Bowling Legend Passes On

Bowls director, Marea Modutlwa told Sport Monitor that Allen was a high value member of the bowls family who served the BBA for many years as an executive committee member. He was a public relations officer and competition secretary from 1997 until 1998. Allen was the BBA chairperson from 1998 until 2000 and 2002 up to 2008. “Allen qualified as an umpire in 1996.

He was an umpire at the African States Tournament (AST) in 1997 and 2005. He was in the Local Organising Committee for the AST when it was hosted by Botswana in 1997 and in 2005,” she said. Modutlwa said in 1996, Allen was in the LOC of the Welsh Bowling Association tour of Botswana. He was then appointed as the national selector from 2008 to 2012. Allen was president of Zone VI Bowls Confederation from 2011 to 2013.