Jacob Cartwright accepts his award of excellence at the School Sport Awards night at the MCG with Kyabram P-12 principal Marina Walsh (left) and Sarah Halliwell in attendance.
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Kyabram residents and siblings Olivia and Jacob Cartwright have been taking the world of bowls by storm recently and have been honoured for their hard work and talent.
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Jacob, who has been playing bowls since he was in Year 2, has gone from strength to strength in his schooling years, which has earned him places in the Victorian bowls team for School Sport Australia Nationals.
Jacob was selected for last year’s under-18 side for the competition and came home with the overall team gold medal.
He has also held a prominent position in the Sport Schools Victoria competition, where he skipped his team to the Year 7-9 gold medal in the 2024 grand final.
Jacob first entered the SSV scene in 2018 where his side made it to the state finals before becoming back-to-back winners in 2021 and 2022.
For his efforts, Jacob was awarded the Sporting Blue Award at the Victorian School Sports Awards on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 for excellence the year prior.
“We got the message that he had won the award about a month ago and we had to keep it a secret,” Jacob’s mother Naomi Cartwright said.
“The school (Kyabram P-12 College) knew, and they put his name forward, we are all very proud of him and how far he has taken his bowls.”
Jacob has recently trialled for the School Sport Victoria team and if he were to be selected will represent the state in the national championships in Queensland in July.
He also came placed runner-up in the open triples at the Under-18 Victorian State Championships.
Olivia Cartwright (right) will once again done the green and yellow, this time as part of a pair in the under-25 event in the Lion Cup in Singapore in July.
His sister Olivia Cartwright has been a main fixture of the Moama Steamers as well as Victorian representative teams.
She has also dabbled in national representation and has been given another opportunity to wear the green and gold, this time overseas.
Olivia has been selected in the Australian Squad for the Lion Cup in Singapore which will be held in July.
The Lion Cup, held from Sunday, July 6 to Saturday, July 12, is a pairs tournament that will see the green and gold compete in four disciplines with two open teams and two under-25 teams set to compete.
Cartwright will partner Jessie Cottell in the under-25 women’s pairing.
She also claimed silver in the pairs event at the Victorian state championships on Saturday, April 5.
Cartwright was invited to participate in the 2025 Adelaide Masters where she won two out of her three group play matches, but didn’t advance to the round of 32.
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