Jamie Walker has been named as the Bowls England Male Bowler of the Year.
The 21-year-old from Abington, who is a member of Northampton West End BC, was presented with the award by the retiring Bowls England president, the county’s Stuart Lake, at the annual presentation dinner in Coventry.
It was 2012 that was specifically under review - the outdoor season - and this year saw Walker win the County Singles title and the County Under-25 Singles title and he was skip of the County Fours winning team.
As a result he qualified for the National Championships held at Beach House Park, Worthing, and during those championships he became runner-up in the National Under-25 Singles Championship, having won it the previous year, and he was a semi-finalist in the National Champion of Champions and also semi-finalist in the National Singles competition.
If that was not enough, he was also a very valuable member of the 2012 England Junior International team, having been capped for the first time in 2010. Finally, in 2012 he was a valuable member of the Northamptonshire ‘Middleton Cup’ team.
Walker had been one of the players being considered for the Young Male Bowler of the Year, but that award went to Tom Bishop of Hampshire.
On the evening, Lake also presented the trophies to the National winners, runners-up and the Singles semi-finalists, and the County featured heavily in those presentations.
Firstly, Callum Height (Thrapston BC) was presented with his award for being a semi-finalist in the National Under-25 Singles, followed by Walker reaching the last four of the National Champion of Champions and for being runner-up in the National Under-25 Singles. The Fours Cup was presented to Wellingborough IBC’s Mark Corbyn, Darren Lyman, Neil Corbyn and Paul Broderick.
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