Myra Wood is a

lawn bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...

international from the United States.

Biography

Wood began bowling in 1986 and represented the United States from 1994 to 2015. She won a fours

silver medal A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, ...

(with

Janice Bell Janice Bell is a Scottish-born American lawn bowls international. Bowls career World Championship Bell competed at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch and four years later in 2020, was selected for the 2020 World Outdo ...

, Anne Nunes and Candy DeFazio) at the 2015

Asia Pacific Bowls Championships The Asia Pacific Bowls Championships formerly the Pacific Rim Championships was a lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Asia Pacific region. The event was inaugurated in 1985, and it was initially held every t ...

in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2017, she was inducted into the United States Bowls Hall of Fame. This was the same year in which she won the USA National pairs title with Lorriane Hitchcock.

References

Living people American female bowls players Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-sport-bio-stub