GO BOWLING PARTNERS WITH MILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION AND BVL ON CAMPAIGN TO SEND VETERANS TO PATRIOT POINT RETREATS

GO BOWLING PARTNERS WITH MILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION AND BVL ON CAMPAIGN TO SEND VETERANS TO PATRIOT POINT RETREATS

ARLINGTON, Texas – Go Bowling is back again to partner with the Military Bowl Foundation and Bowlers to Veterans Link on a nationwide social media campaign designed to reward veterans by sending them on a Patriot Point Retreat.

Patriot Point is the Military Bowl Foundation’s 294-acre waterfront facility that provides a safe, secure and tranquil outdoor recreational and therapeutic retreat for wounded, ill and injured active-duty service members, veterans, their families and caregivers who face daily struggles related to their time spent defending our great nation.

Through its partnership with Go Bowling and the Go Bowling Military Bowl, the BVL is donating $100,000 to Patriot Point for the purpose of rewarding 100 deserving veterans who will attend a four-day, three-night therapeutic and recreational retreat tailored to the needs of each attending veterans group.

Eight of these 100 veterans will be nominated by the BVL bowling community through a national social media campaign deployed by Go Bowling to the broader bowling social media communities of the Bowling Proprietors Association of America, the United States Bowling Congress and the BVL. Patriot Point staff then will use a selection criteria that will includ the nominee’s veteran status, connection to the bowling community, personal challenges faced during military service and more to determine which BVL-nominated veterans (and a companion) will be chosen to attend the Patriot Point Retreat.

Members of the bowling community and the public at large who are interested in this initiative will be able to submit nominations of veterans they know and bowl with via an online form on GoBowling.com where the selection criteria and nomination process will be disclosed.

“We are dedicated to supporting the Bowlers To Veterans Link (BVL), bowling’s own and oldest charity, raising more than $56 million since 1942 to fund recreation therapy programs that address the emotional and physical needs of veterans and active-duty military.  The opportunity to send worthy veterans on a retreat to Patriot Point is a wonderful way for the bowling community to say thank you to the brave men and women who have sacrificed so much in the service of our country,” said BPAA President Kevin Krauss. “We encourage bowlers all across the…