Bowls Alberta

10/27/2025

It is safe to say that Albertan bowlers continued to show their dominance in bowls in Canada with us taking half of the medals at the World Indoor Qualifier including both the female and male gold medals! Congratulations on making the podium Joanna, Jan, and Pat!

Women's Medal Winners:
🥇 : Joanna Cooper (AB)
🥈 : Linda Ng (BC)
🥉 : Jan Robinson (AB)

Men's Medal Winners:
🥇 : Pat Bird (AB)
🥈 : Mike McNorton (ON)
🥉 : Alan Wass (BC)

Wishing the best of luck to Canada's GOAT bowls power couple of Joanna Cooper & Pat Bird who will represent Canada at the 2026 World Bowls Indoor Championship in Australia in spring 2026!

10/25/2025

Alberta players continuing their strong performance in competitions this year with 3 of our 4 provincial representatives making it to the semifinals of the Canadian Indoor Qualifiers. Unfortunately in the women's division only one of our two will make gold since Jan and Joanna are playing each other now in the semis.

The current game being streamed is the men's semi between Ontario and BC, but you can see the scoreboard and some of the heads from Pat Bird's game against Saskatchewan. Pat won the first set and is currently trailing behind Saskatchewan in the second set.

Bowls Alberta is proud of all of you for representing us so well at the indoors - it's a treat to play on that surface and always a tough adjustment when there's no surface like it to play on anywhere else in Canada!

09/21/2025

Players who qualified in the Provincial Indoor* Singles for knockout rounds are warming up for their games! Here are the matches:

1 vs 2 (winner gets bye to gold medal match)
Women - Joanna Cooper vs Kiera Schaelow
Men - Pat Bird vs Nathan Findlay

3 vs 4 (winner plays loser of 1 vs 2)
Women - Jan Robinson vs Patti Lewis
Men - Scott Packer vs Jake House

Here's the link to the the preliminary rounds results:

Men - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s809KUK2IyB3hC5Nd5I0rl968k3d84NSDKWl6hFEqhI/edit?usp=sharing

Women - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/147fGBtq1V5Vo5c97MrMHHJ3G-bfOS6w_xSb1V0ilgHo/edit?usp=sharing

*Our indoor provincials are hosted outdoors due to no indoor facilities in Alberta that meet green specifications outlined in the Laws of the Sport.

09/15/2025

Congratulations to both Joanna Cooper for winning the Gold and Pat Bird for winning the Bronze in the singles tournament at the 2025 Pacific Coast Open. Additionally, congratulations to Pat Bird for winning the Gold in the mixed pairs with his partner Serena Matthews.

09/15/2025

It's National Coach Week! One NCCP course is offered for free each day this week. Take advantage...these are short courses easily finished in one sitting. Other NCCP courses are offered at discounts but you need to register for them.
Secondly, thank you coaches! Let them know you appreciate their efforts to develop and support players at your clubs.

Each year, thousands of people across Canada take part in National Coaches Week to say for their time, effort, and generosity.

09/12/2025

The 2025 Provincial Seniors Tournament was held this week at the Commonwealth Lawn Bowling Club. 8 men's teams representing the three Edmonton outdoor clubs and the Calgary Lawn Bowling Club played five preliminary games and then all entered the playoff and consolation rounds. 5 women's teams with players from the three Edmonton clubs and 1 team from Calgary Lawn Bowling Club squared off in a full round robin followed by the playoffs and 1 consolation round. Not only were medals and the top trophy being competed for but cash prizes as well donated by the Host Committee of the 2023 Canadian Senior Triples Championship. This was an extra perk and thank you to the many seniors that volunteers for the Canadian Championship!
Big thank you to the Commonwealth club for great greens and great hospitality which included a barbecue supper together on the Wednesday evening.
The final standings for the Women's division:
Gold: Hatton Team from Calgary Lawn
Silver: Spencer Team from Highlands
Bronze: Ross-Watson Team from Commonwealth & Royal
Consolation: Ranger Team from Commonwealth
Final standings for the Men's division:
Gold: Olsvik team from Calgary Lawn
Silver: Ranger team from Commonwealth
Bronze: Spencer team from Highlands
Consolation: Rawson team from Royal

Notable achievement from the Hatton and Olsvik teams...all players from Calgary Lawn Bowling Club, the teams repeated winning overall for a second year in a row! Congratulations to the players for this accomplishment. Rumor is that they will be defending their titles again in 2026.

09/10/2025

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09/08/2025

The AB Northern Novice Pairs tournament was held this weekend at the beautiful Royal Lawn Bowling Club. Seven pairs teams squared away learning lots about the energy level needed to play more than two games in a day, learning and accepting advice from the umpire including rules around possession of the rink, learning about tie-break rules and tournament Conditions of Play, and as always, getting to know and appreciate novice members of other clubs! A huge thank you to Royal for doing a great job hosting the tournament.

Results:
Gold: Terry Epp and Mohammad Kiani
Silver: Paul Thompson and Blair Whitman
Bronze: Ken Mutlow and Janet Mutlow

Congratulations to all the players for a fantastic two days of great competition and camaraderie!

09/05/2025

Ah ha you need to watch this! What style, what stance....

08/25/2025

Huge congratulations to the full Alberta Team and their demonstrated prowess at the Nationals. 2025 was outstanding!

Also a huge, huge, HUGE thanks to Commonwealth Lawn Bowling Club and all volunteers from across Edmonton, Alberta, and other provinces that helped for this event to be run as smoothly as it could. We hope the success of this Nationals as well as the Youth/Junior one motivates other clubs to consider hosting in future years!