Janice Maxwell
Scottish lawn bowler
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Janice H. Maxwell (born 1 December 1946) is a former Scottish International and triple World Bowls gold medal winning lawn bowler.[2]
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 December 1946[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Castle Douglas BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bowls career
Watson represented the Scottish team[1] at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[3][4] where she competed in the fours event, with Ann Watson, Joyce Lindores and Annette Evans.[5] At the time of the Games she was an auxiliary nurse.[1]
In 1992 she won a gold medal in both the triples and the fours at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Ayr.[6] She also won a bronze medal in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria with Betty Forsyth, Elizabeth Dickson and Dorothy Barr.[7][8]
In 1993 she won the fours gold medal at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships[9][10] and four years later won a fours bronze at the Championships.[11][12]
She also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1986 bowling for Castle Douglas, beating Annette Evans of Willow Bank BC 21-19 in the final, played at Stewarton BC.[13]
In 2014, Janice set a record for her club by winning her 25th championship for Castle Douglas.[14]