James Rippey

James Rippey, born in 1977, is a Scottish born international indoor and lawn bowler who has represented both Scotland and England. He won the Scottish national fours title at the age of seventeen, went on to captain the England under-25 outdoor side, and has won English indoor singles, pairs and triples titles. He qualified for the World Indoor Bowls Championships in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024, in singles and pairs in some of those years, and was a regular qualifier for World Bowls Tour events, reaching a ranking as high as seventeenth in the world and standing at twenty-first in 2019. He has also qualified for the PBA Scottish International Open in 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and in 2018 he beat the reigning world champion Mark Dawes in the first round of that event.