François Lavoie

Amateur career Lavoie won the 2013 World Bowling Championships trios gold medal (partners: Mark Buffa and Patrick Girard).

Lavoie was a four-time member of Youth Team Canada, and has been a four-time member of adult Team Canada.

Professional bowling career Lavoie joined the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) in 2015.

On October 30, 2019, Lavoie won his fourth title and second major, again in the U.S. Open.

On February 28, 2021, Lavoie won his fifth PBA Tour title and third major at the Kia PBA Tournament of Champions. Lavoie climbed from the No. 5 seed in the stepladder final, beating a PBA major champion in all four of his matches to take the title and $100,000 top prize. On April 18, 2021, Lavoie won the Guaranteed Rate PBA Super Slam, a special non-title event featuring the five winners of the 2021 major championships. He defeated PBA Players Championship winner Kyle Troup in the final match to earn his second $100,000 first place check of the season. Lavoie qualified as the #4 seed at the 2021 PBA Tour Playoffs and made it to the semifinal round before being eliminated by top seed Kyle Troup. Lavoie finished runner-up to Troup in the 2021 Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year voting.

Through the 2025 season, Lavoie's PBA earnings total over US$890,000, with $375,145 of that coming in the 2021 season alone.

He has rolled multiple 300 games in PBA competition. Among these perfect games, Lavoie recorded the PBA's 26th televised 300 game in the semifinal match of the 2016 U.S. Open against Shawn Maldonado, who scored 211. This was just the sixth televised perfect game in a major tournament, and the first ever in the U.S. Open finals. in the Round of 16 at the 2020 PBA Tour Playoffs, becoming the second bowler in PBA history to roll two televised 300 games in an official PBA Tour event (the first being Sean Rash, whom Lavoie coincidentally defeated in this PBA Playoffs match).

On August 3, 2024, Lavoie earned his sixth PBA Tour title at the PBA/PBA50/PWBA Jonesboro Trios, with partners Tom Hess and Breanna Clemmer. This was the first-ever mixed trios event to award titles to PBA, PBA50 and PWBA players.

Lavoie currently holds the PBA record for a six-game qualifying block. On April 1, 2026 at the PBA Ohio Classic, he rolled games of 290, 226, 300, 299, 299 and 277 for a 1,691 total (281.83 average). This shattered the previous record of 1635, which stood untouched for over 3 decades, and was set by Norm Duke in 1994, when Lavoie was just 11 months old, and matched by Dave Wodka in 1998.

PBA Tour wins Major titles in bold type.

2016 U.S. Open (Las Vegas, Nevada) (Followed Mika Koivuniemi as the second international player to win the U.S. Open.) 2021 PBA Tournament of Champions (Jupiter, Florida) 2024 PBA/PBA50/PWBA Jonesboro Trios w/Tom Hess and Breanna Clemmer (Jonesboro, Arkansas)

Non-title wins 2021 PBA Super Slam Cup 2025 PBA Elite League Battle of the Brands Championship (member of champions Team Storm)

Lavoie also owns 13 PBA Regional titles, and he won the (non-title) PBA Regional Challenge at the 2017 PBA World Series of Bowling in Reno, NV. He was the 2016 Southwest Region Rookie of the Year and 2018 Southwest Region Player of the Year.