The Nebraska bowling team captured its eighth national title in 2009.

In 13 years as a varsity sport, Nebraska has become one of the top programs in the nation. Nebraska Coach Bill Straub has guided the Huskers to unprecedented success, winning national titles in 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2009. Once bowling became an NCAA-sanctioned sport in 2003, the Huskers won back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005 and captured another in 2009.

While 66 tournament titles in 119 competitions after the 2008-09 campaign creates an impressive list of accomplishments, Straub's bowlers have finished among the top three teams in 86 percent of their tournaments since the start of the program.

The constant success under Straub has made the Huskers a fixture in the national polls, ranking in the top five nationally since 1990, when the sport was flourishing at the club level. Over the years, Straub has been a constant in Nebraska bowling success.

While the Husker team accomplishments have been paramount, numerous bowlers have also enjoyed individual success.NU has had at least one All-American in each of the last 20 years, dating back to the bowling club program days. Since 1989, 22 Huskers have combined for a totall of 47 first-, second- and third-team All-America awards, while Kim Berke (1992), Diandra Hyman (2000), Shannon Pluhowsky (2001, 2004, 2005), Lindsay Baker (2006) and Amanda Burgoyne (2007) were each chosen as the National College Bowler of the Year.

Straub has been a visionary in the sport of college bowling, championing the sport through its club program days and was a natural to bercome Nebraska's first varsity head coach in 1997. The first year was historic in several respects, but most important was granting of the first full scholarship in the sport's history to Jennifer Daugherty, who went on to earn first-team All-America honors in both 1998 and 1999.

College bowling has experienced rapid growth in recent seasons, doubling to more than 40 schools in the last four years. In 2002, the NCAA announed that bowling would become an NCAA-sanctioned sport, and legislation was approved on April 24, 2003, allowing for the first NCAA Championship in the spring of 2004. Since the NCAA Championship was initiated, NU has captured the title three times in 2004, 2005 and 2009, giving NU eight national crowns in the sport.

Most recently, the Nebraska bowling team was crowned the 2009 NCAA National Bowling Champion on Saturday, April 12, at Super Bowl Lanes in Canton, Mich. The Huskers defeated Central Missouri State University, 4-1, for the crown.