SEATTLE – The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) has named Bob Glass the 2001 PBA Senior Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. With four wins in 2001 including the American Bowling Congress (ABC) Senior Masters.

Glass led the seniors in nearly every statistical category including wins, season earnings ($78,900), championship round appearances (10), match play appearances (13), points (23,480) and 2001 average (223.19). Glass received 94% of the first-place votes to win the honor and was the only person on the ballot to receive multiple votes. Voting for the award was open to the entire PBA membership.

"I am really surprised to win two years in a row," said Glass. "I never thought that I could duplicate the year I had in 2000 and I not only did that but had a better year in 2001."

Glass' other wins during the year came in Syracuse, New York; Reading, Pennsylvania and Hammond, Indiana. The 54-year-old, who owns six senior titles overall, is only the third person to win multiple PBA Senior Player of the Year honors since the inception of the award in 1989. John Handegard (1991, '95, '96) and Gary Dickinson (1993, '94, '97) are the only other seniors to accomplish this feat.

In addition, Glass is just the third senior to win four titles in one year. Both Pete Couture and Dale Eagle won four titles in a year and consequently each was named PBA Senior Player of the Year in 1998 and '99 respectively.

Glass, who also had one second-place finish, four third-place finishes and one fourth-place finish during the year, won the Dick Weber Senior Point Leader Award for the second-consecutive year, with 23,480 points in 13 events, putting him nearly 4,000 points ahead of Eagle, who came in second in points (19,500). He also won the PBA Senior High Average Award for the third consecutive year. He averaged 223.19 over 13 tournaments and 561 games (the most on the senior circuit) in 2001.

"When I first won the high average award in 1999 I think it was because I bowled only about half of the events but they were the high-scoring events," said Glass. "But the last two years I have just been bowling great and I have made all the cuts to match play so that gives me a lot of games to build up my average. I do consider it quite an accomplishment.