LIFE IN PROFESSIONAL SPORT, COMMONWEALTH GOLD & HARVARD - GINA KENNEDY

Georgina Kennedy is an English professional squash player. In August 2022, ranked number 8 in the world, she became the first Englishwoman to win a Commonwealth Games squash singles title. Until 2020, Kennedy divided her time between squash and studying at Harvard University where she co-captained the university's Howe Cup-winning women’s team, and won the US National Collegiate Individual Championship (Ramsay Cup) three times, in 2017, 2019 and 2020. In February 2020, she was awarded the 2020 College Squash Association's Betty Richey Award, one of the biggest honours in US college squash.