Katy Howell

Katy Howell is a former international badminton player from Wales who competed at the Commonwealth Games and is a three-times champion of Wales.

Biography Howell, from Swansea represented West Glamorgan at county level and Wales at international level.

She specialised in doubles play and her partners included Gail Osborne and Kelly Morgan in women's doubles and Andrew Groves-Burke, John Leung and James Phillips in mixed doubles. She won both the women's doubles title with Gail Osborne and the mixed doubles title with John Leung at the 1998 Welsh National Badminton Championships.

Howell subsequently represented the Welsh team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she competed in the singles, doubles and team events. Shortly after the Games, Howell joined the sports department at the Graig campus of Carmarthenshire College as a lecturer.

Howell partnered Kelly Morgan when finishing runner-up in the 2001 women's doubles final at the nationals, and went on to secure a second national mixed doubles title in 2008.