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Article from the Maverick's Newletter, Volume III, February 1995
The Mavericks started out, not as a club, but as a group of ladies
going to different tours and tournaments with Charles Towell.
Charles Towell, known as "FLY", found it hard to get bowling partners. Charles Towell bowled almost weekly doing this time with Margaret Black, Barbara Scott, and Roxine Taylor. Shirley Gray and FLY met during league bowling and Marge Patterson later joined the original members so that they could bowl in tournaments and have equal double partners. As they bowled in other tournaments they picked up more ladies so that they could have more teams. They were Eartharine Prophet, Regina Owens, A.J. Timmons, and Sue Brooks. That's when they decided to start a club, the interest was there but they could'nt get it off the ground. They continued to bowl in tournaments and had to be called something. So Regina Owens came up with the MAVERICKS. In 1982, the original five Maverick Ladies, Margaret Black, Barbara Scott, Roxine Taylor, Shirley Wallace, and Marge Patterson won the Virginia State Tournament, and the Ladies Team division of the Hoinke Classic. All of a sudden everyone wanted to be a Mavericks. Some of the men that FLY bowled with wanted to join the club. After further discussion the Mavericks decided to register the club with the recorder of deeds.
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