MONTGOMERY, Ala.| Alabama State University Head Bowling Coach Andrew Chatmon will be honored by the Central Alabama USBC 2022 Hall of Fame inductee on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022 .
 
The ceremony is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at Bowlero Bowling Lanes located at 1661 Eastern Blvd, Montgomery, Ala.
 
"I've been bowling in Montgomery for 30 years and to be recognized by my peers and the Central Alabama Bowling association is a great honor," Chatmon said.
I believe that being coach at Alabama State for the last 15 years has not only added to my coaching resume but added to my bowling resume and knowledge as well."
 

Chatmon is now in his 15th season as the head women's bowling coach after guiding Alabama State University, to its second SWAC Championship in 2021-22. He helped lead Alabama State post a school record 89 wins during the 2021-2021 season and has 721 career wins as the Lady Hornets head coach.  Additionally, Savannah Razor earned SWAC Tournament Most Valuable Player and First-Team All-SWAC honors during the championship run.
 
Chatmon has guided the Lady Hornets to the school's first ever title in 2016-2017 while also claiming regular season championship and a SWAC Tournament runner-up finished in 2013-2014 along with another regular season crown in 2017-18.

The 2018-29 squad posted five wins over nationally-ranked opponents, including defeating defending National Champion Steven F Austin in Houston at the Kat Klash sponsored by Sam Houston State. 

Chatmon and the Lady Hornets in his 14 years have set school records in wins six times including 82 wins in 2018-19, and has set the tone for the program in each of his 12 seasons. He has 606 career wins and a number of school records. He is a four-time SWAC Coach of the Year winner, 2011-2012, 2013-2014 including back-to-back years of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.

The Lady Hornets have advanced to the SWAC Championship final match two times, winning the regular season Championship, then losing to Alabama A&M in 2013-2014 and then winning it in 2016-2017 against Texas Southern, both matches were televised on ESPNU. 

He has had five student-athletes named as Freshman of the Year: Danielle Walker in 2012, Kaila Ryan in 2013, Lindsey Paredez in 2014 and Haley Young in 2016 and Alize Stevenson in 2018.  He has had multiple players named to the All SWAC team as well (Walker, Ryan, Briana Wells, Paredez, Young, Hresko, Sledge, Hosein, Stevenson) some of them multiple times. 

In 2014 and 2015 Walker was twice named Player of the Year and Ryan in 2016.  Not only has Chatmon reached new horizons on the athletic side his team has had academic success.  In 2012-13 the Lady Hornets had the highest GPA in the Nation with a 3.69. Many of the Lady Hornets have made the NTCA All-American All-Academic team each year.

Another 2014 accomplishment was being ranked 16^th nationally, the highest ranking in the history of the school program.

Chatmon brought 40 years of bowling experience to ASU and six years of coaching in the YABA Junior League in Montgomery.  He also has nine years as a USBC Silver Level Certified Coach.
 
"My parents were bowlers so I started being in the bowling alley at the age of between 5-7," added Chatmon. "I was also a military brat so every place we went around the world every military base had a bowling alley so that's something we did every Saturday morning. Through all the years of bowling you never think about hall of fame or anything like that you just do it because you like doing it."

 
He attended Alabama State from 1981-1985, where he majored in business management and played on ASU's baseball team where he was third on the team in RBIs and a career .323 batting average. 

Chatmon is a 2016 ASU graduate with a degree in business management. He is a member of Omega Psi Phi Inc. (service fraternity) Phi Beta Lamda (business Fraternity), Shrine Mason and the National 10 pin Coaches Association. Chatmon was a spring 2021 inductee into the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society of Education, focused on leadership, scholarship and service.