"bowling athlete who has consistently shown grace on and off the lanes by promoting the sport of bowling in a positive manner." PWBA Tour relaunch Following the rebirth of the PWBA Tour in 2015, Kulick won the title at the PWBA Fountain Valley Open (Fountain Valley, CA) on May 23, 2017. With her previous women's major wins being counted as PWBA titles, Kulick was credited with her sixth PWBA Tour championship. Kulick finished runner-up to Shannon O'Keefe in the final major of the 2017 season (The Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship), while also finishing runner-up to Liz Johnson in PWBA Player of the Year points. She also finished runner-up in the last two majors of the 2018 season, the PWBA Players Championship and PWBA Tour Championship. On June 5, 2021 Kulick won the PWBA Albany Open for her seventh PWBA Tour title and 12th professional title overall. Kelly Kulick's professional titles Major tournaments in bold type. 2003 U.S. Women's Open 2007 USBC Queens 2008 PBA Ladies and Legends (doubles title with Robert Harvey; PBA Senior Tour event) 2009 PBA Women's Series Shark Championship 2009 PBA Women's World Championship 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions 2010 USBC Queens 2010 U.S. Women's Open 2011 Singapore International Open 2012 U.S. Women's Open 2017 PWBA Fountain Valley Open 2021 PWBA Albany Open In the media Kelly Kulick was featured as a supporting character in Spider-Man's cast, as friend and former girlfriend of Flash Thompson, starting with Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #20. She was written into the comic after bowling a pro-am event with the daughter of one of the Spider-Man writers. Her main goal was to have an actual role in the movie, such as Parker's girlfriend. However, it did not happen due to Kulick's objection to a wet-shirt make out scene in Spiderman. Kulick has also endorsed several clothing lines, including many bathing suit lines, following her win at the Tournament of Champions. Kulick posed nude (with strategically placed shadows) for ESPN The Magazine's annual "Bodies We Want" issue in October, 2011. The issue featured Kulick along with 19 other professional athletes, both male and female. Kulick is the first bowler to ever appear in this issue. Kulick appears in an ESPN Bridgestone commercial, also including sports reporter Michelle Beadle, in which she rolls a bowling ball made of special rubber down a long lane through three separate sets of ten pins, knocking down all of