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Stephanie has been active in the squash community since the age of eight with an outstanding record in both singles and doubles.
In Ontario, Stephanie was the 1999 Ontario Open and Closed Singles Champion, an 11-time Ontario Open Doubles Champion, 10-time Ontario Mixed Doubles Champion, and six-time Ontario 40+ Doubles Champion, totalling 28 provincial titles. In 1999-2001 she was voted an OUAA All Star, and in 2000 she won the OUAA Team Championships and the OUAA Individual Championships in 2001.
Nationally, she won 35+ and 45+ singles titles, eight Women’s Open Doubles titles, nine Canadian Mixed Open Doubles titles, six Century Doubles titles, and first place in both 1998 and 2002 Canadian Women’s Team Championships. She was a member of the Nation Women’s Team between 96-2000.
Internationally, Stephanie achieved a World Doubles #1 ranking in the years 2008-2010 and 2011-12 and a #68 WISPA Highest World Ranking. She won four World Doubles Championships in 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2015, won five U.S. Women’s Open Doubles Championships, and one of each in U.S. Open Mixed, U.S. 40+ Mixed, and U.S. Century Mixed Championships. Stephanie has also won 19 professional doubles titles and was the first person (man or woman) to win a World Championship on both walls (right in 2006 and left in 2009).
Stephanie has influenced both the women’s singles and doubles game, leading the way for women to play doubles at the highest levels of the game in Toronto, helping shape the women’s doubles professional tour as an inaugural board member, bringing professional doubles to Canada, and fundraising to encourage equal prize money for men and women at the 2011 World Championships held in Toronto.
Lastly, Stephanie made substantial contributions to the game as a member of the Squash Ontario Board of Directors from 2003-2007, serving as President in 2006-2007. She was co-captain of the Can-Am Cup in 2010 and 2015, elected a Jester in 2014, and inducted into the Toronto Cricket Club Squash Hall of Fame in 2019.
