Senga Macfie also spelt as Senga MacFie (born 18 October 1968) is an English-born Scottish former professional squash player. After retiring from playing professionally, she now coaches squash at Abercorn Sports Club in Edinburgh. She represented the Scotland national women's squash team in several international competitions including the British Open Squash Championships, World Open Squash Championships and in World Team Squash Championships in a career spanning from 1993 to 2010. She achieved her career-high PSA ranking of World No. 16 in January 1995 during the 1995 PSA World Tour.

Career

She also represented England women's junior team until 1992 before switching to play for Scotland. She won the inaugural

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which was held in 1990. She also emerged as winner of the 1984

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in women's U16 category and emerged as runners-up to England's

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at the 1986 British Junior Open Squash in women's U19 category. She joined the

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in 1993 and competed at the

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until 2002. Senga also represented

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and

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. She was also part of the Scottish team which emerged as runners-up to England at the 2002

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. She is now a Squash coach and has helped kickstart the careers of household names such as Jathan Dick and Lain Ronald. Runner up Scottish Women's Nationals 2023.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macfie, Senga 1968 births Living people Scottish female squash players Squash players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Squash players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland Squash players from London 20th-century Scottish sportswomen