NEW SPORT: BOWLING

Beginning next academic year, men’s and women’s bowling will become the 20th and 21st sports in Luther’s athletics department, making the Norse the third member of the American Rivers Conference to add the sport. Luther’s home venue will be King Pin Entertainment Center in Decorah, and Dan Bellrichard ’01 will coach the new teams. “My goals are not only to build an excellent bowling program but also to help the team members be successful in the bowling alley, the classroom, and the community,” he says.

A Legendary Game

On the night of Sept. 16, 2022, Luther College and Briar Cliff University became the first collegiate teams to play on the iconic Field of Dreams field in Dyersville, Iowa.

Before the game, Luther alumni players from each decade, from the ’50s on up, came together to scrimmage.

Participant Kent Stock ’85 remarked, “I just had knee-replacement surgery 11 months ago, and I said, ‘I’m in. I’m not going to miss that.’”

A highlight for many was finally watching the Luther baseball team walk out of the cornfield and onto the field. And while the end score didn’t favor the Norse, the crowd went wild when Ghavin James ’23 hit a home run deep into the corn.

The team had watched the movie the Tuesday before the game, and player Ryan Manternach ’23 summed it up well when he said, “It’s exactly like the movie. Perfect, I guess, is the only way to describe it.”