The Don Kelly Memorial Shield

Don Kelly was involved with The East Coast Tournaments for the best part of 25 years. He served on the Board of Directors of Tenpin Australia as Secretary and Treasurer for many years and was involved with the Queensland teams for most of those 25 years.

Don was always especially interested in the Junior/Youth bowlers and was always ready and willing to help improve their game with advice, instruction or whatever was required.

This shield was generously donated by the Kelly family, with a request that it be applied to the under 21 bowlers in the East Coast Challenge Cup.
The criteria is " the most improved average from the East Coast Challenge Cup games".

The inaugural year was 2006.

and the winners are.................

2006    Kate Morrison            New South wales
2007    James Banfield          Victoria
2008    Zach Pett                   Victoria
2009    Alison McGuirk          New South Wales
2010    Candice Creighton    Queensland  
2011    Sam Curry                 Victoria
2012    Zack Boike                Queensland
2013    Chantal Bosma         Victoria     
2014    Nicholas Rajkovic     Victoria
2015    Chris Lane                Queensland
2016    Hayden Honey          New South Wales
2017    Kayla Piffero             Queensland
2018    Sam Flannery           New South Wales
​2019    Alisha Holt                New South Wales
2022    Tarran Watts             Victoria
2023    Lachlan Parker         New South Wales
2024    Chloe Osterlund       Victoria
2025    Jessie Desmier         ​Queensland