Notre Dame College Athletics

Tom Reid joined Notre Dame College as head coach of the women's bowling team prior to the start of the 2019-20 season.

He comes to NDC after a 38-year career at Oberlin College, where—in addition to coaching the intercollegiate team and youth programs—he taught beginning, intermediate and advanced bowling classes and was one of the school’s top-ranked instructors on RateMyProfessors.com throughout the last 15 years of his tenure. 

He authored A Good Way to Bowl as a textbook for the courses in 2001. Tom was inducted into the Elyria USBC Hall of Fame in 2000 as a youth coach and was named one of Bowlers Journal International’s inaugural Top 100 Coaches in 2006. His students include PBA and international champion Chris Loschetter, former Junior Team USA member and NCAA national collegiate champion (with Central Missouri State University) Erin Loschetter, and Griffin Sabelli, who posted the nation’s 8^th highest average (215, with Oberlin College) among intercollegiate bowlers during the 2013-14 season. He has also coached many beginners who developed into regional pros or lifetime bowlers, or who used concepts learned in bowling classes or youth leagues to thrive in other pursuits.

Tom earned his first coaching certification from the Institute of Professional Bowling Instruction in 1986. He is a United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Certified Silver level coach and a member of the National Collegiate Bowling Coaches Association (NCBCA) and the International Bowling Pro Shop and Instructors Association (IBPSIA). In his spare time, he operates Tom Reid Coaching, LLC, based in Lorain, Ohio.