Grant Nicol earns Men’s Over 60’s Bowler Award
Bowls WA Awards Night – Trevor Barron Award The winner of the 2016/17 Trevor Barron Award is Osborne Park’s Grant Nicol.
Nicol was this season’s most outstanding Over 60’s player due to his consistency across all four Over 60’s State Events.
Nicol made it to the quarter-final stage in every event this season. He made the quarter finals of the State Triples, Mixed Pairs and the State Singles losing to the eventual winners in both the Singles and the Triples.
Nicol’s main accomplishment was his State Pairs victory with Osborne Park teammate Steve O’Neill. O’Neill and Nicol defeated Dudley Park’s Graham Needs and Bill Savell 17-14 in the competition final. During the competition they also defeated the likes of past Rosenthal Medalist Marko Krajancic and former Australian Pairs winner Reg Humphryson.
In addition to his record in State Events Nicol represented Western Australia at the National Over 60’s Championships in Perth and was part of an Osborne Park side which finished second in this year’s Premier League competition.
Nicol has been a consistent performer in Over 60’s events over the last few years and this isn’t the first time he’s been in contention for the award.
He was very proud to have finally got the award under his belt. “It’s a great honor really,” he said. “I feel very proud to receive this, it’s great.”
Nicol also paid compliment to how difficult it is to win Over 60’s events now. “It is getting bigger and bigger and it’s getting harder and harder to win,” he said. “There’s always some ‘young pups’ coming up.”
Nicol becomes the sixth winner of the award and continues the recent dominance of Trevor Barron’s home club Osborne Park. The Saints have now had three of the last four winners and all four nominees for this year’s award were Osborne Park players.
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