Senga McCrone
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| Born | 11 June 1934 Kilmarnock, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 November 2020 (aged 86) Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Lisnagarvey BC Buccleuch BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Senga McCrone (1934–2020) was a Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]In 1971 as a member of the Lisnagarvey Club she won the 1971 Irish National Bowls Championships fours title. The success meant qualification for the British Isles Bowls Championships and subsequently she won the fours title in 1972.[2]
She won a silver medal in the singles at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, becoming the first Scottish woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal in bowls.[3] Six years later she won a gold medal in the fours at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[4]
McCrone also competed in the singles competition at the 1990 Commonwealth Games but pulled out of the 1994 Commonwealth Games following a dispute over her position in the fours team.
In 1993 she won the fours gold medal at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships.[5][6]
Personal life
[edit]Senga grew up in Hurlford, East Ayrshire before moving to Northern Ireland in her thirties. It was during this time that she began bowling for the Lisnagarvey Bowling Club near Belfast.[2] In later life she lived in Hawick with her husband Jimmy and they had two sons. She died on 29 November 2020 at the Borders General Hospital.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ a b c "Senga McCrone Obituary". Bowls Scotland. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Lawn Bowls Steps into Sport Focus". Team Scotland. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ "'Shaw strikes gold'". The Times. 25 October 1993. p. 28. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "'Guernsey finally falter". The Times. 1 November 1993. p. 21. Retrieved 25 May 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- Scottish female bowls players
- 1934 births
- 2020 deaths
- Bowls World Champions
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland
- Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- People from Hurlford
- Sportspeople from East Ayrshire
- Sportspeople from Kilmarnock
- 20th-century Scottish sportswomen