Noeleen Scott

Noeleen Mollison Scott, born Noeleen Mollison Thomson on 31 October 1926 and died on 5 October 2023, was a New Zealand lawn bowls player. She grew up in Mosgiel and took up bowls after watching her husband Bill, a member of the Cromwell Bowling Club who won the national pairs title in 1964. She rose quickly, finishing second in the singles at the 1965 national championship, winning the national singles title in 1977 and finishing runner-up again in 1981. At the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington she won gold in the triples and the fours, and also in the team event for the Taylor Trophy. She belonged to the Cromwell Bowling Club for almost fifty years until failing eyesight ended her playing career, having won 41 club titles and 17 Central Otago titles. In 2013 she was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.