Nick Seekamp has experienced plenty of success early in his career with Port Fairy but he never set out to chase it.
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The 39-year-old, who moved to the south-west from Adelaide 10 years ago, said he started bowls for the social aspect.
"A friend of mine Terry Miller he got me out to the Miller Memorial which was one of his family events, so it was social game and it got me hooked," he said.
"Lucky enough my first social game we won, so I was pretty happy about that.
"And then Terry just took me under his wing and started to give me some coaching on the side.
“My intentions when starting were just to get out and have some fun and to meet some of the locals.”
Seekamp, the son of former Norwood and South Australian state of origin footballer Rodney, has now become one of Port Fairy’s best players.
"I won the state novice in my first season and straight after lost the club championship final, but won it the next year which was good,” he said.
"And I am down to the final four again this year so I am hoping to go for three finals in a row.
The Adelaide export said he was not comfortable taking all of the praise for his success.
He said he could not have achieved any of it without his wife, though said the club was a major catalyst.
"I am surprised (by the success), but having said that I have had a lot of great support from people at the club encouraging me and helping me with my training which has been a major part of it,” he said.
"The club certainly made me enjoy it a lot more with so many really good people there.”
Seekamp said he was equally as happy with how his team was travelling.
“We have had quite a few people out this year so to be sitting fifth at this time of year it is actually really positive and we are heading in the right direction,” he said.
"And it looks like our second half of the season we are going to be a lot more settled with our team so there's certainly potential to be pushing for fourth spot.”
Port Fairy’s bid for that fourth spot starts on Saturday against Koroit.
“It is going to be hard to beat Koroit this year. They have made some improvements and looking really good,” he said.
“Our rink was lucky enough to beat them by one shot last season.
“Hopefully for us it would just be really good to get two rinks to win to get some points and keep us around the top four.”
