| DATE | NAME |
| 2012 | Amleto Monacelli |
| 2011 | Ricky Beck |
| 2010 | Walter Ray Williams Jr. |
| 2009 | Brian Voss |
| 2008 | Wayne Webb |
| 2007 | Sam Zurich |
| 2006 | Bob Kelly |
| 2005 | Tom Baker |
| 2004 | David Ozio |
| 2003 | Don Sylvia |
| 2002 | Vince Mazzanti Jr. |
| 2001 | Mark Roth |
| 2000 | Guppy Troup |
| 1999 | Mike Pullin |
| 1998 | Johnny Petraglia |
| 1997 | George Pappas |
| 1996 | Dale Eagle |
| 1995 | Pete Couture |
| 1994 | Larry Laub |
Amleto Monacelli Elected PBA Senior Rookie of the Year
Professional Bowlers Association Hall of Famer Amleto Monacelli, a two-time Player of the Year on the PBA Tour, was selected as the 2012 PBA Senior Rookie of the Year, becoming the first international player to earn the award.
The 51-year-old native of Venezuela also became the first international player to win the Etonic Senior U.S. Open last June when he defeated fellow Hall of Famer and 2012 Senior Player of the Year Walter Ray Williams Jr., 255-247, in the championship match at the Suncoast Bowling Center in Las Vegas.
He also finished third in the United States Bowling Congress Senior Masters and compiled four other top 20 finishes which included a 10th, 11th, 15th and 19th in his six Senior Tour appearances.
“I quickly found that you still have to be bowling at a top level to do well on the Senior Tour,” said Monacelli. “The competition was very tough and I feel fortunate to do as well I did in my first year.”
During his career on the PBA Tour, Monacelli won 19 titles and was the first foreign-born player to win PBA Player of the Year earning the honor back-to-back in 1989 and 1990. He is the only foreign-born member of the PBA Hall of Fame and was inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame in 2012.
“One of my first impressions of bowling on the Senior Tour was how fast time has gone by,” he added. “Bowling with some of the guys I bowled against on Tour brought back a lot of memories.”