2023-24 (Graduate Year): Named to Fall AD Honor Roll ... Competed in 18 traditional and 18 Baker games… Averaged 179.8 in traditional play… Had a season-high 216 at the MEAC Conference #2 Meet on Feb. 17-19… Averaged a season-high 180.5 at the 2024 MEAC Championship.
2022-23 (Senior Year): Competed in 29 traditional games and 21 baker games… Averaged 174.3 in traditional play… Recorded a season-high 263 at the 2023 MEAC Championships on Mar. 24…Averaged 229.5 at the 2023 MEAC Championships… Voted Team MVP at the Spartan Choice Awards.
2021-22 (Junior Year): Competed in six meets … Knocked down 5,158 pins for a 166.4 average in traditional games … Saved her best for last, with a 179 average at the MEAC Championships, including a game of 199 … Also averaged a 178.4 at the second MEAC meet in Virginia Beach in February … Had a high game of 201, her best of the season, that weekend … Member of the MEAC All-Academic Team.
2020-21 (Sophomore Year): Member of the AD’s Honor Roll both semesters … Competed in all 12 traditional games and all six Baker games … Averaged 160.9 in traditional play, including a season-high game of 189 at the North Carolina A&T Dual Meet on Feb. 28 … Averaged 168.6 in five games, with a high game of 187, at the Stallings Invitational on March 14.
2019-20 (Freshman Year): Bowled in 27 traditional games and all 52 Baker games on the year … Named the MEAC Rookie of the Week after the first tournament of the season … Earned a spot on the AD Honor Roll both semesters … Averaged 165.9 in traditional play with a total pin fall of 4,480 … Bowled a pair of 200 games during the year … Secured her first 200 game with a 211 during the Virginia Union Invitational on Nov. 2 … Averaged a career-best 173.8 in five games to earn the MEAC Rookie of the Week award … Bowled a career-high 216 in a win over Virginia State and tallied a 172.8 average in five games during the James Brown Invitational on Feb. 15 … Had games of 198 and 195 during the two games of the Morgan State dual meet on Jan. 18 … Tallied a 192 in a win over Morgan State at the TNBA/HBCU Invitational on March 7.
High School: Did not begin bowling until her freshman year of high school … During her senior year in 2018-19, averaged 170 in the Tidewater Team Travel League and 170 as well in a fall and spring challenge shot league … Averaged 162 in a spot shot Junior Gold league … Had a high game of 265 and a high series of 730 that year … Competed at the 2018 Junior Gold Championships in Dallas in 2018 … Averaged nearly 165 there … Also competed at Junior Gold in Cleveland in 2017 … As a junior in high school, averaged 173 in the fall and 165 in a spring challenge shot league … Had a 157 average in the Tidewater Team Travel League … Posted a 152 average on sport shot in a Junior Gold league … Went for a 181 average in a summer league with a high game of 256 and high series of 666 … Posted the highest average in the league … Turned a 172 average at the beginning of the year into a 182 average at the end in the challenge shot league during her sophomore year in 2016-17 … Averaged 175 in the Tidewater Team Travel League and 144 in the sport shot Junior Gold league … Had a high women’s handicap in a high school bowling league and was named the Most Improved Bowler in that youth league … Had a 114 average during the start of her freshman year but bumped it up to 171 by the end of the year … Rolled a 151 average in her first spot shot Junior Gold league … Had a high scratch series of 622 in her youth league and was named the Most Improved Bowler … Earned a certificate from the Virginia House of Delegates for being on the Honor Roll her junior and senior years.
Personal: Full name is Megan Elizabeth Wheat … Born on Nov. 3, 2000 … Daughter of Bryan and Lisa Wheat … Has two older brothers, Brandon and Nick … Majoring in INT/elementary education … Wants to become an early elementary school teacher.
Wheat's Career Statistics
| YEAR |
Pinfall |
GP |
Avg. |
High |
| 2019-20 |
4,480 |
27 |
165.9 |
216 |
| 2020-21 |
1,931 |
12 |
160.9 |
189 |
| 2021-22 |
5,158 |
31 |
166.4 |
201 |
| 2022-23 |
5,056 |
29 |
174.3 |
263 |
| 2023-24 |
3,229 |
18 |
179.8 |
216 |
| Totals |
19,854 |
117 |
169.7 |
263 |
Baker
| YEAR |
GP |
| 2019-20 |
52 |
| 2020-21 |
6 |
| 2021-22 |
27 |
| 2022-23 |
21 |
| 2023-24 |
18 |
| Totals |
124 |
