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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Keegan is married with two children and lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
References
[edit]- ^ "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 women
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games