Tanya Cooke

Cooke was a member of her Glenlola Collegiate School club and the Bangor Parish Badminton Club.^[1] She represented Ulster at the provincial level^[2] and represented the Irish U18 team at the 1987 European Junior Championships before joining the U21 squad.^[3]

Cooke joined the Alpha Badminton Club in Lisburn^[4] and was defeated by Carol Munster in the 1989 ladies singles club championship final.^[5] She won the 1989 Northern Irish Schools' Gold Award.^[6] She subsequently represented the all-Ireland team at full senior international level.^[7]

Cooker was selected for the 1990 Northern Irish team^[8] at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand,^[9] where she competed in three events.^[10] In the singles she lost to Doris Piché of Canada in group 2^[11] and Cheng Yin Sat of Hong Kong in the first round.^[12]