E. J. Tackett

E. J. Tackett
Born (1992-08-07) August 7, 1992
Bowling Information
Affiliation PBA
Rookie year 2012–13
Dominant hand Right
Wins 8
300-games 13
Sponsors Motiv, Ultimate inserts, Genesis kinesiology tape

E. J. Tackett (born Eddie Tackett on August 7, 1992) is an American professional ten-pin bowler from Huntington, Indiana and a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) since 2012. Tackett has won eight PBA Tour titles, including two major championships. He was named PBA Player of the Year for the 2016 season.[1] Tackett is right-handed and uses a cranker-style delivery. He is a pro staff member for Motiv bowling balls, Ultimate inserts, and Genesis kinesiology tape.[2]

PBA career

Tackett made four championship round appearances over the 2012–13 and 2014 seasons, but did not win a title. He was named the PBA Rookie of the Year for the 2012–13 season. His first PBA Tour title came on June 28, 2015 at the PBA Xtra Frame Lubbock Southwest Open.[3] Later in the 2015 season, Tackett qualified as the top seed for the PBA World Championship, but lost in the final match to Gary Faulkner, Jr.[4]

Tackett had a highly successful 2016 season. He won his second career title on April 24 at the PBA Xtra Frame Storm Open.[5] He captured his third title on September 10 at the PBA Fall Swing Bear Open, also winning an additional $10,000 a day later in the non-title King of the Fall Swing event.[6] Tackett’s fourth PBA title came in the PBA Team Challenge in Las Vegas, NV on November 1. (This was the first PBA team event to award individual titles to the winning players.)[7] He then won his first PBA major and fifth title overall at the PBA World Championship, on December 11 in Reno, NV.[8] The four titles in 2016 helped E.J. earn PBA Player of the Year honors for the season. He is the second-youngest player (24) to be named Player of the Year. (Billy Hardwick won the first-ever PBA Player of the Year award in 1963, at age 22.)[1] Tackett led the Tour in wins (4) and earnings ($168,290), and was third in Tour average (224.49).[1]

Tackett’s run of victories continued into 2017, as he won the season’s opening event on January 14 at the DHC PBA Japan Invitational. This was his sixth PBA Tour title.[9] On February 19 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Tackett won his second major and seventh PBA title overall at the Fire Lake PBA Tournament of Champions.[10] Tackett continued his 2017 success with a win in the inaugural Main Event PBA Tour Finals on May 20. This invitational tournament featured the top eight players in PBA earnings from the start of the 2015 PBA Tour season through the 2017 USBC Masters. As the #2 seed, Tackett survived the round-robin and group stepladder matches, eventually defeating #1 seed Jason Belmonte in the three-game final. This was his third victory of 2017 and eighth title overall.[11]

Tackett has rolled 13 perfect 300 games in PBA competition through June 2017, and has earned over $500,000 on the PBA Tour.[2]

PBA Tour titles

Major titles in bold text.

Career statistics

Statistics are through the last complete PBA season.

Season Events Cashes Match Play Final Rounds PBA Titles Average Earnings ($)
2012–13 16 10 5 2 0 220.17 42,372
2014 13 9 5 2 0 221.09 74,150
2015 21 13 10 2 1 223.21 78,758
2016 26 21 16 5 4 224.49 168,290

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 3 Vint, Bill (February 5, 2016). "Tackett Wins GEICO Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year Award; Canada’s Lavoie Named Rookie of the Year". Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "PBA Profile, EJ Tackett". PBA.com. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "EJ Tackett wins first PBA Tour Title in Xtra Frame Lubbock Sports Southwest Open". boxscorenews.com. June 28, 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ Vint, Bill (December 17, 2015). "Memphis’ Gary Faulkner Jr. Wins First Title in Rolltech PBA World Championship". Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  5. 1 2 "EJ TACKETT WINS PBA XTRA FRAME STORM OPEN". bowlingdigital.com. April 25, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  6. 1 2 Schneider, Jerry (October 19, 2016). "EJ Tackett Defeats Sean Rash to Win PBA Fall King of the Swing Finale". Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  7. 1 2 Vint, Bill (November 1, 2016). "‘Merica Rooster Illusion Uses Closing-Game Strike Barrage to Topple BFFs for PBA Team Challenge Title". pba.com. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  8. 1 2 Vint, Bill (December 11, 2015). "Indiana’s E.J. Tackett Wins PBA World Championship for First Major, Fourth 2016 Title". Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  9. 1 2 Vint, Bill (January 14, 2016). "Indiana’s E.J. Tackett Goes on Strike Binge to Win DHC PBA Japan Invitational to Kick Off PBA’s 2017 Season". Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  10. 1 2 Vint, Bill (February 19, 2017). "Unexpected Error Helps Indiana’s EJ Tackett Win FireLake PBA Tournament of Champions". Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  11. 1 2 Vint, Bill (June 27, 2017). "Indiana’s EJ Tackett Wins Inaugural Main Event PBA Tour Finals for Third 2017 Title". Retrieved July 5, 2017.
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