Corinna Folkins

Corinna Folkins
Personal information
Nationality United States
Born(1918-12-24)24 December 1918
Los Angeles
Died29 January 1998(1998-01-29) (aged 79)
Mission Viejo, California
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubCasta del Sol BC
Medal record
Representing  United States
World Outdoor Bowls Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1977 Worthing triples

Corinna Helen Folkins, née MacDonald (1918–1998), was a United States international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

World Championships

Folkins won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing, in the triples event with Dorothy Bacon and Louise Godfrey.[1][2]

National

Folkins was the 1981 pairs national champion [3] and the Southwest Division American Women's Lawn Bowls Association (AWLBA) president while bowling for the Casta del Sol Bowls Club.[4]

Personal life

She married fellow international bowler Dick Folkins in 1947.

References

  1. ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
  2. ^ "Summer 1987" (PDF). American Lawn Bowls Association. p. 4.
  3. ^ "U.S. National Lawn Bowl Champions" (PDF). Sun City Lawn Bowls.
  4. ^ "Former Presidents". SWAWLBA.


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