LIMA — An alternative teaching pathway at Bowling Green State University trains professionals to become licensed teachers to offset Ohio’s teacher shortage.

Teaching bowlers how to throw strikes and make spares comes naturally for Bill Neumann. The semi-retired math teacher from East Greenbush is not only one of the top senior bowlers in the Capital ...

Hershel Thompson's retirement is populated with children, small and large, intent on making strikes — at the bowling alley.

Within a few years, Minerva was teaching bowling to students at Muhlenberg High School. In the late 1960s, Minerva started teaching at Heister Lanes. “My mom had a lot of personality,” Sandi said.

But he’s also proud of other things the youth league is doing such as teaching bowling etiquette, the correct way to bowl and proper maintenance of each player’s bowling ball.

Joshua Arment, a certified instructor who has taught wellness for over three years, said he is teaching bowling classes to 120 students here at BYU this semester.