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Joan Ricketts is a former Welsh international lawn bowler. [1]
Joan was part of the fours team that won the gold medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. [2] [3]
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Joan Ricketts is a former Welsh international lawn bowler. [1]
Joan was part of the fours team that won the gold medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. [2] [3]
Samuel Derek Ricketts is a professional football coach and former player.
Rohan Anthony Ricketts is an English professional footballer who most recently played as an attacking midfielder for Master's Futbol of League1 Ontario.
Anthony Ricketts is a former professional squash player from Australia.
Australia competed at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada from 30 July to 7 August 1954. It was Australia's fifth appearance at the Commonwealth Games, having competed at every Games since their inception in 1930.
Stewart Boswell is a professional squash player from Australia.
Donovan Ricketts is a Jamaican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Ricketts played more than 100 games for Bradford City in England, and has more than 100 appearances in Major League Soccer and has twice been named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year. He was also the captain of the Jamaica national team, earning 100 caps for his country, until his retirement from international football in 2013.
Peter Forbes Ricketts, Baron Ricketts, is a retired British senior diplomat and a life peer. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2016.
Thomas B. Ricketts was an English-born American stage and film actor and director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the first American film adaptation of A Christmas Carol (1908), and directed one of the first motion pictures ever made in Hollywood. After directing scores of silent films, including the first film to be released by Universal Pictures, Ricketts became a prominent character actor.
Richard James Ricketts, Jr. was an American professional basketball and baseball player. Ricketts was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1955 NBA draft by the St. Louis Hawks out of Duquesne University. Ricketts played professional basketball and baseball simultaneously and retired from basketball to play baseball. He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1959 and had a 10-season pitching career. He is one of 13 athletes to play in both the NBA and MLB.
The Grand Rapids Chicks were a women's professional baseball team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1945 to 1954, winning championships in 1947 and 1953.
Judith Earline Veronica Simpson is a British former heptathlete who competed at three Olympic Games. She went on to appear as Nightshade in the TV show Gladiators between 1993 and 1996.
Joan Cynthia Harrison is a retired South African swimmer who won the 100 m backstroke event at the 1952 Olympics.
Vivien Joan Haddon now Vivien Boyd is a former swimming representative from New Zealand.
Ganoga Lake is a natural lake in Colley Township in southeastern Sullivan County in Pennsylvania, United States. Known as Robinson's Lake and Long Pond for most of the 19th century, the lake was purchased by the Ricketts family in the early 1850s and became part of R. Bruce Ricketts' extensive holdings in the area after the American Civil War. The lake is one of the highest in Pennsylvania, which led Ricketts to name it Highland Lake by 1874 and rename it Ganoga Lake in 1881; Pennsylvania senator Charles R. Buckalew suggested the name Ganoga from the Seneca language word for "water on the mountain".
Jersey competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010.
Keilani Johanna Ricketts Tumanuvao is an American, former collegiate All-American, pro All-Star left-handed hitting softball pitcher. She attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, and attended the University of Oklahoma from 2010-2013, where she was the starting pitcher and helped to lead the Sooners to the 2013 NCAA Division I national softball title. As a member of the United States women's national softball team she won 2011 World Cup of Softball. Ricketts currently plays for the USSSA Pride in the National Pro Fastpitch. She is the Sooners career leader in wins and strikeouts. She also ranks for career records in both the Big 12 Conference and the NCAA Division I, where she is one three players to win 100 games with 1,000 strikeouts and hit 50 home runs.
Shanieka Ricketts is a Jamaican athlete whose specialty is the triple jump. She won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in Doha. Her personal bests in the event are 14.98 metres outdoors and 14.08 metres indoors. In July 2021, she qualified to represent Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Sir Ronald Stewart Scott was a New Zealand sports administrator. He was the chairman of the organising committee for the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games, and was Chef de Mission at the 1984 Olympic Games. In Wellington he helped establish the Westpac Stadium.
Gareth Andre Theodore Henry is a Jamaican badminton player. He competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games; and 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games. Henry was part of the national team that won the men's team bronze at the 2018 Pan Am Men's Team Championships. Partnered with Samuel O’Brien Ricketts, he clinched the men's doubles gold at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Jamaica competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia from April 4 to April 15, 2018. It was Jamaica's 17th appearance at the Commonwealth Games.
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