BOWLS WA REPORTS - COUNTRY
This will be my last Annual Report as I won’t be renominating for a position on the Bowls WA Board.
When Covid 19 came along in 2020 it disrupted our bowling calendar. Everyone Ross Warburton was affected and it was very pleasing to see that every club managed to follow Government Regulations and now we find ourselves at the other end of the Pandemic. THANK YOU’S I appreciated the support the late Presidents, Graham Leeks and Larry Bandy gave me as Country Director while I was on the board.
were completed for the first time in two years. It was a three way tie in both the Men’s and Women’s Champion Club award this year and I congratulate those clubs on achieving that award. Congratulations to Mathew France on winning the Men’s singles and Kathy Gobbart on winning the Women’s singles. At the Annual Awards Night held at the Royal Perth Golf Club, Kathy also took out the Penny Needham Ladies Country Bowler of the year. Congratulations also to Matt Mitchell on winning the Vice Patrons Medal for the Male Country Bowler of the year.
REGIONAL BOWLS MANAGER’S The Regional Bowls Managers employed by Bowls Australia provide tremendous support to our clubs and in particular the country areas where they often make long trips to help provide advice and assistance.
I would like to thank Clive Adams for the work To Kerry Andersen who took the chair after he is putting into the bowling fraternity. He not Graham’s passing, thank you for your support. only is Regional Manager for our clubs north of To Doug Kelly, I wish you all the best in the Perth to Geraldton out to Kalgoorlie, he is the future and thank you for the support you have voice that we hear on most live streaming games. For the two weeks of the Australian Open he had given me. the microphones on. He was also our MC at the For the six years that I have been on the Board annual awards night held on Friday 3rd of June at there have been many changes. The strategic the Royal Perth Golf Club and then had to catch a plans that I have been involved in have seen plane later on that night for live streaming duties the move to open gender bowls which I over east the next day. A big thank you to Steven think will be the normal in a few years’ time. Unsworth who serviced clubs in the South and In my first year, the capitation model came South West of Western Australia before his recent under review. The Bowls Connect system was retirement. To Troy Kinnane, who has taken over as our new Southern Regional Manager I wish created and after two years the company that him all the best.
set it up withdrew their services. We now have the Bowls Link system which I think everyone To Ken Pride and the staff in the office I thank is understanding a lot better. I would like to you for your support over the six years and thank Aaron Delaporte for the work he has wish you all the best in the future. put into getting the system up and running. COUNTRY EVENTS & AWARDS Congratulations to the Eastern Zone on winning both the Men’s and Women’s IZRR fours this year.
ROSS WARBURTON
Both Men’s and Women’s Country Weeks COUNTRY DIRECTOR
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