{"id":378527,"date":"2026-04-14T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:14:10","slug":"commonwealth-games-bowls-team-named-for-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378527\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games: Bowls team named for Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEvery Games has given me a new experience, and this one will be no different,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shortened format has made me excited about the opportunity to represent the New Zealand team again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our Olympics, so I look forward to the challenge ahead and hopefully, with strong performances, we can bring home some medals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games bowls and para bowls competition will take place from July 24 to August 2.<\/p>\n

New Zealand lawn bowls team<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s singles: Tayla Bruce<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s pair: Katelyn Inch, Selina Goddard<\/p>\n

(Reserve: Women\u2019s singles, Selina Goddard)<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s singles: Shannon McIlroy<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s pair: Ali Forsyth, Tony Grantham<\/p>\n

(Reserves: Men\u2019s singles: Ali Forsyth, Men\u2019s pair, Shannon McIlroy for Tony Grantham only)<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Para pair (B6-B8): Teri Blackbourn, Julie O\u2019Connell<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s Para pair (B6-B8): Mark Noble, Kurt Smith<\/p>\n

Mixed Para pair (B2-B3)*: Kerrin Wheeler, Sonya Woodrow and their directors Colin Wheeler and Kimberly Carraher.<\/p>\n

* Conditional on confirmation of international classification for both athletes by International Bowls for the Disabled, with a confirmed sport class status or review with a fixed review date of 2027 or later.<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery Games has given me a new experience, and this one will be no different,\u201d he said. \u201cThe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16669,85412,51038,1888,2082,6489,33611,85414,5812,10136,111,139,69,58423,213,7187,1961,1530,80],"class_list":["post-378527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athletes","tag-bowls","tag-commonwealth","tag-first","tag-for","tag-games","tag-glasgow","tag-lawn","tag-make","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-selected","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-this","tag-years","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}