Julie Saunders Explained

Julie Saunders Julie Leake
Nationality:	British (English)
Birth Date:	1962
Birth Place:	Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England
Sport:	Lawn bowls
Club:	Bournemouth IBC (indoors) Poole Park (outdoors)

Julie Saunders married name Julie Leake, is an English female international lawn and indoor bowler.^[1]

Bowls career

Saunders won the English National title in 2005 representing Hampshire.^[2] By winning the National title she represented England at the 2006 World Singles Champion of Champions event in Christchurch, New Zealand where she won the gold medal defeating Julie Keegan in the final.^{[3] [4]}

In 2011 she won the fours gold medal and the triples silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.^[5] In 2022, she won the champion of champions title at the 2022 Bowls England National Finals.^[6]

Personal life

Saunders is a sports coach at Bryanston School, near Blandford Forum and married fellow bowler Roy Leake (a former fours National finalist) in Las Vegas during 2012.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Profile. Bowls tawa.
2. Web site: Past Records. Bowls England.
3. Web site: Champion of Champion finals. Burnside Bowling Club.
4. Web site: Memory Lane Julie Leake . 29 November 2020 . Bowls England . 3 December 2020.
5. Web site: 2011 Atlantic Championships. https://web.archive.org/web/20111031201626/www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk/mainresults.php . 2011-10-31 . World Bowls Ltd. 19 May 2021.
6. Web site: 2022 National Championships . Bowls England . 11 September 2022.
7. Web site: East Dorset bowling couple to wed after 23-year engagement. Daily Echo.