Elaine Hagin has been a member of NWBW/BWAA for 43 years. She has been President of YABA National, President of USA Bowling, First Vice President of WIBC, Secretary and Vice President of IBMH/F and a member of their Board of Trustees from 1994-2010 and currently serves on the Women’s Sports Foundation Advisory Board.

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 Executive; 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. 

 As National Chairman of the Bowlers to Veterans Link (BVL) she has spearheaded the efforts of contributors---the bowlers of America---to raise over 32 million dollars to the 173 Veterans Administration hospitals across the nation. 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.