Nebraska Cornhuskers
Founded	1983; 42 years ago (1983)
University	University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Athletic director	Troy Dannen
Head coach	Paul Klempa (7th season)
Conference	Conference USA
Location	Lincoln, Nebraska
Home arena	Husker Bowling Center
Nickname	Cornhuskers
Colors	Scarlet and cream[1]
National championships
1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2021
NCAA Tournament appearances
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

TheNebraska Cornhuskers bowling team competes as part ofNCAA Division I, representing theUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln inConference USA. The program was founded as a club team in 1983 and became a varsity sport in 1997.

Nebraska is the most successful collegiate program in bowling history, winning eleven national championships and qualifying for everyNCAA championship. Most of this success came under Bill Straub, who founded the team in 1989 and coached for thirty-six years. The team has been coached by longtime assistant Paul Klempa since Straub's retirement in 2019.

Nebraska's bowling program began in 1983 under head coach Bill Straub, who led the team toWomen's International Bowling Congress-sanctioned national titles in 1991 and 1995. Women's bowling became an official varsity sport at NU in 1997, though its two-time club champion men's program did not, and the school granted Jennifer Daugherty the first full scholarship in collegiate bowling history.^[2] Nebraska won three more WIBC titles before the NCAA sanctioned its firstbowling tournament in 2004. The Cornhuskers won the first two NCAA championships under Straub, who retired in 2019 as a ten-time national champion and was elected to theUnited States Bowling Congress Collegiate Hall of Fame in 2025.^[3] The program has never been ranked lower than seventh.

In 2019, Straub retired and longtime assistant Paul Klempa was named head coach.^[4] Klempa led NU to its eleventh national title in 2021.

• Independent (1997–2025)
• Conference USA (2025–present)^[5]

• WIBC: 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001
• NCAA: 2004, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2021

• National bowler of the year: Kim Berke (1992),Diandra Hyman (2000),Shannon Pluhowsky (2001, 2004, 2005), Lindsay Baker (2006), Amanda Burgoyne (2007), Cassandra Leuthold (2010), Lizabeth Kuhlkin (2015), Raquel Orozco (2020), Crystal Elliot (2021), Jillian Martin (2025)
• NCAA championship most outstanding bowler: Shannon Pluhowsky (2004), Amanda Burgoyne (2005), Cassandra Leuthold (2009), Lizabeth Kuhlkin (2013), Julia Bond (2015), Crystal Elliott (2021)
• National coach of the year: Bill Straub (2005, 2013, 2017)

• Amanda Burgoyne – 2005
• Julia Bond – 2016
• Kelly Belzeski – 2017

Twenty Nebraska bowlers have combined for thirty-nine first-team All-America honors, in addition to sixteen second-team and thirteen third-team selections. The National Tenpin Coaches Association replaced the National Collegiate Bowling Coaches Association as the primary selector of All-America teams in 2004.

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• Bowling in the United States
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• Sports clubs and teams established in 1983

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