Marlene Castle

Marlene Robyn Castle, born on 13 March 1944, is a lawn and indoor bowls international for New Zealand. A veteran of four Commonwealth Games, she won her first medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games with a silver in the women's fours, followed by a bronze in the women's fours in 1994 and a bronze in the women's singles at the 2002 Games. She has won twelve medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, five of them gold, and took the 2001 pairs title and the 1999 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships while bowling for the Orewa Bowls Club. She received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal and in 2013 was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame. Her husband Bruce Castle is a former New Zealand Kiwis captain, and her daughter Raelene Castle is a sports administrator.