CLEVELAND – After the National Tenpin Coaches Association announced its All-Rookie Teams earlier today, freshman phenom Madilyn Bogovic (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff) was recognized by the organization as the Division II Rookie of the Year and a Second Team All-American, the organization announced at its pre-championship banquet on Thursday evening.

Bogovic won the honors after leading all DII competition in baker double percentage (57.0 percent), strike percentage (54.6 percent), traditional frame average (21.1 pins) and baker frame average (21.25 pins). The DII honor is the top rookie recognition for a first-year bowler at the Division II level, while the All-American honor includes all of the nation's bowlers, regardless of division.

Bogovic's individual accomplishments in her first collegiate season were only rivaled by the top bowlers on the nation's highest-ranked teams. The Player Composite Performance Index, a scale developed by the NTCA that combines both traditional and baker numbers while measuring fill, strike, and overall conversion rate, placed Bogovic 12th among all bowlers and tops among Division II or III counterparts.

Her performance throughout the season kept the Golden Bears in the national rankings throughout the season and lifted the team to a 57-31 season and a third-place finish at the East Coast Conference Championships in late March.

The Cedar Cliff High School Product becomes the seventh Kutztown kegler to achieve All-American status, which has now been reached for the tenth time overall and in back-to-back seasons for the third time in program history, following Chloe Sromovski's (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./G.A.R. Memorial) honorable mention recognition in 2025. Bogovic also becomes the third Kutztown bowler to earn Division II Rookie of the Year honors, after two other Golden Bear bowlers, Kayla Stamm (2008) and Kayla Jones (2009) collected the honor in back-to-back seasons nearly two decades ago.

Bogovic is set to return to the Golden Bears squad next season with a core of young bowlers, including Kamryn Brenneman (York, Pa./Central York), a Second Team All-ECC selection this past season, and fellow ECC All-Rookie Team member Isabella Hopper (Mifflinville, Pa./Berwick). She will look to build on her efforts in the 2026-27 campaign as she sets her eyes on the possibility of becoming the Golden Bears' ninth All-American and picking up the honors for just the second time since 2014.