Elaine has been a prominent member of NWBW, BWAA, CWBA and USBC for a number of years. She began bowling at 11 and is still rolling the ball at the lanes near her home in Castro Valley. She has been President of YABA National, President of USA Bowling, First Vice President and other board positions on WIBC, Secretary and Vice President of IBMH/F and a member of their board of trustees from 1994 to 2011 and currently serves on the Women’s Sports Foundation Advisory Board. In those capacities she did reporting on all committees she chaired in print and television in addition to writing for various publications.

Her honors include recognition in the WIBC/USBC Hall of Fame, California WBA Hall of Fame and Alameda County WBA Hall of Fame. She was named in 1998 to Street and Smith’s Super 50 Women’s Sports Executives, to Strathmore’s Who’s Who 1998-1999 and was recipient in 1999 of the Women’s Sports Foundation President’s Award acknowledged for contributions toward the development of women’s sports and to the WSF. She was also honored with the NWBW Jo Ettien Lieber, Mary Janetto and AMF Helen Duval Awards and is a NWBW Member Emerita.

As National Chairman of the Bowlers to Veterans Link (BVL), she spearheaded the efforts of contributors—the bowlers of America—to raise over 32 million dollars to the 172 U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals across the nation.

She received the Gordon Tiegen Award for Distinguished Service to Collegiate Bowling, the Remo Picchetti Humanitarian Award in 2002 and the Flowers for the Living Award in 2009. Elaine is an active proponent of bowling’s Olympic effort through involvement in the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs and the World Tenpin Bowling Association receiving the FIQ Silver Pin Award in 1999.

Elaine is a Charter Member of the California Bowling Writers.