Katy Howell
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Katy Howell is a former international badminton player from Wales who competed at the Commonwealth Games and is a three-times champion of Wales.[1]
Biography
[edit]Howell, from Swansea[2] represented West Glamorgan at county level[3] and Wales at international level.[4][5]
She specialised in doubles play and her partners included Gail Osborne and Kelly Morgan in women's doubles[6] and Andrew Groves-Burke, John Leung and James Phillips in mixed doubles.[7] She won both the women's doubles title with Gail Osborne and the mixed doubles title with John Leung at the 1998 Welsh National Badminton Championships.[8]
Howell subsequently represented the Welsh team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,[9] where she competed in the singles, doubles and team events.[10] Shortly after the Games, Howell joined the sports department at the Graig campus of Carmarthenshire College as a lecturer.[11]
Howell partnered Kelly Morgan when finishing runner-up in the 2001 women's doubles final at the nationals,[12] and went on to secure a second national mixed doubles title in 2008.[13]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Profile". BWF. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ↑ "French fall as Welsh march in". South Wales Echo. 28 November 1996. p. 55. Retrieved 2 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Leaders crush county in final league clash". South Wales Daily Post. 28 May 1997. p. 32. Retrieved 2 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Harriet shines". West Sussex County Times. 26 September 1997. p. 52. Retrieved 2 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Gibson set for Leinster Open". Irish Independent. 21 January 1997. p. 19. Retrieved 3 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "In Brief". South Wales Daily Post. 2 December 1998. p. 46. Retrieved 2 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Bruce is tops in Welsh clash". Belfast Telegraph. 7 March 1997. p. 39. Retrieved 2 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Sports Round-Up". South Wales Daily Post. 2 February 1998. p. 33. Retrieved 2 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Athletes' Profile: Badminton". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ↑ "Wales Kuala Lumpur 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ↑ "Welsh ace in move to Graig". Llanelli Star. 24 September 1998. p. 54. Retrieved 3 March 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Vaughan and Morgan a class apart". BBC Sport. 5 February 2001. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ↑ "National Championships". Badminton People. Retrieved 2 March 2026.