Jenny Wallis is a former Hong Kong international

lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

Bowls career

She won a

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in the fours at the

1990 Commonwealth Games The 1990 Commonwealth Games ( mi, 1990 Taumāhekeheke Commonwealth) were held in Auckland, New Zealand from 24 January – 3 February 1990. It was the 14th Commonwealth Games, and part of New Zealand's 1990 sesquicentennial celebrations. Partic ...

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

with

Naty Rozario Natividad 'Naty' Rozario is a former Hong Kong international lawn bowler. Rozario won a bronze medal in the triples at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland with Rae O'Donnell and Sandra Zakoske. She also won a bronze medal in t ...

Angela Chau Sau Ling 'Angela' Chau (date of birth unknown - 2020) was a Hong Kong international lawn bowler. Bowls career She won a bronze medal in the fours at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland with Naty Rozario, Jenny Wallis and Yee Lai Lee. In ad ...

and

Yee Lai Lee Yee Lai Lee is a former Hong Kong international lawn bowler. She won a bronze medal in the fours at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland with Naty Rozario, Jenny Wallis and Angela Chau Sau Ling 'Angela' Chau (date of birth unknown - 2020) ...

. In addition she competed in the fours at the

1994 Commonwealth Games The 1994 Commonwealth Games ( French: ''XVéme Jeux du Commonwealth'') were held in Victoria, British Columbia, from 18 to 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, ...

. She won a fours silver medal and a triples bronze medal at the 1993

Asia Pacific Bowls Championships The Asia Pacific Bowls Championships formerly the Pacific Rim Championships was a bowls, lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Asia Pacific region. The event was inaugurated in 1985, and it was initially held ...

in Victoria, Canada.

Personal life

She married

Ken Wallis Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis (26 April 1916 – 1 September 2013) was a British aviator, engineer, and inventor. During the Second World War, Wallis served in the Royal Air Force and flew 28 bomber missions over Germany; after the war ...

and they moved to

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when Jenny was appointed director of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis, Jenny Hong Kong female bowls players Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Hong Kong Year of birth missing (living people) Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games