Rebecca Field (bowls)

Indoors

Field plays and competes for the Norfolk Bowling Club in Norwich.^[6] She competed as a junior (U25) international player for several years^[6] and won multiple titles. Amongst her accomplishments as a junior, is being a two-time English and British Isles indoor singles champion.

Field first competed for the England senior ladies team at indoor level in 2011,^[6] when she was named in the squad for the BIWIBC International Series.^[7] Field competed at her first World Indoor Championships in 2012 in the ladies singles event.^[2] Organisers invited Field to the competition after being impressed with her recent rise in the sport.^[2]

Field reached her first World Indoor Bowls ladies singles final in 2013, defeating Alison Merrien in a tie-break set^[8] becoming the youngest ever winner of the event at 23.^[4] The victory gained Field a wild card entry into the WBT International Open and direct qualification for the World Indoor Championships in 2014,^[1] where she was beaten by 18-year-old Katherine Rednall in the final.^[9]

Field was twice runner-up in the 2016 World Indoor Bowls Championship and 2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing to Ellen Falkner and Katherine Rednall respectively.^[10][11]

Outdoors

Field won her first outdoor titles, winning the ladies two-wood singles and junior pairs events at the National Championships in 2014.^[12][13] She first competed for the England senior ladies team at outdoor level in 2015, when she was named in the squad for BWIBC International Series.^[14] Also at outdoor level in 2015, Field was selected to represent England at the European Team Championships and Atlantic Rim Games.^[15] She won gold in the ladies pairs, mixed fours and team events at the European Team Championships.^[16]

In 2018, she finished runner-up to Amy Gowshall in the National Two Wood Singles.^[17] Five years later, she won another national title at the 2023 Bowls England National Finals, partnering her husband Wayne in the mixed pairs.^[18]