The national title was won at Auckland last Saturday in the Corner to Corner challenge at the Mt Eden Bowling Club.
Mann (55), a housekeeper at Owens Motels, won the Dunedin regional final in late March to get a trip to the national final.
There were 12 finalists from throughout New Zealand and she was the only female competitor.
"I'm just overwhelmed by what has happened to me.
Never in a million years did I dream of winning the event and returning home with a cheque of $3000 for the club," she said.
It was an exhilarating feeling for her to win the Grants Whisky-sponsored event.
"A big grin came over my face when I won and I'm still beaming," Mann said.
Mann was also a key member of the North East Valley women's four that won the Bowls Dunedin champion of champions fours title.
The North East Valley team of Mann, Daphne Taita, Abbey Dugdale and Kay Hammond beat Carolyn Crawford, Bev Knox, Gaynor Moss and Rose Henderson (St Clair) in the final, 23-7.
The last women's centre title won by North East Valley was in 1985, when Maureen Fraser won the champion of champions singles.
Mann, who has been playing bowls for the last 11 years, will now have bragging rights over her partner Neill Williams when they discuss the game at home.
Mann was a versatile sportswoman in her youth and played for the Otago B hockey team in the 1970s and was runner-up in the senior women's 100m three years in a row when she competed in athletics.
It was the first Bowls Dunedin title for all members of the North East Valley team.
Hammond (49), an office administrator, won a centre title when she was a member of the United Club at Nelson before coming to Dunedin two years ago.
It was a star-studded club that includes world champions Val Smith and Jo Edwards and Black Jack Colleen Earl.
Hammond has always been talented at sport and represented Nelson at softball, indoor cricket, golf and bowls.
The oldest member of the team was Taita (72) who has been playing bowls for the last 17 years.
"It was a wonderful feeling to win the title and it still is," she said.
The youngster in the team was Dunedin auditor Abbey Dugdale (22), who was introduced to the game at the age of 15 by her father, when she was a pupil at Chilton St James College in Wellington.
She has played in secondary school events and reached the last 16 of the singles at the New Zealand championships at Wellington three years ago.
The Wakari team of Nigel Birkbeck, Peter Barron and Geoff Purdon finished runner-up in the triples at the national finals of the Pathways tournament at Invercargill this week behind the winning Hillsboro team from Auckland.
