Just 16-years-old, Holy Trinity’s Brittany Camp has big plans for her future, and hopes to one day be a member of the Australian under 25s bowls team.
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Camp is already a veteran in the sport, having played since age 10; and has spent her school holidays representing NSW at the Australian under 18s championships, and Country in the under 18s and under 25s City vs Country championships.
“I started at just a charity fun day and an elderly person came up and was like ‘you’re really good at this, and I was like ‘oh, am I?’, I didn’t really know,” she said. Starting out with social games at her home club in Glen Innes, it wasn’t long before Camp was playing in Armidale almost every weekend.
“My next goal is playing for the NSW under 25s,” she said.
Camp kicked off October with two days of hard competition playing for NSW at the under 18 championships. NSW came first in the ladder for triple and took on WA to come home with a gold medal, finishing third overall.
Camp followed this up with a strong performance in Cabramatta on October 20-21 for the City vs Country Championship Under 18s.
“I played a singles game against one of my NSW team mates. It was a really great game, very high quality. The selector actually said it was the best game she’s probably seen in a long time,” she said.
Playing the strategic ‘skip’ role for her pairs and four-person teams, Camp helped both win their games. It was a step up for Camp, who had spent last year playing lead in the nationals. She said the skip was where she felt most comfortable.
“My role is if we’re down a high amount of numbers to reduce it to only being one or two, or if we’re holding some shots to get some more shots - so basically to help the team out or back them up if they weren’t able to get there,” she said.
Not done yet, on November 3-4, Camp played for Country in the Soldier’s Point City vs Country under 25s championships.
While she didn’t come home with any wins, Camp valued the learning experience.
“Because the over 60s and the opens played next to us, I also got to see how they played,” she said.
“It was a really big learning curve.”