Carol Owens (squash player)
Carol Owens ( born June 4, 1971 in Melbourne) is a former Australian and New Zealand squash player.
Career
Carol Owens began her professional career in 1990. With the Australian national team, she was the 1994 and 1998 World Champion. From 2000, she decided not to play longer for her native Australia. Instead, they played from now on for New Zealand and moved to Auckland to. In the same year she reached the final of the World Cup, which they won against Leilani Joyce from New Zealand with 9:6, 9:5, 7:9, 5:9 and 9:6 for the first time. In 2003, she was able to repeat this success: In the final they defeated the Englishwoman Cassie Jackman with 3:9, 9:2, 9:7 and 9:3. Shortly before the second title it was first performed at the top of world rankings. Overall, it was, with interruptions eleven months for number one. It was a total of two times New Zealand National Champion. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games won Carol Owens, at the time still under the Australian flag on the side of Sarah Fitz- Gerald the bronze medal in doubles. In each case, one gold and one silver medal she won four years later at the Games in 2002, this time under the New Zealand flag. In individual competition, they finished second behind Sarah Fitz- Gerald, while she succeeded winning the gold medal in doubles with Leilani Rorani. In the final, she defeated the English and Rorani double Tania Bailey and Cassie Jackman. In early 2004 Carol Owens finished her career.
Achievements and honors
- World Champion: 2000, 2003
- World Champion with the Australian team: 1994, 1998
- 11 months world number one
- Won WSA title: 21
- Commonwealth Games: 1x Gold (double 2002), 1x Silver (Single 2002), 1x Bronze (Double 1998)
- New Zealand Champion: 2 titles (2002, 2003)