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, Hawick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Senga McCrone (11 June 1934 – 29 November 2020) was a Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Biography
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 for the combined Ireland team.[2]
McCrone represented the Scottish team[3] at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,[4] and won a silver medal in the singles, becoming the first Scottish woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal in bowls.[5]
McCrone represented the Scottish team[6] at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[7][8] where she competed in the singles event.[9] At the time of the Games she was a bookkeeper.[6]
She won a gold medal in the fours at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing[10] but pulled out of the 1994 Commonwealth Games team, following a dispute over her position in the fours team.
In 1993 she won the fours gold medal at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships.[11][12]
Personal life
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Wells picked for Games team". Dundee Courier. 24 June 1986. p. 12. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Scotland Edinburgh 1986". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Lawn Bowls Steps into Sport Focus". Team Scotland. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
AEEwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Pan Books Ltd. pp. 39–46. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Scotland Auckland 1990". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
- ^ "Bruces's golden shot". Aberdeen Evening Express. 2 February 1990. p. 1. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "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.