Meagan Best
2021-22
• CSA first-team All-American selection
• First-team All-MASC selection
• Compiled a record of 13-6 to lead the Cavaliers in wins
• Played at the No. 1 position in each match she participated in
• Won two of three matches at the MASC championships
• Recorded a victory over No. 3 Princeton’s Andrea Toth at the CSA Team Championships
• Won the consolation bracket of the Ramsay Cup (CSA A-Draw)
• Won her delayed collegiate debut playing at the top of the ladder in the season-opener at Yale (11/13)
• Picked up a four-game win against Elle Ruggerio at No. 3 Princeton (11/20)
2020-21
• ACC Academic Honor Roll
• Did not compete due to the COVID-19 cancelation of the season
Background
• Barbados’ flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
• Three-time Barbados Olympic Association Junior Female Outstanding Athlete of the Year
• Three-time National Sports Council Junior Outstanding Sportsperson
• Named a 2018-19 All-American,
• Captured a silver medal in the women’s individual competition and a gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 2019 Junior Pan American Championships
• Won a U.S. Junior Open title and a Canadian Junior Open title
• Two-time Caribbean Senior winner
• Captured four Barbados Senior National titles and seven Caribbean Junior titles
• Won 15 Barbados Junior National titles
• Three-time gold medalist and two time silver medalist at the Junior Pan American Championships, including her run at the 2019 international tournament
• Won a silver medal at the 2019 U.S. Junior Opens
• Won three bronze medals at the U.S. Junior Opens
• Captured a silver medal at Canadian Junior Open Championships
• Five-time silver medalist in tennis at the Christopher Howitt tournament
• Won a gold medal in tennis at the 2011 Christopher Howitt Tournament and the 2012 Pine Hill Dairy Tournament in singles and doubles
• Won a silver medal at the 2014 National Sports Council’s Secondary School Badminton Championships Doubles tournament and a bronze medal at the 2014 National Sports Council’s Secondary School Badminton Championships Singles tournament
Personal
• Daughter of Michael and Gayle Best
• Statistics major