Marlene West

Marlene started to compete in National Swimming Championships from 1987 and also captained the Jamaican national water polo team.^[3] However she pursued her major part of her career in squash and joined the Professional Squash Association in 1994. She represented Jamaica at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which was her maiden Commonwealth Games appearance. Marlene also competed at the 2003 Pan American Games, which is her only appearance at a Pan American Games event. She also took part at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, which was also the last appearance she made for Jamaica before moving to Cayman Islands.^[3]

She represented the Cayman Islands at the 2010 Commonwealth Games which was also her debut Cayman Islands appearance at an international event. She then went onto compete at the 2014 and in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.^[5] She also competed at the 2012 Women's World Open Squash Championship and became the first player from Cayman Islands to compete at a World Open Squash Championship.

She made her Island Games debut in 2011 and claimed two medals at the event.^[6] Marlene claimed three gold medals at the 2019 Island Games at the age of 47 on her first Island Games event after six years due to the non inclusion of squash in 2015 and 2017 editions.^[7]