Tulane Bowling Adds Pennsylvania State Champion Malia Briggs to the Fold
Tulane University head bowling coach Hayley Veitch has announced the addition of Malia Briggs to the Green Wave program for the 2026-27 campaign. The Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, native will join the nationally ranked Wave next year after graduating from Chambersburg Area Career Magnet School.
Briggs is coached by her father, Michael Paul Briggs, and has achieved a plethora of success. The 2024 Pennsylvania High School Girls Singles State Champion, Briggs then finished runner-up in the 2025 High School Nationals in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was the third-place finisher in the 2025 Pennsylvania High School Girls Singles State Championship.
Further filling her trophy cabinet, Briggs has won two Tough Shot Tour Titles in North Carolina. She has accrued seven Storm Youth Championship silver medals while adding a PJBT Girls Only Scratch title and Beast of the East title. She also competed in the USA National Team Bowling Championships.
With a passion for content creation, Briggs has parlayed her bowling talents and success into a growing social media following. She boasts over 363,000 YouTube subscribers alongside 325,000 followers on Instagram, 58,000 followers on Facebook, and 45,900 followers on TikTok. With her strong support and following, she appeared on Fox and Friends with GoBowling last year for National Bowling Day, bowling outside the Fox studio in Times Square. In August earlier this year, she served as the grand marshal at Watkins Glen International representing Storm and GoBowling. There she had the honor to bowl alongside hall-of-famer Norm Duke with NASCAR fans. Other special experiences for Briggs include bowling in Beat the Champ in Chicago, Illinois, alongside two pros, and she threw out the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game.
On top of her bowling prowess, Briggs played basketball for five years as a shooting guard and won two conference championships. Outside of athletics, Briggs is just as successful as a member of the National Honor Society and the Business Academy. She has been the president of her school’s bowling club since 2024 and is a member of the Distinguished Honor Roll.
Briggs is a fan of Caitlin Clark, and her hobbies include editing, shopping, fishing, and basketball. She aims to compete on the Professional Women’s Bowling Tour and have a job centered in marketing while continuing her passion as a social media content creator.
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Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.