US OPEN champion Jordan Spieth, NBA MVP Steph Curry, New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior and Triple Crown winning colt American Pharaoh - it’s a quartet at the very top of their games

And you can add Orange’s Jason Belmonte to the list as well.

Like the aforementioned four, the Professional Bowlers Association two-handed star has been nominated for an ESPY again in 2015.

The ESPYs are American cable channel ESPN’s annual sports awards - the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards, and after winning best bowler in 2011 as a first-time nominee, Belmonte will go up against 2015 Players Championship winner Parker Bohn III and 2014 PBA World Championship winner Mike Fagan in the race for this year’s crown.

“The ESPYs are a fan vote, so it’s nice to see how the fans have seen the last year,” Belmonte said.

There’s 31 categories ESPN honours with its annual awards, and 2015 is the fifth consecutive year Belmonte has been nominated for best bowler.

Belmonte has been nominated for his obvious tenpin feats throughout the last 12 months, having won the 2014 Player of the Year on his way to becoming the first man to win the 2015 USBC Masters and the 2015 Tournament of Champions in back-to-back seasons.

But this year’s ESPYs haven’t been Belmonte’s primary focus of late.

After being invited by the Tokyo Organising Committee (TOC) to nominate as a sport for the 2020 games, an invitation that led Belmonte to champion a petition to get the bowling movement on the front foot, tenpin is now one of eight sports to have been shortlisted for the Tokyo games.

Tenpin will have its inclusion proposed - alongside with the seven others short listed, baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, sports climbing, squash, surfing and martial arts - to the International Olympic Committee in September 2015, with the final decision to be made at the 129th IOC Session in Rio in August, 2016.

“The committee is doing all the right things, and they’re doing a wonderful job,” Belmonte said.

“We’ve made the cut from the original 26 down to eight. We’ve had 10,000 signatures on our petition to be included and I think anything we can do to get the message out there and benefit the sport is a good thing.”

To vote for Belmonte for the ESPY, go to espn.go.com/espys/2015/ and click on his name in the best bowler category.