Katy Howell
Welsh international badminton player
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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]
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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Badminton | ||||||||||||||
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Biography
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]