Ian Schuback

Ian David Schuback, known as Shoey, was born on 4 September 1952 and is an Australian former lawn and indoor bowler. He is the only player from outside the United Kingdom to have won the World Indoor Bowls Championship. He bowled for the Coolangatta club in Queensland and was also a professional tennis coach before he started bowling in 1980 after watching the Melbourne World Outdoor Championships. He took a Men's Singles silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, won the 1988 World Indoor Bowls Championship and the 1990 Commonwealth Games pairs title, and later won the 1992 indoor singles and the 1994 and 1996 indoor pairs. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2009 Australia Day Honours and wrote the book Bowls: Unbiased and uncensored.