Phillis Nolan

Phillis Nolan (10 February 1946 – 16 March 2022) was an Irish lawn bowler.^[2]

Phillis Nolan

Personal information
Nationality	Irish
Born	(1946-02-10)10 February 1946 Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Died	16 March 2022(2022-03-16) (aged 76)[1] Dublin, Ireland
Sport
Club	Bray BC (1972-77) Blackrock BC (1978-)
Medal record Representing combined Ireland World Outdoor Bowls Championships 1988 Auckland pairs 1992 Ayr pairs 1996 Leamington Spa pairs Atlantic Bowls Championships 1993 Florida pairs 1995 Durban singles 1995 Durban pairs 1997 Llandrindod Wells pairs British Isles Championships 1992 singles 1993 singles 1995 fours 1996 fours 2005 singles

Bowls career

World Outdoor Championship

Nolan partnered Margaret Johnston in a very successful pairs team and they won three consecutive World Outdoor Bowls Championships gold medals.^[3] The three world titles came at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.

Atlantic Championships

In 1993, she won the pairs gold medal with Barbara Cameron at the inaugural Atlantic Bowls Championships.^[4][5] She went on to win three more medals at the Championships.

British Isles

She also won the British Isles Bowls Championships singles title three times in 1992, 1993 and 2005, a record only bettered by fellow Irish bowler Margaret Johnston^[6]

At the Irish National Bowls Championships bowling for the Blackrock Bowls Club, she won the singles title six times (1989, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2004, 2007), the pairs in 1983, 1992, 1996, 2005^[7] the triples in 1986 & 2014 and the fours in 1979, 1994, 1995 and 2000.^[8]

Family

Her son John Nolan was the 1991 singles champion at the Irish National Bowls Championships.^[9]