Stanley Chaya Jr. has enjoyed outstanding success at the local, state, and national levels since the middle 1990’s.  In 1995, he finished in 14th place in the Doubles Event at the ABC National Open Tournament in Reno with doubles partner Blair Kappes.  A year later, Chaya teamed with Tami Eiswerth to win the Mixed Doubles Event in the PSBA State Mixed Tournament.  Teaming with Wilbur Betts, he won the PSBA State Doubles Championship in 2013.  Chaya’s record in the County Association Tournament includes two team championships (1986 and 2016), and three doubles championships (2005, 2015 and 2016).

Known as Joey around the local leagues, Chaya achieved his career high seasonal average of 230 during the 1998-99 season when he finished with the seventh highest average in the county.  For seven straight seasons between 1995 and 2001, Joey turned in a seasonal average which placed him among the top 10 bowlers in the local association, including a fourth-place finish in 1996-97 with a 225 average.  At last count, Joey has rolled ten 800 series including his career high 835 bowled in 1998, and twenty 300 games, including one in the State tournament and at least one in the County tournament.

Joey started his bowling career at the age of about 5, when his father took him out to the Moose Lanes to teach him the fundamentals.   After bowling in the local junior bowling program in High School, Chaya entered the military in the late 1980’s and went on to graduate from Vincennes University in Indiana in 1991, with a degree in Lane Management.

Chaya bowled in as many as nine different leagues in at least one season in the mid 1990’s.  One of the few bowlers who bowled in as many as three different houses after the mid 1990’s, Joey recorded a composite average of 222 in 3 different houses during the 2000-01 season, the highest compost average in the county that year.