Highly-gifted bowler Wayne Siebold undoubtedly traveled the longest distance this weekend to be honored by the Manitowoc County Bowling Association Hall of Fame.
Even an unexpected highway confrontation with a deer didn’t prevent Siebold, a Buffalo, Wyoming resident from being in Manitowoc Saturday for his special night.
Wayne and 5 other bowling greats were enshrined in the Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Knox’s Silver Valley Bar & Banquet Hall.
He and his wife are okay after the crash at Spearfish, South Dakota, but he quipped “The same couldn’t be said for the deer…The deer I can’t do too much about. The vehicle they can fix. It’s fine, worse things happen every day. So, you just have to be thankful. We still made it here, that’s the main thing.”
The accident made what would have been a 16-hour trip into 30 hours after they picked up a rental car.
Siebold reflected on the meaning of this honor for him.
“To me, it’s just a show of respect because it’s not about bowling numbers,” he told Seehafer News. “It’s about everybody appreciating what you’ve done through the association and having a lot of good friends that think you are deserving. It means more than I can even say. There are really no good words for it, it’s a really neat thing.”
The Siebold’s moved from the lakeshore area to Wyoming last October.
Wayne joined the Bowling Hall of Fame, started in 1979, along with Faith Skarda, Bernice Stueber, Neal Daffner, Tom Petska and the late Mike Kukurich.
WOMT and Seehafer Broadcasting again sponsored the Hall of Fame plaques.
Special Recognition awards were presented to former association president and longtime officer Rick Aukamp and to Bruce and Penny Wiegand from Bruce’s Bar and Bowl in Valders.
The MCBA also distributed $750 donations to both the Two Rivers Ecumenical Pantry and Hope House.
