Corinna Folkins
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| Nationality |  United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 December 1918 Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 January 1998 (aged 79) Mission Viejo, California | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Casta del Sol BC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Corinna Helen Folkins, née MacDonald (1918–1998), was a United States international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
[edit]World Championships
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]She married fellow international bowler Dick Folkins in 1947.
References
[edit]- ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ^ "Summer 1987" (PDF). American Lawn Bowls Association. p. 4.
- ^ "U.S. National Lawn Bowl Champions" (PDF). Sun City Lawn Bowls.
- ^ "Former Presidents". SWAWLBA.
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