"I never ever gave that a thought," says Jorgensen, revealing "a fantastic year" when she clinched the singles, junior under-5, senior centre and champion-of-champion titles which caught the eye of Hawke's Bay selectors in the early 1990s.
"They were impressed at how I went on to start with a show of promise."
That sense of assurance saw her claim four gold medals, just as many silver ones and two bronzes internationally.
She and 74-year-old Hugh left for Bay of Plenty in 2002 not long after winning bronze at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in the fours team of Anne Lomas (skip), Jan Kahn (lead), Jorgensen (two) and Sharon Sims (three).
Two world championship golds had come in Moama, South Australia, in 2000.
"It was so hot. We put heaps of sunblock on and it just melted."
Jorgensen relished the camaraderie and building a social network through the code that took her overseas.
But with that came an existence of living on the edge from town to town come competition time.
For her the Asia-Pacific was "exceptional", offering myriad cultures.
"We used to have cultural nights and on different nights each country held their cultural events."
Jorgensen has 20 BOP centre titles to her name, added to numerous ones she clinched for Wairere club and Bowls Napier.
The couple switched allegiances because Napier club was closer to their home.
Before bowls Jorgensen was into badminton for several years, going on to establish a club for teenagers and women at Taradale club.
"I snapped my Achilles tendon playing in a club competition at Centennial Hall [now Rodney Green centre in Napier] during a club competition so that was it."
The ex-Wairere club secretary has won six Super Bowls crowns, a competition that doesn't exist nowadays.
In 1997, she was the overall New Zealand Super Bowl champion.
The 2000 Hawke's Bay Sports Award finalist was also nominated for the monthly Sport HB awards for four years in a row (1996-99).
"I think a cyclist won it so bowls was boring to those ones in those days."
Jorgensen has won numerous mixed pairs titles with Hugh at the annual Australia centennial tourneys.
"I even won a singles title one year."
It is a case of it is what it is with Jorgensen when asked if she gravitated to a team existence rather than carve a niche in the singles arena.
"It's a simple game overall but it's a challenge to get next to the white ball [jack or kitty]."
Bowls NZ, she emphasises, offered her the position of making up Millie Khan's four and pairs in her maiden assignment and she duly fulfilled that in the Asia-Pacific Games in 1997 in Warrilla, Australia.
That liaison went on to yield gold in the fours and triples at the eighth Asia-Pacific Games in Malaysia. Two silvers followed in 2001 at Moama in the fours and triples.
"I was lucky I was even offered that position with Millie they had very strong singles players then," reveals the grandmother who retired from the international scene with the bowls matriarch from Waikato in 2002.
"I was quite happy where I was put. It's a privilege to be there so you just do your best."
The euphoria of a national call up soon subsided "when it dawned on me that I was going to be playing with the great Millie Khan".
"She was a lovely person who never complained and was very positive," says Jorgensen, acknowledging her influence.
She was more in preparation mode with Khan's successor, Marlene Castles, trying different positions with Lomas (skip) and Sims (three).
Jorgensen was happy with her national accomplishments in eight years and felt it was time make way for the younger aspirants.
"I think Millie felt the same way too so we went out at the end of 2002."
Harbouring thoughts of a singles career never entered her mind because she saw it as counterproductive to a collective existence. The lead and two "very similar positions" were Jorgensen's forte.
"In two, on occasions, I had to do a run shot so there was a wee bit more involved."
Ironically the woman who is indebted to selectors' for spotting her latent prowess this year will embark on her own odyssey as club selector this year.
Fortunately for the Jorgensens, life after sport doesn't have to be without bowls.
Travelling to special tourneys to support fellow club members is equally satisfying.
Hugh didn't represent his country but is an adroit bowler in his own right.
"He's a very good bowler for his age," she says of her husband who has numerous centre and club titles in singles, pairs and triples and finished third in the national singles once.
The couple didn't compete against each other or "fought or screamed on the greens".
They played in mixed fours, triples and pairs and reciprocity was always on the agenda with Jorgensen normally leading.
"When the both of us are playing, if one's not there then the other gets there, if you know what I'm saying."
Born in Wairoa, she sees herself as a "Mahiatian" because that's where parents Eva and Charles raised their children.
When Charles died her mother remarried Nema Greening.
"We were a loving family but not well off," she says, revealing her mother raised nine children "so it was hand-to-mouth stuff".
Hukarere College in Napier beckoned when she became a teenager.
"My dad died and left a legacy so I was lucky to go to school."
Two years later she worked at the telephone exchange in Napier.
"I met hubby in New Brighton, Christchurch, when I got a job transfer to there.
"He did his term in the army so we decided to come this way [Hawke's Bay]."
Hugh worked for a carpentry firm, Alexander's, in Napier and built their first home here before going on to become a waterside worker at Port of Napier.
The couple have four children - Debbie, 54, in Melbourne, David, 48, in Sydney, Jason, 45, of Napier, and Leesa, 43, in South London.
They have no regrets about settling in Tauranga.
"They have lovely beaches and hubby's into his fishing.
"We have sandy beaches here and Hawke's Bay only has rocks so you can't get into the water without shoes.
"So otherwise everything in Hawke's Bay is lovely," she says with a laugh, revealing she caught up with some long-time Hawke's Bay friends at the Ohope women's Open fours tourney.
"We have fond memories of Hawke's Bay but Tauranga is our home now so we never look back."
Closing honours for Omanu club this weekend, Jorgensen says they hope to keep playing as long as they keep in good health.
"It's recreational and the body is mobile so all that just ties in.
"Every game and every day is different," she says.
"Bad bowls", such as ending up in the ditch", is inevitable but she takes it in her stride.
