Texas man in wheelchair bowls perfect game
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Shawn Beam is perfect.
Beam is celebrating bowling a 300 game Friday night at CityView Lanes in Fort Worth, Texas, KDFW reports.
And what makes the feat even more extraordinary is that he did it from his wheelchair.
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Beam said he was born with a pinched nerve and has been in a wheelchair all his life. He took up bowling when he was a teenager and has been competing for about 22 years.
Seven or eight strikes a night is normal for him. But on Friday he hit nine. Then he hit 10.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"That's when you know everybody noticed. The whole place stops and everybody gathers behind you," Beam told KDFW-FOX 4.
According to the American Wheelchair Bowling Association, it was the first time a bowler in a wheelchair had ever rolled a perfect game.
Officials at the U.S. Bowling Congress in Arlington, the headquarters for the sport, certified his score and put his game in the record books, the station reports.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Now he just hopes that others who are in a wheelchair know it's possible.