Daphne Shaw


Daphne Ann Shaw is a former international lawn bowls competitor for Australia.

Bowls career

Shaw started bowling in 1977 and won the 1979 North Haven Club Championship.
In 1990 she won a gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. In 1991 Daphne won the NSW Champion of Club Champions singles title and won a gold medal in the pairs and a silver in the singles at the Asia Pacific Championship. In 1996 she won the gold medal in the fours and silver medal in the triples at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide.
She was inducted into Bowls NSW Hall of Fame in 2016.

Personal life

Daphne married her husband Colin in 1963 and has been the mentor for Karen Murphy.