Julie Keegan
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 July 1964 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Julie Keegan is a female Australian international lawn bowls player.
Bowls career
In 2008, she won the gold medal in the fours and silver medal in the triples at the 2008 World Championships. Two years later she won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the Women's triples event.[1]
In addition she has won three medals at Asia Pacific Championships. In 2007 a triples silver and fours bronze and in 2009 a triples silver. Keegan had played in over 100 test matches for Australia.[2] Keegan has won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title twice, twice (with Kelsey Cottrell) in 2009 and 2010.[3]
In 2019 she won the Australian National Bowls Championships pairs with Katelyn Inch.[4]
Awards
In 2011 she was one of two finalists for Bowls Australia’s female bowler of the year,[5] and in 2010 she was nominated for Hyundai Queensland Sportswoman of the year award.[6]
Personal life
Keegan is married with two children and lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
References
- ^ "Our representatives". Bowls Australia. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Julie Keegan chalks up 100 Tests for Australia in lawn bowls". The Courier-Mail. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "HK Classic winners Women's pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ "2019 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: QUEENSLAND CLEAN SWEEP THE PAIRS FIELD". Bowls Australia. 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Keegan up for top honour | Sunshine Coast Bowls | Lawn Bowls in Sunshine Coast". Sunshine Coast Daily. 29 January 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "'Hyundai Queensland Sportswoman of the Year Awards 2010'". Sportzscene.com.au. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Australian female bowls players
- People from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Bowls World Champions
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen