Howie - known as Rhona Martin won she was the skip of the British team that won the Olympic curling gold medal at Salt Lake City 2002 - will be manager of the lawn bowls team at Gold Coast 2018. 

Howie has amassed a wealth of team management experience at multi-sport events and joined Bowls Scotland as high performance manager in May 2015. 

She has worked extensively with the players who will represent Scotland and will make sure that they and the coaching team can focus on performance, as they look to build on the success of Glasgow 2014 when they won four medals, three of them gold.

"I am honoured to have been nominated as team manager for lawn bowls for the upcoming 2018 Commonwealth Games," the 50-year-old Howie said. 

"Working with lawn bowls has been an exciting new challenge for me and within the recently named high performance squad we have a strong mix of seasoned top level performers and up and coming prospects with great potential. 

"I am looking forward to working closely with Commonwealth Games Scotland, Scottish Disability Sport and the performance support team to ensure we can give the athletes the best opportunities to perform in the Gold Coast."

Another well-known former athlete named as one of the managers is Jamie Bowie, a silver medallist in the 4x400 metres relay at the International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Championships in Sopot in 2014. 

The 27-year-old Bowie joined Scottish Gymnastics as performance manager last August, working with the men’s and women’s artistic national performance programme.

He was part of the Scotland 4x400m team that finished fifth at Glasgow 2014 but will be team manager for gymnastics at Gold Coast 2018.

"For me it’s a really exciting transition away from competitive athlete into the performance and team management side of sport," Bowie said. 

"I’ve always been really passionate about athletes and coaches getting the best out of themselves, delivering on the day. 

"I hope my understanding of the pressures, through the journey of qualifying to competing on the Commonwealth stage will benefit our gymnasts and Team Scotland in 2018."

Other managers named were Karen McElveen for netball, Julie Mollison for athletics and Paul Bell for squash. 

They will be hoping to help guide Scotland to their best Commonwealth Games performance outside Scotland.

At Glasgow 2014 they won a record 53 medals, including 19 gold.

There best overseas was at Melbourne 2006 where they won 29 medals, 11 of them gold. 

"The sport team managers play a vital role within both their sport and the wider team to create the best possible environment at the Games for athletes to excel," Jon Doig, Scotland's Chef de Mission for Gold Coast 2018, said. 

"I’m delighted to have all five of these talented managers on board, as we come together as one Team Scotland with the aim of having our most successful overseas Games ever in Gold Coast."

With the previous appointment of Lindsay Lewis as aquatics team manager, six sports now have their team manager in place.