EUROA Bowls Club is on a mission to find Euroa’s champion junior lawn bowler. “I've always said it's a young person's game that old people can still play,” club member Bill Sargood said. “This year, the Kyabram Bowls Club champion was 16 years of age.” On Wednesday last week, the club held the first of three coaching and competition sessions for players under 18. Mr Sargood said the idea came after he was impressed by the participation of young people at the Business House Bowls tournament earlier this year, in which teams of amateur players competed on behalf of local businesses. “I thought to continue on with that, we had a chance to run a competition to perhaps encourage them to get a bit more serious about it,” he said. “There are more and more young kids playing [lawn bowls] now.” Imogen Baker, a 13-year-old Euroa Secondary College student, joined the junior bowls session last week. “I quite liked doing six weeks with all the adults [in the Business House Bowls tournament],” she said. “As I’ve started to learn, it's gotten easier and more enjoyable.” She said lawn bowls is “100 percent” a sport young people can play. “It’s not just for old people – it’s quite fun for young people,” she said.
