Hope for rejected bowls women

Press, 23 April 1986, Page 33

Hope for rejected bowls women

PA Wellington Possible new nominations for the women’s bowls team for the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games will be discussed at a meeting in Wellington today. Three of the seven women bowlers missdd out when the New Zealand team was announced last Tuesday. Since then the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth ’Games

Association has x decided to allow the women bowlers to restate their case. The three to miss were the singles nominee, Ann Katavich (Waitemata), Wellington’s Judy Howat, who had been nominated for the pair, and Margaret Cole (Taranaki) in the four. Instead the selectors named a four, including Joyce Osborne (Manawatu), who was to

have been Howat’s partner, and the rest of the four — Denise Page (Christchurch), Millie Khan (Bay of Plenty) and Rhoda Ryan (Waikato). The association’s executive gave the women bowlers until April 29 to Justify a larger team. In doing so it noted they had limited experience in the process of nominating players for Commonwealth Games

competition. Their first appearance at the Games was in Brisbane in 1982 when they fielded a triple. It Is understood that one of the three Olympic and Commonwealth Games selectors, Mr Bruce Cameron of Auckland, will be present The women’s bowls nominees for Edinburgh were named at the start of the summer, a step which was greeted with

surprise. Most other sports waited until their national championships were over so that current form could be gauged. A decision on whether there will be more women bowlers in the team will probably be announced at the May meeting of the Games’ association’s executive.