Tsawwassen's Pricilla Westlake will be wearing national team colours for the third time this year after she was recently selected to represent Team Canada at the World Bowls Championships in New Zealand this November.
In March, Westlake won a bronze medal for Team Canada at the 2016 World Cup in Australia and competed against the world's best junior bowlers in April at Broadbeach Bowls Club in Queensland.
She is the only woman from B.C. and the youngest of all the players going to New Zealand. Steve Santana from North Vancouver is the only other player from B.C. The Championships will see the top 31 qualified countries compete across four disciplines - singles, pairs, triples and fours - for the coveted men's and women's overall champion title.
"I'm thrilled to have been selected to represent Team Canada," Westlake said. "It's the next biggest thing I'd say to the Commonwealth Games.
"It happens every four years and I'm super, super ecstatic to have been selected for this team."
The latest selection to Team Canada continues Westlake's fantastic year as an individual competitor, but she can now add coaching to her impressive resume.
She recently coached fellow Tsawwassen Lawn Bowling Club member Emma Boyd at the B.C. Junior Championships in Sydney, in which Boyd won a silver medal, and made her national coaching debut alongside club member Amanda Trembley at the junior nationals in North Vancouver.
"Amanda is someone who I introduced to the sport," Westlake said. "I have a pretty good rapport with all our juniors at the club. I love working with them, so this is going to be a great experience coaching at the national level for the very first time."
Westlake also competed at the Forster-Lang Championship and the U25 Championships. Now, she will be concentrating her efforts on national team preparations.
"Because the team is so spread out all over the country - and the world - it's logistically impossible for us to get together much as a team, so you have to practice on your own," she said. "But in order to do well at that level, you have to put in the practice hours, and hopefully we can reap the rewards in New Zealand."
Boyd added her second medal of the summer by winning bronze at junior nationals.
