Maxine Jenkins, who’s taught Spanish at Southwest High
School since 1999, never set out to be a bowling champion.
After starting the sport as an undergraduate at Florida
A&M University, Jenkins got sick and had to undergo two kidney transplants,
the last in 2007. With her illness, Jenkins said her doctors told her she
needed to keep busy and ease her stress level.
“Stress takes you out,” Jenkins said during a recent
interview at the high school. “So that (bowling) was a reliever from school and
all that. That really helped me.”
More than that, it made her a champion.
Jenkins, whose best single-game score in her career was 240,
finished first with a three-game 534 total individually while also finishing
first in the all-event class with a score of 1,441.
In all, there were nearly 1,400 bowlers in Jenkins’
division, which is for bowlers with averages of 129 or lower.
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