But for Smeaton's Claire Cleary it is all three, and then some.

Three years after her husband Jim died, she was enticed from her farm to the Smeaton greens.

"My husband died in '76 and then one of the members, Shirley Tennant, she asked me to join the bowling club," Cleary said.

"She said come down one day and have a look, so I did.

"I went down and had a practice with them and I never looked back."

Just two years later she was elected into any club's hardest role.

"That's why I took on secretary, you see, coz I was on my own.

"It was an interest for me and I used to love doing it."

And for the past 26 years Cleary has been diligently working as the club secretary, tournament secretary, delegate to the BDLBA, and if that is not enough she is constantly bowling as well.

"I used to be secretary of the church and things like that," she said.

"And I said I'd do it, but I never thought I'd be there that long.

"They never voted me out, so they must've thought I was all right."

This year she decided it was time to ease things back - the 85-year-old is just the assistant secretary and tournament secretary now.

Not surprisingly she is a Smeaton life member.

The division three skipper was back-to-back club champion in '89 and '90, and runner-up in '82 and '94.

Cleary also has three premierships under her belt, but none of these rate a mention when she reflects on her bowling highlight.

"I'd say the ladies of the club. I enjoy all their company. Lovely ladies," she said.

These days the super veteran (a bowler aged 80 and over) lives in Wendouree.

"I was on the farm and I stayed eight years after my husband died," Cleary said.

"If anything went wrong with the animals I used to have to get the neighbours to see to them.

"So I decided I'd sell them all and I moved out."

But she could never leave Smeaton's "lovely ladies".