Meagan Best

2023-24

• CSA First Team All-American, her third time being named to the first team
• Finalist for the Betty Richey Award, the CSA’s top honor for a female student-athlete
• MASC Women’s Player of the Year, earning the honor for the second-straight year
• All-MASC First Team
• Competed in the Ramsay Cup (CSA A-Division) for the third straight year, falling to eventual national champion Saran Ngheim of Harvard in the quarterfinals
• Playing at the top of the ladder for the Cavaliers
• Won six straight matches from Dec. 3 – Feb. 11
• Picked up her 10th win of the season, a 3-0 victory against Wen Li Lai of Cornell (2/19)
• MASC All-Academic Team
• CSA Scholar-Athlete

2023 INTERNATIONAL

• Won two bronze medals at the 2023 Pan Am Games, one in doubles and one in the team competition, representing Barbados. These were the first medals won in the sport of squash at the Pan Ams for her home nation

2022-23

• MASC Women’s Player of the Year – a unanimous selection. She is the first player in program history to earn the accolade
• First Team All-American, her second year earning first-team honors
• Top four finish in the Ramsay A Division bracket at the CSA Individual Championships
• First-team All-MASC, her second time earning first team honors
• Finished the season 15-5 with a 13-4 record at No. 1
• Advanced to the semifinals of the Ramsay A Division bracket at the CSA Individual Championships

2021-22

• CSA First-Team All-American selection, the first player in program history to earn first team honors and the second to be named an All-American
• First-team All-MASC selection
• MASC Rookie of the Year
• 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)
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

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
• Psychology major