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Monday, May 7, 2012
BowLinks (April 2012)
BOWLinks (Bowl Over With Love, Inspiration,
Nurturing, Kindness and Sincerity) is a community
project initiated by SingaporeBowling on 1st October 2005 to give assistance to local associations with special needs.
SingaporeBowling is committed to promoting wellness in Singapore through participation in community outreach programmes to generate greater awareness of tenpin bowling as a leisure sport for all segments and this initiative aimed to bring balance and fun to the lives of kids and adults with special needs through the joy of bowling.
Since 2007, SingaporeBowling continues to organizes
a Bi-monthly Challenge for the BOWLinks organizations. This month BowLinks challenge was held on 18th April at the National Service Resort & Country Club.
~Thank you for your continued support~
~See you at our next BowLinks on 27th June @ NSRCC~
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Singapore Sports Awards 2012
The Singapore Sports Awards, chaired
by Deputy Prime Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for National Security and
Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean met on 20th April, where
the 11-strong committee held a secret ballot after picking the finalists for
the various categories.
Singapore Bowling is proud to have
three nominations for the award. Daphne Tan for Sportswoman of the year,
William Woo for Coach of the Year and Team of year, consisting of New hui
Fen, Daphne Tan, Cherie Tan, Geraldine Ng, Jazreel Tan and Shayna Ng.
The results for the awards will be
announced at the presentation ceremony on 29th May 2012 at the
Swissotel The Stamford.
While winners of the various awards
in previous years were announced shortly after the meeting, awards organising
committee chairman Low Teo Ping said “The committee brainstormed and felt
that there were merits to this format” he added “It gives the nominated
athletes and the awards the formality and recognition they deserve (and)
provides an element of mystery that builds up to a crescendo on the awards
night”.
The awards this year are dominated
by swimming (four finalists), sailing, wushu and bowling (three finalists).
(Main story taken from The Newpaper, Saturday, April 21 2012)
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
National Age Group 12 - 15 March 2012
The National Age Group, a national tournament that caters to the youth kegler community as a competitive platform to gain some exposure in a competitive setting and compete for high honours under their respective categories.
This years tournament was especially exciting with high games from bowlers in all categories heating up the competition. High enough that, Ahmad Safwan Shamsudin and Ng Kai Xiang scored a perfect game 300 in their under-15 and under-18 categories respectively. Both bowlers were acknowledged by SBF for their efforts.
Presenting the certificate of acknowledgement on behalf of SBF to the bowlers was, Deputy Head Coach, Francis Yeo to Ng Kai Xiang and Mrs Florence Khemlani to Ahmad Safwan Shamsudin. Congratulations to you both!
Ng Kai Xiang, who is currently on the National Development Sqaud said, "I was just concentrating at taking one shot at a time, ensuring that my first few steps were always right. I was not thinking about achieving the perfect game but I was hoping to keep the form till the end" - Ng Kai Xiang, finished in overall 9th position in the Masters event
1st Position: Gan Ju Yen
2nd Position: Tay Hui Chiang
3rd Position: Shaun Kingston Lau Jia Rong
1st Position: Tracy See Wan Zhen
2nd Position: Joey Yeo Ruo Qi
3rd Position: Kimberly Ooi Jingyi
Under-18 Boys Division Champions
1st Position: Alexander Tan Kee Hock
2nd Position: Logeswaran Elangovan
3rd Position: Danish Ramlan
Under-18 Girls Division Champions
1st Position: Joy Yap Jing Ying
2nd Position: Michelle Ng
3rd Position: Kimberly Ooi Jingyi
1st Position: Tan Gian Yion
2nd Position: Sean Gabriel Wong
3rd Position: Norman Cai Ming En
1st Position: Charmaine Lim
2nd Position: Joey Yeo Ruo Qi
3rd Position: Daphne Oh Xinyi
~ CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS THIS YEAR ~
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Happy Lunar New Year!
Our National bowlers went 'Bai Nian' (拜年)* on 30th January 2012 to our partners this Chinese New Year. They include Remy Ong, Jason Yeong-Nathan, Eugene Low, Ng Tiac Pin, Jasmine Yeong-Nathan, New Hui Fen, Shayna Ng, Dapne Tan, Cherie Tan and Geraldine Ng.
This is part of our continued outreach programme to stay in touch with our valued working partners. The team visited some companies that include Canon Singapore, Dynasty Travel, Select Group and Syntech Engineering.
Despite the full-day visiting to the various offices, our bowlers were delighted at the opportunity to meet up with these organisations and their staff who had been supporting SingaporeBowling and our activities all this while.
* Mandarin for Chinese New Year Visiting
This is part of our continued outreach programme to stay in touch with our valued working partners. The team visited some companies that include Canon Singapore, Dynasty Travel, Select Group and Syntech Engineering.
Photo with new Canon Singapore President & CEO, Mr Kensaku Konishi
Visit to our Major Partner - Canon Singapore
Visit to Dynasty Travel
(Photo with Mr Perry Neo, Chairman)
(Photo with Mr Perry Neo, Chairman)
Visit to Syntech Engineering
Mr Steven Ang, Director, Syntech Engineering
giving a tour of the production area
giving a tour of the production area
Visit to Select Group
New Year greetings with Mr Vincent Tan, Managing Director, Select Group
During the visits, our bowlers had the opportunity to understand more about these organisations and had a short tour of some of their operations and a sharing session on the company plans for the new year.
Despite the full-day visiting to the various offices, our bowlers were delighted at the opportunity to meet up with these organisations and their staff who had been supporting SingaporeBowling and our activities all this while.
* Mandarin for Chinese New Year Visiting
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Singapore is Overall Champion at 25th Asian Intercity Bowling Championship
The 25th Asian Intercity Bowling Championship closed today at Orchid Bowl, Orchid Country Club with the conclusion of the Men’s, Women’s, Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s Masters Event.
Men's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Tay Hui Chiang (Jurong), 1st-Choi Suk Byung (Daegu), 3rd-Park Min Su (Daegu) / Jeremy Posadas (Paranaque)
Women's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Apple Posadas (Paranaque), 1st-Bernice Lim (Singapore), 3rd-Amanda Ng (Singapore) / Kristin Quah (Jurong)
Senior Men's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Steven Tan (Singapore), 1st-Adam Chew (Jurong), 3rd-Gerry Tan (Paranaque) / James Dela Cruz (Paranaque)
Senior Women's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Baby David (San Juan), 1st-Liza Or (Paranaque), 3rd-Shirley Liew (East Coast) / Lyn Tan (Paranaque)
Overall Champion - Singapore (front row, left to right): Bernice Lim, Fok Ka Wai, Amanda Ng, Ilma Nur Jannah, Javier Tan, Jaris Goh (back row, left to right): Alexander Tan, Remy Ong, Suresh Elangovan
“I am very happy to see that more and more people have come out to support this,” added Mr Johnson Cheng, President of the Asian Intercity Bowling Council, in his closing speech. Mr Cheng also hopes that this regional championship will continue to grow and be around for a long time more.
The event ended with an awards presentation and farewell reception, concluding the 25th running of the coveted regional championship.
Choi Suk Byung of Daegu ended the Men’s Masters Finals with a comfortable victory. He took the Men’s title, 2-0 against Tay Hui Chiang of Jurong. Choi took off to a blistering start winning the first game 235–194. Tay picked up his pace in the second game only to fall short of 11 points to lose the game (190-179). Tay faced Daegu’s Park Min Su in the semi-finals and beat him 2-1 to advance to the finals which left Park to settle for third place with Paranaque’s Jeremy Posadas who lost to Choi 2-0 in the semi-finals.
Singapore’s Bernice Lim took a comfortable lead by winning the first game of the Women’s Masters Finals 234-134 but Paranaque’s Apple Posadas came back strong to take the second game 257-207. All eyes were on the two Women’s finalists as they battled it out in the last game of the event. A close and exciting game with loud cheers from their supporters, Bernice eventually took the title just a mere 2 points ahead of Apple (215-213). Bernice beat fellow Singaporean, Kristin Quah of Jurong 2-0 in the semi-finals. Quah shares third place with Singapore’s Amanda Ng who lost to Apple 2-1 in the semi-finals.
It was a close fight to the finish in the Senior Men’s Masters Finals but Adam Chew of Jurong came out tops to win the title 2-0 (181-172 and 165-151) against Steven Tan of Singapore who had beaten the Senior Men’s Singles champion, Gerry Tan of Paranaque, 2-1 in the semi-finals. Gerry Tan shares third place with Pasay’s James Dela Cruz who lost to Chew 2-0 in the semi-finals.
Paranaque’s Liza Or emerged as the Senior Women’s Masters champion by beating San Juan’s Baby David 2-0 (213-163 and 173-124). Baby had an easy 2-0 win over fellow team-mate Lyn Tan in the semi-finals, who will take third place along with Shirley Liew of East Coast who lost to Or 1-2.
The city of Daegu was awarded top city in the Men’s division and the city of Singapore was awarded the top city in the Women’s division. The team from Singapore was also awarded the Overall City Championship.
President of the Singapore Bowling Federation, Mrs Jessie Phua made her closing speech, saying, “We can agree that the bowlers kept us at the edge of our seats and it was a befitting ending to an exciting few days.”
“I am very happy to see that more and more people have come out to support this,” added Mr Johnson Cheng, President of the Asian Intercity Bowling Council, in his closing speech. Mr Cheng also hopes that this regional championship will continue to grow and be around for a long time more.
The event ended with an awards presentation and farewell reception, concluding the 25th running of the coveted regional championship.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Canon SuperSeries 3 (2011) Grand Finale
A total of 36 teams participated in the Canon SuperSeries 3, Grand Finale on 25th September 2011 at Orchid Bowl@Orchid Country Club.
Said Syntech director Hong: "I'm very happy we won again this year. I knew we had a good chance even though PSA were close to us initially, but we all bowled well today." Added Syntech production worker Oon, 54, the only female bowler in the team: "I was a little nervous because of the competition, but we just played our own game as we are all experienced bowlers. "This is my first time playing in the Canon Super Series so winning here is quite special and I'll definitely come back next year if my boss wants me to play."
Down by one team member, Mediacorp Team 1 still managed to come out tops in the Leisure Series with a total score of 2039 pinfalls. Close behind with 2015 pinfalls was KPMG Team A, followed by the Carebears team from Finexis with 1987 pinfalls.
The six-leg corporate tournament from March 25 to Sept 25 saw some 144 teams taking part in the Competitive and Leisure categories, with the top 36 advancing to the Grand Finale.
Summing up the success of this year's tournament, Singapore Bowling Federation president Jessie Phua said: "This is the perfect setting for companies to come out on a lovely Sunday with their families for a great time. And thanks to Canon, we are able to bring some work-life balance."
~ Interviews taken from Today
The champion team for the Competitive Series was from Syntech with a total score of 2421 pinfalls, 2nd place Standard Chartered Bank scored 2255 pinfalls and Jurong Shipyard scored 2238 pinfalls for 3rd place.
Syntech receiving their prizes from Canon's Mr Von Chan
Said Syntech director Hong: "I'm very happy we won again this year. I knew we had a good chance even though PSA were close to us initially, but we all bowled well today." Added Syntech production worker Oon, 54, the only female bowler in the team: "I was a little nervous because of the competition, but we just played our own game as we are all experienced bowlers. "This is my first time playing in the Canon Super Series so winning here is quite special and I'll definitely come back next year if my boss wants me to play."
Standard Chartered in 2nd Position
Jurong Shipyard in 3rd Position
Down by one team member, Mediacorp Team 1 still managed to come out tops in the Leisure Series with a total score of 2039 pinfalls. Close behind with 2015 pinfalls was KPMG Team A, followed by the Carebears team from Finexis with 1987 pinfalls.
3-Men Team from Mediacorp Team 1
KPMG Team A coming in 2nd place
Carebears Team from Finexis in 3rd place
The six-leg corporate tournament from March 25 to Sept 25 saw some 144 teams taking part in the Competitive and Leisure categories, with the top 36 advancing to the Grand Finale.
"Ok, let's do this!"
Amidst the Formula 1 buzz, the teams were ready and raring to go. Needless to say the theme was such and some teams came dressed in F1-inspired attire which saw the team from the Supreme Court of Singapore taking home the Best Dressed prize. The Best Supported Team award went to Syntech. Sideline entertainment included authentic goodies like Dragon Beard Candy and Popcorn, and a mini-F1 racetrack.
Best Dressed Team - Supreme Court of Singapore
Best Supported Team - Syntech
Summing up the success of this year's tournament, Singapore Bowling Federation president Jessie Phua said: "This is the perfect setting for companies to come out on a lovely Sunday with their families for a great time. And thanks to Canon, we are able to bring some work-life balance."
~ Interviews taken from Today
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