Julia Bond

Honors and Awards

• Three-time PWBA Tour Champion
• 2022 World Games Silver Medalist (Doubles)
• 2021 USBC Queens Winner
• Seven-Time Team USA Member
• U.S. Amateur Champion (2017)
• NCAA Bowling Championship Most Outstanding Bowler (2015)
• NTCA All-American (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• NCAA All-Tournament Team (2015, 2016)
• U.S. Amateur Runner-up (2018)
• NTCA Scholastic All-American (2015, 2016)
•  Academic All-Big Ten (2016, 2017, 2018)
• Four-Time Junior Team USA Member

Former Husker great Julia Bond is in her fourth season on the Nebraska bowling coaching staff after rejoining the program in September of 2021. 

Bond made a significant impact in her first season, as Nebraska earned top-three finishes in eight of nine regular-season events, including five tournament titles. The five tournament wins were NU’s highest total since winning six events during the 2017-18 season. She also tutored three bowlers to NTCA All-America honors.

Nebraska demonstrated its continued success in the 2024-25 season, earning three tournament titles and finishing with a 95-25 record. The Huskers topped the February NTCA polls, the first time since the 2021-22 preseason. NU qualified for the NCAA Tournament as the No. 2 overall seed and finished in third place at the NCAA Championships in Las Vegas. Four Huskers earned NTCA All-America honors, with Jillian Martin named NTCA Player of the Year as she led the nation in eight NTCA-recognized individual categories.

Despite the 2023-24 season holding no tournament titles, the team demonstrated Nebraska’s reputation as a powerhouse program, earning double Runner-Up finishes, as well as a pair of third-place finishes. The team ended the season with an 85-41 record. Nebraska continued its streak of being the only team in the nation to qualify for postseason appearances since the addition of women’s bowling to the NCAA in 2004.

Bond, a four-time All-American as a collegian, returned to her alma mater after winning three events in 2021, highlighted by United States Bowling Congress Queens for her first career major. She has also been a member of Team USA since 2017 and earned a silver medal at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala. Before turning professional in 2018, she won the 2017 U.S. Amateur and was the runner-up the following year.

As a Husker, Bond enjoyed one of the most decorated careers in program history. She is one of only five bowlers in school history to be a four-time NTCA All-American since the program earned varsity status  in 1997-98. Bond finished third in career average (210.092), won six individual event titles and posted 21 top-five finishes in 49 events.  A three-time first-team NTCA All-American, she was named the Most Outstanding Bowler at the 2015 NCAA Championships in helping the Huskers to an NCAA title. She was a two-time NCAA All-Tournament selection, helping the Huskers to a national title and a pair of NCAA runner-up finishes during her four seasons as a Husker.

Bond, who graduated from Nebraska in 2019 with a degree in forensic science, also shined in the classroom. She was a two-time NTCA Scholastic All-American (2015-16) and a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (2016-17-18). She was a nine-time member of the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll.