SHE chose lawn bowls for school sport when she was 15 years old and now Raymond Terrace's Natasha Scott (nee Van Eldik) will represent Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland.
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Six selection camps and hours of rigorous training later Scott received news that she had made the Australian Jackaroos side and would head to Glasgow in July.
"I was a bit blown away at the time," she said.
"It's been my goal for four years, I've worked hard."
Scott made the cut ahead of 13 of the country's top bowlers and said it was "a very nervous process".
Scott is training with her Jackaroos squad in Sydney and Melbourne in the lead-up to the games, where she will compete for more than a month.
It will be Scott's second Commonwealth Games, having competed in India in 2010.
She said "full-on training" was necessary as the sport could be demanding.
"You can be out on the green for nine hours a day."
In the same year Scott took up lawn bowls she was picked to play for the NSW 18s team and at 19 made history as the youngest Australian lawn bowls representative. When Scott picked lawn bowls for sport at Irrawang High School she was hoping to "get out of sport" but was spotted by the coach at Raymond Terrace Bowling Club, where she still trains at age 23.