Frank Moore of Beverly Park has been elected to the Greater Seattle Bowling Hall of Fame.

Moore, 65, nominated by Doug Harrell, owner of Magic Lanes in White Center, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in April 2009. He was elected in the category of Meritorious Service.

Moore's service to bowling has been through his work with youth bowling. For many years he has been a director of the Greater Seattle Youth Bowling Association and is currently the vice president of that association.

He is the director of youth tournament bowling and has been since 1988. He has run the youth bowling program at Magic Lanes since 1978. That program routinely fills the 24 lanes at Magic year after year.

Moore regularly spends four days a week coaching plus running the programs on Saturdays, and traveling through the area for tournaments, consultations and assisting youth programs elsewhere. Moore was also elected to the Washington State Bowling proprietors Hall of Fame in 2003. Aside from directing the youth program, he is noted throughout the bowling community as an outstanding coach.

The bowling association noted in his election that when Moore "brings bowlers that he has coached to a tournament, watch out! Those bowlers can flat out bowl."

Moore is a native of Montana and attended the Air Force Academy on a baseball scholarship. He took up bowling after he left the Academy in 1966. In addition to working with youth, he is a fine bowler in his own right with several 300 games to his credit, a 24-year span when he bowled in the National, being a league secretary and bowling in several leagues. Moore emphasizes that the activities with youth go beyond just bowling. An annual picnic is held with some 200 to 300 participating. A scholarship fund is part of the activity, with $20,000 raised at Magic in the last six years. The kids are also involved in fund raising activities for local charitable activities.