Precision, patience and teamwork: What bowling taught Dr. Bryce Ingram
Balanced Beings: Our lives outside work
The Balanced Beings series features Main Line Health employees' passions, hobbies and interests outside of day-to-day work.
Bryce Ingram, MD, pediatric hospitalist at Bryn Mawr Hospital, joined Main Line Health this fall after more than six years as a trainee and attending physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), our pediatric partner. Dr. Ingram brings a thoughtful, compassionate approach to his work and is a valued addition to the Main Line Health team.
But outside of the hospital, Dr. Ingram spends his time doing something a little different: competing in a bowling league and regional tournaments.
Family tradition of bowling
Dr. Ingram has been bowling since he was a young child. For him, the sport is more than a hobby — it's a family tradition. His great-grandmother bowled in a league in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, and his mother eventually passed the tradition to Dr. Ingram, introducing him to a sport she thought he might like.
Growing up on Long Island, Dr. Ingram began training with local junior coaches and quickly fell in love with the game. Before long, he was competing in regional tournaments and dedicating more and more time to the game. As a high schooler, Dr. Ingram won the Long Island USBC Junior Masters tournament and placed as a finalist in multiple other regional junior tournaments before going off to attend college at Princeton University.
Life lessons from a lifelong sport
What Dr. Ingram has learned from bowling goes far beyond technique. It's about patience, precision and learning how to respond when things don't go exactly as planned.
"The game taught me so much as a kid — how to be respectful in competition, how to maintain mental discipline, how to win and how to lose gracefully," Dr. Ingram said.
Despite a busy work schedule between his clinical duties at Main Line Health and CHOP, Dr. Ingram still finds time for bowling, traveling to South Jersey weekly to bowl with his team at Bowlero Deptford. The time he invests in the sport is rewarded not only through competition, but through the sense of community and connection it provides. Some of his closest friendships have come through bowling.
"It's not just going up there and throwing a ball at pins," Dr. Ingram said, reflecting on the spirit of the game.
"It's about pivoting and having a quick memory even when things don't go as planned," explains Dr. Ingram.
"You come to realize that means the spares matter just as much, if not more, than the strikes," Dr. Ingram concludes.
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