Debbie Brown
{{Short description|American tennis/ squash player/coach}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Debbie Brown
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1962}}
| birth_place = South Pasadena, California, US
| nationality = American
Irish
| alma_mater = Long Beach State University, California
| occupation = Multi-Racquets Sports Coach
}}
Debbie Brown (born 1962) is a multi-racquets coach in Dublin, Ireland. She is a former American college tennis and US National champion squash player. She currently coaches tennis, padel, and pickleball. She became an Irish citizen in 2024.
Personal life
She married her partner, a former Irish national squash champion on 18 April 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/our-wedding-story-the-brides-to-be-walked-to-white-wedding-1.2210874?mode=amp|title=Our wedding story: The brides-to-be walked to 'White Wedding'|website=www.irishtimes.com|access-date=2019-10-05}}
Brown is currently divorced as of 2022.
Career
She started her career as a tennis player and played for Padadena City College and California State University, Long Beach. Brown later pursued her career in the sport of squash at the age of 33.{{Cite web|url=https://www.noozhawk.com/article/071212_squash_pros_to_compete_world_masters|title=Local Squash Pros to Compete at World Masters Tournament|date=July 12, 2012|first=Orla|last=O'Doherty|website=www.noozhawk.com|language=en|access-date=2019-10-05}} She became a three time US National Champion in masters category. She has also featured in masters events in Portland, Oregon, (silver medalist) and in England and Australia.
Brown competed at the 2012 World Squash Masters in Melbourne, Australia, representing the US. She was the Executive Director of Santa Barbara School or Squash {{Cite web|url=http://www.squashlink.org/staff-and-board|title=Staff & Board - Debbie Brown|last=|first=|date=|website=Squash Link|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702071336/http://www.squashlink.org:80/staff-and-board |archive-date=2017-07-02 |access-date=2019-10-05}} She served as an assistant squash coach at the Santa Barbara Athletic Club for more than two decades.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hellopadel.org/padel/new/Look-Debbie-up-and-have-a-game-|title=Look Debbie up and have a game!|website=www.hellopadel.org|language=en|access-date=2019-10-05|archive-date=1 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101192439/http://www.hellopadel.org/padel/new/Look-Debbie-up-and-have-a-game-|url-status=usurped}}
Brown now serves as the Tennis Director at Malahide Castle Tennis in the Malahide Castle grounds, County Dublin. She is also the Padel Director at Portmarnock Sports & Leisure and conducts Adult Education pickleball classes in Portmarnock Community School.
Brown has represented Ireland in the squash Home Internationals and currently represents Ireland on the Irish National Padel Vets Team where she has competed in Four Nations and European Team Championships. In 2023 she and her partner, Marjorie Croke, came in 4th in the Open Pairs in the European Championships. Brown is the 2023 Irish National Champion in pickleball in the 4.5+ Open division with her partner, Sinead Ragonessi Browne.
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Category:American female tennis players
Category:American female squash players
Category:Irish female squash players
Category:American LGBTQ sportspeople
Category:University of Southern California alumni
Category:People from South Pasadena, California
Category:Sportspeople from Los Angeles County, California
Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people
Category:Long Beach State Beach women's tennis players
Category:20th-century American sportswomen
Category:20th-century Irish sportswomen
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