABCON Youth Championships, and was the 2012 Russian Open Champion. He won two gold medals in the 2012 World Youth Championships, and a team gold medal in the 2012 PABCON Championships.
Kent won the as an amateur, and thus his win did not qualify for a PBA title.

Professional bowling career

Shortly after his Brunswick Euro Challenge win in March 2014, Kent joined the Professional Bowlers Association. He was named the 2014 Harry Golden PBA Rookie of the Year. In addition to four standard PBA Tour wins, Kent has five PBA Regional Tour titles and a runner-up finish at the 2016 U.S. Open.
2017 was Kent's first year with multiple PBA Tour wins. He finished the season fourth in PBA earnings, with a career-best $112,480. To date, he has career earnings of $459,393 and 17 career 300 games in PBA competition.
Despite a career-high five championship round appearances, Kent failed to win a title in the 2018 PBA Tour season. He did win the non-title season-ending PBA Clash event on December 23.

PBA Tour wins

  1. 2014: Kingdom International Open
  2. 2016: PBA Team Challenge
  3. 2017: Xtra Frame Lubbock Sports Open
  4. 2017: Grand Casino Hotel & Resort PBA Oklahoma Open

    Career statistics

Statistics are through the last complete PBA season.
SeasonEventsCashesMatch PlayCRA+PBA TitlesAverageEarnings
2012–1363210215.1812,735
2014139311217.0332,528
20152316810218.0456,793
20162818711219.2977,670
20172117932221.53112,480
201829181150217.54101,890
201927171140214.6259,948

+CRA = Championship Round Appearances
From 2013 to early 2018, Marshall dated PWBA bowler Danielle McEwan. The two initially met when both were members of Junior Team USA, but did not officially become a couple until representing Team USA at an event in Bangkok, Thailand. After five years of dating, McEwan and Kent went their separate ways for unspecified personal reasons.