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sport for older people, she initiated the Welsh over 60’s Mixed Pairs
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Keen to promote the sustainability of the sport, in the 2000s King set up and organised the annual Welsh Ladies Junior
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Although an accomplished bowler in her own right, King's main contribution to the sport has been as an administrator. Starting as
Secretary of Treherbert Ladies Outdoor Club (1976–94), she became Secretary of Glamorgan County Bowls Association (1980–85) and soon became Secretary of Rhondda Indoor
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Bowls (1982–84) while simultaneously
National Tournament Secretary (1982–85). In 1985 she became Secretary of the Welsh Ladies Indoor Bowling Association, a post she still holds. She was in addition, the Secretary of British Isles Women’s Indoor Bowls Council (2000–03).
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