Margaret has always been a keen sportswoman: a sprinter as a teenager, then hockey and squash through her twenties and thirties, and soccer with her daughters into her early forties. Croquet, discovered through family connections, offered the practical dress code lawn bowls didn't. She started learning at Windsor on a half-sized lawn, and by 1994, after just one year in the game, was runner-up in the Division 4 Singles.
Queensland and interclub events
Margaret won the Division 3 Brooch (1996, 1997), the Silver Medal (1998), the Queensland Ladies event (2002), the Division 1 Medal (2007, 2009, 2010), the Gibson Medal (2010), and the Toowoomba Rene Cole Singles (2007). At the Gold Coast Tournament she was runner-up in 1998 and won in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007.
National and international
- Jean Armstrong Shield (Adelaide): won four times, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2012, against strong national fields including Betty Belz, Shirley Carr, Creina Dawson, Janine Hawker and Sue Beattie.
- ACA President's Eights / Jean Armstrong Bowl: won 2003 (13 of 14 games) and 2004 (10 of 14 games).
- Eire Cup: Queensland interstate team member 2002-2014; Queensland won the Cup in 2006, and Margaret was Australian Women's Singles champion in 2008.
- Trans-Tasman Test Series: represented Australia in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011, receiving Best Player of the Tournament in 2004. The 2011 series was Australia's first win over New Zealand in twenty years.
- World events: qualified for and played the WCF Women's World Association Event (New Zealand 2008; again 2012), completing 31 triple peels over a 12-year period.
- Golf Croquet: represented Queensland in the Australian Interstate Shield (2008-2011), played the WCF Golf Women's Worlds (2009, ranked 7th), and won the Australian Women's Golf Championship in 2010, beating then World Ladies Champion Alex Verge in the final.
Recognition
Margaret received the Brisbane Electorate Sports Achievement Award in 2004, and was appointed a Queensland selector in 2018, continuing through 2019.
*Nominated by Stephens Club; inducted into the CAQ Virtual Hall of Recognition in September 2018.*