England’s Richie Teece has been selected to receive the 2024 PBA Steve Nagy Sportsmanship Award by a voting panel of PBA players who competed in over half of 2024 national tour events. This marks the first Nagy award of Teece’s career.

“It’s awesome being recognized by your peers,” Teece said. “There’s way more to life than bowling. I just like to look at it as whenever you are happy, you generally tend to do things in the right way and everything all seems to fit in. That mindset really hit me this year. I tried to be positive no matter the outcome and I feel like it resonated with others.”

The PBA’s sportsmanship award honors Steve Nagy, a PBA Hall of Famer and founding member, who was instrumental to the early success of the PBA. The award has been awarded since 1966, the year of Nagy’s death.