1984 Canadian Women's Five Pin Bowling Champions
Team (2008)
Bowling
Saskatoon also produced the best women's five-pin team in Canada in 1984.
Val Touet, Terry Stewart, Cathy Daku, Michele Fosty, Jennie Irvine and Shirley Quayle ** qualified from the Saskatoon city trials. The team, coached by Jack Walsh, went to the provincials in Moose Jaw, was challenged to the final frame of the final game but their 6-2 victory over South Saskatchewan clinched the title. They won with 81.5 points.
With the Canadian Open finals at Eastview, the Saskatoon women were in control, using a stretch of 10 straight wins at one point, and building a winning total of 118.5 points. They won by 6 ½ points over Alberta.
It was the second time Saskatoon had won the national women's title, the first coming in 1967, when Shirley Quayle was also a member of the team.
** Deceased