BOWLS WA REPORTS - REGIONAL BOWLS MANAGERS It has certainly been pathways or the another challenging community, but all year for our Clubs. are well managed Once again, COVID has and continue to work tested our resolve, our hard recruiting new agility and our patience members. as it has reared its head The Volunteer of the again through season Year Award went to 2020/21. But we have Graeme Jacques from come through – our Maylands this year, wonderful volunteers Clive Adams Steven Unsworth while Club Coach of and staff at our Clubs the Year went the way of Geoff Stevenson from have been outstanding, and we were blessed with was a relatively uninterrupted season of Joondalup. Both have exhibited tireless efforts in representing their clubs to make our sport bowls. and their club better for it. It isn’t to say there weren’t challenges. In the areas closest to Perth, we played two pennant Congratulations and thank you to all our club matches with masks on, and outside of Perth we volunteers. Whether you do one small thing, had cyclones and other weather phenomena or you are at your club every day, you are appreciated and the things you do make the that certainly tested even the best of us. load a little lighter for everyone else. You are Congratulations to everyone for the way we the lifeblood of our clubs. have come through this, and we have fingers crossed that the 2021/22 season will finally see BOWLS AUSTRALIA PROGRAMS us return to some normality. We have once again seen some great programs offered by Bowls Australia. The Jack Attack Lite OUR AWARD WINNERS program was offered to clubs to run programs We know that not every club and every in the latter part of 2020 – while some clubs took volunteer can be honored through Bowls WA’s the offer and had great success, we did expect awards, but the sheer number of submissions more would take the opportunity to look at for this year’s awards shows there are some something different at very low risk to the Club. great people out there, doing so much for our Jack Attack Plus provided additional incentives sport. to Clubs that already had a licence and it was There were some deserved award winners at pleasing to see some clubs re-invigorate their the recent Bowls WA Awards Night, starting programs using these incentives. with Joondalup and Mount Lawley as our ROOKIE ROLLERS & SPORTING SCHOOLS respective Metropolitan Club and Small Club of the Year. Boulder and Tammin were awarded Jr Jack Attack was re-branded to Rookie Rollers our Country Club awards, with Tammin taking in an effort to take the wonderful portable the small club award and Boulder the open bowls product to a wider audience. Initially designed for school children to experience award. bowls for the first time, the Rookie Rollers These four clubs are shining examples of what equipment is ideally suited to provide anyone can be achieved through the hard work of our the portable bowls experience, with age really club volunteers. Each has achieved in different having no relevance. areas – some have refurbished club facilities, The Sporting Schools program which sits others have focused on junior development alongside Rookie Rollers continues to be
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