Born in 2002 and having begun playing squash competitively at the age of 9, Barbadian Meagan Best has accumulated history-making records at the local, regional and international level.

Throughout her squash career, Meagan dominated the Junior Caribbean circuit and has also been recorded as the youngest player to win Senior National and Regional titles in the Caribbean.  Her dominance in the Caribbean area over the years provided her with the drive and confidence to compete internationally at the Canadian and US Junior Open tournaments where she was ranked as a top player in her age groups at those championships which drew entries from every corner of the Globe. To date, she is the only Barbadian and Caribbean female to have podium finishes at these prestigious tournaments. Along with her history-making accolades of winning Canadian Junior Open and US Junior Open Squash titles, she has also claimed a Canadian Junior Open silver medal, as well as a silver and three (3) bronze medals at US Junior Opens over the years.

To complement her US and Canadian titles, she has amassed two (2) Caribbean Senior Titles, four (4) Barbados Senior National Titles, seven (7) Caribbean Junior Titles, and fifteen (15) Barbados Junior National Titles, as well as three (3) Gold and two (2) Silver Medals at Junior Pan American Squash Championships.  Meagan is currently Barbados’ undisputed top female squash player and has represented her Country at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games as well as the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games where she won the Women’s Plate and had the honour of being Barbados’ flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony of those games.

Meagan relocated to the USA in 2018 to attend high school at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut, where she earned two “Letters” in squash, and achieved a 29-2 record playing at the #1 String on their Girls Varsity Team, before graduating in 2020.  Her accomplishments playing US high school varsity squash include receiving consecutive US Squash “All American” awards in the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 High School Scholastic Squash leagues, and earning “First-Team All-NEPSAC” honours in the 2019-2020 New England Interscholastic Squash Association’s league.

Meagan matriculated at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2020 as a student-athlete and a member of their Cavaliers Women Varsity squash program. However, due to the COVID19 Pandemic, there was no US College Squash Association (CSA) competition during her 2020-2021 Freshman year.  Making her delayed collegiate debut and playing at the top of the ladder for the Cavaliers in the 2021-2022 collegiate squash season, she compiled a record of 13-6 to lead the Cavaliers in wins, and assisted the Virginia Women’s team in securing its highest ever team finish of a seventh national ranking. While doing so, Meagan accumulated history making results for UVA when she won the consolation plate of the women’s top division of the CSA’s National Collegiate Individual Championships to become the first female Cavalier to make the CSA’s “All-American First Team”.  She also became the first member of the Cavalier’s women’s program to achieve the Mid Atlantic Squash Association’s (MASC) “Women’s Rookie of Year” award. Additionally, Meagan was selected to the MASC’s All-Conference Women’s First Team, all the while maintaining strong academic performances to make the Dean’s list at UVA in the fall semester, and the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Academic Honor Roll for the second straight year.