Rebecca Field (bowls)


Rebecca Field is an English international lawn & indoor bowls player. Field was the 2013 World Indoor singles champion.

Personal life

Field starting playing bowls at the age of eight, in her local village hall in York, giving the short mat game a go. She was attracted to the sport following a big drive in the 1990s to get people playing indoor bowls in their communities. Subsequent moves to Boston, Lincolnshire with her family and then to study at the University of East Anglia in Norwich only increased her appetite for the game. Field has language degrees in French and Spanish and currently works for a Norwich-based marketing firm.
Field is a supporter of the Championship team Norwich City Football Club.

Bowls career

Indoors

Field plays and competes for the Norfolk Bowling Club in Norwich. She competed as a junior international player for several years and won multiple titles. Amongst her accomplishments as a junior, is being a two-time English and British Isles indoor singles champion.
Field first competed for the England senior ladies team at indoor level in 2011, when she was named in the squad for the BIWIBC International Series. Field competed at her first World Indoor Championships in 2012 in the ladies singles event. Organisers invited Field to the competition after being impressed with her recent rise in the sport.
Field reached her first World Indoor Bowls ladies singles final in 2013, defeating Alison Merrien in a tie-break set becoming the youngest ever winner of the event at 23. The victory gained Field a wild card entry into the WBT International Open and direct qualification for the World Indoor Championships in 2014, where she was beaten by 18-year-old Katherine Rednall in the final.
Field was twice runner-up in the 2016 World Indoor Bowls Championship and 2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship losing to Ellen Falkner and Katherine Rednall respectively.

Outdoors

Field won her first outdoor titles, winning the ladies two-wood singles and junior pairs events at the National Championships in 2014. She first competed for the England senior ladies team at outdoor level in 2015, when she was named in the squad for BWIBC International Series.
Also at outdoor level in 2015, Field was selected to represent England at the European Team Championships and Atlantic Rim Games. She won gold in the ladies pairs, mixed fours and team events at the European Team Championships.
In 2018 she finished runner-up to Amy Gowshall in the National Two Wood Singles.

Titles and finals

YearOrgCompetitionLevelEventRef
2016OutdoorBEBowls England National ChampionshipsSeniorLadies FoursRunner-up
2016OutdoorNBANBA Women's County FinalsSeniorLadies 4-Wood Singles
2016OutdoorNBANBA Women's County FinalsSeniorLadies Triples
2016OutdoorNBANBA Women's County FinalsSeniorLadies Rinks
2016OutdoorBIWBCBIWBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2016IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2016IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorVivienne Trophy
2016IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorEgham Trophy
2016IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorAtherley Trophy
2016IndoorPBAWorld Indoor Bowls ChampionshipsSeniorLadies SinglesRunner-up
2015OutdoorEBUEuropean Bowls ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Pairs
2015OutdoorEBUEuropean Bowls ChampionshipsSeniorMixed Fours
2015OutdoorEBUEuropean Bowls ChampionshipsSeniorCombined Team
2015OutdoorBIWBCBIWBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2015IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2015IndoorBIWIBCBIIBC / BIWIBC ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Triples
2015IndoorBIWIBCBIIBC / BIWIBC ChampionshipsCombined Team1
2015IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Champion of Champions
2014OutdoorBEBowls England National ChampionshipsSeniorLadies 2-Wood Singles
2014OutdoorBEBowls England National ChampionshipsJuniorLadies Pairs
2014IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2014IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC Under-25 International SeriesJnr / U25Ladies Team
2014IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Triples
2014IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorMixed FoursRunner-up
2014IndoorPBAWorld Indoor Bowls ChampionshipsSeniorLadies SinglesRunner-up
2013OutdoorBIWBCBIWBC Under-25 International SeriesJnr / U25Ladies Team
2013IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2013IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC Under-25 International SeriesJnr / U25Ladies Team
2013IndoorBIWIBCBIIBC / BIWIBC ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Singles
2013IndoorBIWIBCBIIBC / BIWIBC ChampionshipsCombined Team1
2013IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorLadies FoursRunner-up
2013IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorMixed Fours
2013IndoorPBAWorld Indoor Bowls ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Singles
2012IndoorNCWIBANCIBA / NCWIBA County ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Singles
2012IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2012IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC Under-25 International SeriesJnr / U25Ladies Team
2012IndoorWIBCWIBC Under-25 ChampionshipsU25Ladies SinglesRunner-up
2012IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Singles
2011OutdoorNBANBA Women's County FinalsU25Ladies SinglesRunner-up
2011IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC International SeriesSeniorLadies Team
2011IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC Under-25 International SeriesJnr / U25Ladies Team
2011IndoorBIWIBCBIIBC / BIWIBC ChampionshipsJnr / U25Ladies Singles
2011IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsU25Ladies Singles
2010IndoorBIWIBCBIWIBC Under-25 International SeriesJnr / U25Ladies Team
2010IndoorBIWIBCBIIBC / BIWIBC ChampionshipsSeniorLadies Pairs
2009IndoorBIWIBCBIIBC / BIWIBC ChampionshipsJnr / U25Ladies Singles
2009IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsSeniorLadies PairsRunner-up
2009IndoorEWIBAEIBA / EWIBA National ChampionshipsU25Ladies Singles

1The Gedling Trophy is awarded to the best overall performing nation.

Awards

Her husband is England international Wayne Willgress.