Article: Fairmont's Grady grows into bowling shoes ; The senior wins the state championship with a 730 series.

KETTERING -- It took a little arm-twisting to get Jennifer Grady to slip on her first pair of bowling shoes.

"My friends made me," Grady said. "I had never bowled -- ever -- and I never thought I'd get good at it."

Grady, 17, has come a long way from a reluctant eighthgrader in the Saturday morning youth league to an Ohio state bowling champion. The Kettering Fairmont High School senior breezed past the competition with a 730 series to capture the girls individual state title at Tiki Lanes in Lancaster on March 1.

Second-place finisher Kelsey Zumfelde of Napoleon trailed Grady by 65 pins with a 665.

"My first game, I always bowl a good game but then I mess up," Grady said. "But not this ...

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