A striking woman.

• Position: SPORTS - Brief article

Kelly Kulick is trading in a job at her father's auto-body shop, where she is the tone woman surrounded by men, for life on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour--where she will also be the lone woman surrounded by men. Kulick, a 29-year-old from Union, N.J., has become the first woman to qualify for the P.B.A. Tour. At the five-day qualifying event in June, she finished sixth out of 140 bowlers and rolled a perfect 300 game. "I do pretty well, against the men, maybe because working at the shop has made me tough," says Kulick, who excelled on the Professional Women's...