Ellen Cawker

Ellen Cawker is a South African lawn bowler and national team manager who has retired from international competition. She was born in 1946 in Perth, Scotland, and emigrated to Rhodesia in 1956. At the 1999 Atlantic Bowls Championships she won the fours gold medal with Trish Steyn, Hester Bekker and Lorna Trigwell, and in 2002 she took silver in the women's pairs with Jill Hackland at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. As a player and as a manager she has won medals at the Commonwealth Games, the World Bowls Championships, the African States Championships and the Atlantic Rim Championships. After leaving international play she served as South Africa team manager until 2007, and at national level she has won the singles, mixed pairs, fours, Senior Inter-Districts and Senior Masters, as well as the 2010 fours bowling for Margate Bowls Club.