Alison Merrien


Alison Jayne Merrien MBE is an indoor bowls player from Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.

Bowls career

Indoors

Merrien won double gold in the women's singles defeating Karen Murphy and the mixed pairs with Simon Skelton the 2011 World Indoor Bowls Championship. She won a third medal eight years later in 2019 losing out to Julie Forrest of Scotland in the final.
In the southern hemisphere equivalent the World Cup Singles she has won two titles in 2008 and 2012 and has finished runner up on three more occasions.
In addition she has claimed three IIBC singles titles in 2009, 2011 & 2015 and the mixed pairs Championship in 2001 and 2004.
Nationally she has won the British Isles Indoor Women's Singles Championship in 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2015 and the British Isles Indoor Women's Pairs Championship in 2015

Outdoors

By virtue of winning her national title she qualified to represent Guernsey at the World Singles Champion of Champions in 2007 where she defeated Siti Zalina Ahmad in the final to win the gold medal.

Awards

Merrien was awarded an MBE for services to bowls in the 2012 New Year Honours list. and is married to Ian who is also a successful bowls player.