Wichita State University head bowling coach Gordon Vadakin has been selected as the 2012 Bowling Coaches Hall of Fame inductee.
Only one active coach is inducted per year. Vadakin has led the Shockers to 17 of their 19 national championships.
The Bowling Coaches Hall of Fame is in its fifth year of honoring bowling’s finest coaches.
Vadakin will join previous inductees Dick Ritger, Tom Kouros, John Jowdy and Fred Borden in the hall of fame.