Nadiia Usenko (born 29 January 2000 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

) is a Ukrainian professional squash player. As of February 2018, she was ranked number 102 in the world and number 1 in Ukraine. In 2017, she took part in

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. The same year in December she was representing Ukraine at the

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(Manchester, United Kingdom) for the first time in the Ukrainian squash history.

Junior career

In 2011, Nadiia Usenko started to participate in the ESF (European Squash Federation) junior tournaments and managed to achieve number 1 position in the European Junior Ranking in the each of age category: GU13, GU15, GU17 and GU19. She won Dutch Junior Open title in her last junior event in 2018.

Ukrainian National Squash Team

Nadiia Usenko became a member of the National Ukrainian Squash Team in 2014 at the age of 14. In 2018, she won a gold medal at European Team Championship in Division 3 in Riga, Latvia.

CSA squash

In 2018, Usenko joined

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Women's Squash Team. She played 3 seasons for Bantams (season 2020-2021 cancelled due to COVID). Her senior year, she was named a captain of the team. Her overall record in college squash league is 48-9.

References

2000 births Living people Ukrainian female squash players Sportspeople from Kyiv 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen {{Ukraine-sport-bio-stub Competitors at the 2022 World Games