A native of Monroeville, Pennsylvania and a 1999 graduate of Gateway High School, Kuberski is the lone bowling inductee in this year’s class.
Born April 20, 1981, he will celebrate his 44th birthday two weeks prior to this year’s ceremonies.
Upon graduation from GHS and with bowling in his blood, he attended the University of Nebraska where he was an Academic All-American honoree, helping the Cornhuskers to a third-place finish at the 2003 Intercollegiate Bowling Championships.
While at NU, he refined his game under the watchful eyes of former head coach Bill Straub, current Nebraska head coach Paul Klempa as well as former Team USA head coach and current Team Puerto Rico head mentor, Jeri Edwards.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in history, political science and philosophy from Nebraska in 2003, his MA in political science from the University of Akron in 2005 and his doctorate in political science from Texas A&M University in 2009.
He spent six years as a political science professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville.
His days as a competitive athlete include eight career 300 games (two while competing as a member of the Youngstown Bowling Association), two career 800 series (high 810) with a 230 high league average.
He is also a two-time George Wooten Sportsmanship Award recipient in the JTBA (Junior Tournament Bowlers Association of Ohio).
Prior to his arrival on the YSU campus as its second ever women’s head bowling coach, his first collegiate coaching experience came in 2008 when he served as the bowling coach of the Texas A&M men’s team, leading the Aggies to a win at the Big XII Championship Tournament.
Prior to YSU, he served as the head coach at Iowa Western Community College, previously serving as interim head coach at perennial Division I power Arkansas State University.
The first men’s and women’s head bowling coach at Iowa Western Community College, he was responsible for recruiting their inaugural class of 20 bowlers as well as laying the administrative groundwork for the program.
In addition to his instruction, he organized travel, managed the budget, ordered equipment, ran the team’s website and social media, fundraised and engaged with the community.
He also served as interim head coach and was an assistant at Arkansas State during the 2017-18 season. The Red Wolves went 27-12 in head-to-head matches under his leadership and won the 2017 Warhawk Classic.
While an assistant at ASU alongside three-time NTCA “Coach of the Year” Justin Kostick, the team won the 2018 Southland Bowling League championship and went on to finish fifth overall at the NCAA National Championship Tournament.
He has also served as a personal coach for over 15 years.
Since coming to YSU in December of 2018, he has taken the women’s program to new heights and turned them into one of the top Division I programs nationwide.
Over the past five seasons with Kuberski at the helm, the Penguins have never finished outside the Top-10 in the final, end of season NTCA (National Tenpins Coaches Association) team rankings.
In 2019-20, YSU finished 10th overall, were fifth the following season and finished 10th once again in 2021-22.
In 2022-23, YSU was seventh in the final rankings then in 2023-24 earned a third overall ranking.
A two-time NTCA, NCAA Division I ‘Coach of the Year’ (2019-20 and 2023-24) honoree, he was also named 2019-20 and 2022-23 Southland Conference ‘Coach of the Year,’ too.
He has guided the Penguins to four consecutive NCAA tournament appearances (2021 to 2024), three Elite Eight appearances (2021, 2023-24) and two Final Four appearances (2021, 2024).
Under his tutelage, five players have earned All-American laurels (Jade Cote, first-team; Madyson Marx and Kirsten Moore, second-team; Madyson Marx and Kirsten Moore, honorable mention) with two Penguins named NCAA Elite 90 Award honorees, Sarah Florence in 2021 and Kirsten Moore in 2024.
YSU has received an NTCA All-Academic Team Award every year under his leadership beginning with the 2018-19 campaign, posted a Top-3 GPA in the country at the conclusion of the 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons, including the highest cumulative grade point average in the country at the conclusion of the 2022-23 campaign.
During the 2023-24 season, the team posted a 206.8 per game average (103 matches, 535 games) which ranked second in the nation.
He is 423-242 (63.5 percent) overall as a head coach, including a 27-12 overall mark as head coach at Arkansas State.
He resides in Youngstown.
