patrick said:
nathan young - moved from tassie to brisbane after juniors, recently given up bowling league and is doing uni to become an accountant
That's a shame he's given the game away, he could throw the orb pretty well too.
I knew he was studying something at Uni up there and was devoting less and less time to bowling, when I last saw him here a year or so back.
As for some of the others around here from the '95 to '05 era:
Ben & Sam Harriss both quit bowling about a year or two back, not sure what they're up to now - although I caught up with Ben at Brahm Price's 21st last year and he was going pretty well - walked into the pub with a chick on each arm - nothin's changed
Melanie (Mel) Collins quit bowling about a year or so back, I think she's quite high up in one of the store chains here (Chickenfeed or one of those), running some of the operations or something - doing really well anyway.
Anita Brunacci was doing Uni in Hobart last I heard, I last saw her about 10 months back. No longer bowls, but used to pop into the bowl on Thursday nights and say hello to everyone.
Gavin Hawkes quit bowling about 4 years ago, and came back for a short time and quit again, works for an IT firm in Hobart, and last time I saw him, he was playing Gridiron and had bulked up massively.
Hates bowling, will never come back - shame really because he had bucketloads of talent.
Adam Carr quit bowling at the end of 2002, got married about two years ago and they moved down the country somewhere and built a house down there.
They had a little baby girl last year.
He's pretty high up in Tascon Construction around the corner here - 2IC I think - they were based in the UK for awhile there as well but are in back in Hobart now.
Amy Huxley doesn't bowl tournaments very often now, still bowls Centre League at Moonah and the odd tournament here and there, plays hockey a fair bit too now.
Sally Hyland quit bowling years ago and unfortunately had a quite a few troubles down here but happily started a new life up in Queensland and apparently things are good now.
From the era I played in (early 90's), players such as Matty Riley, Hayden George, Mark Foster, Peta Jones and probably Brenda Cox over in WA, Adam "AJ" Johnson resumed bowling after virtually ten years out of the game (and still rolls it sweet), and yours truly still bowl, but the rest have dropped off the face of the earth.
Players like Matt Burtt, Dave & Andrew Robinson, Scott Leary, Nathan Bricknell, Kevin Redmond, Jane Gibbons, Tanya Prestage (quit a couple of years ago), Danielle Firman, Helena Jones, Sarah Huxley (lives in Melbourne), Allison Burtt (married some guy and lives in Adelaide).
Geez a lotta people have quit the game