Rebecca Barnett
{{short description|New Zealand squash player}}
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Rebecca Barnett is a New Zealand professional squash player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.squashinfo.com/player/5980-rebecca-barnett|title=Squash Info {{!}} Rebecca Barnett {{!}} Squash|website=www.squashinfo.com|access-date=2019-10-04}} She represents New Zealand national women's squash team in international competitions. Her twin brother Jonathan Barnett is also a squash player.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11478235|title=Squash: Pair lived up to favouritism|newspaper=The New Zealand Herald|date=2015-07-08|access-date=2019-10-04|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}} She is also one of the prominent squash players to have represented New Zealand in international level.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/sport/10599321/Barnett-claims-NZ-womens-squash-team-spot|title=Barnett claims NZ women's squash team spot|website=Stuff|date=9 October 2014 |language=en|access-date=2019-10-04}}
Career
Barnett developed an interest initially in advertising during the early part of her career as a youngster. She also took an interest in broadcasting, however she changed gears to pursue her higher studies at the Massey University in Palmerston North.{{Cite web|url=http://stoppress.co.nz/features/tvnz-nz-marketing-awards-2018-rebecca-barnett-goes-strength-strength-win-rookie-marketer-year|title=TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards 2018: Rebecca Barnett goes from strength-to-strength to win Rookie Marketer of the Year|date=2018-09-26|website=stoppress.co.nz|language=en|access-date=2019-10-04}} She also pursued her career as a squash player playing for the Lower Hutt Mitchell Park Squash Clib while spending her first year as a college going student at the Massey University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/hutt-news/sport/8807651/Barnett-picked-for-New-Zealand|title=Barnett picked for New Zealand|website=Stuff|date=July 2013 |language=en|access-date=2019-10-04}} She and her brother competed at the 2012 New Zealand Junior Open and interestingly both of them emerged as winners in their respective singles events.{{Cite web|url=https://www.squashnz.co.nz/news/index.cfm?content_id=408|title=Squash NZ - Home Page of Squash in New Zealand, Play Squash, Get Fit Playing Squash Have fun squash, Latest News|website=www.squashnz.co.nz|access-date=2019-10-04}}
She emerged at the youth level notably at the 2013 Women's World Junior Squash Championships where she reached quarter finals and for her reputed performance in the competition, she was named in the New Zealand squad for the 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships. She also made few international appearances since 2011 prior to her maiden Women's World Team Squash Championships. However New Zealand were knocked out of the first round of the tournament. In 2018, she was also awarded the Rookie Marketer of the Year by Loyalty New Zealand.
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Category:New Zealand female squash players
Category:Massey University alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Sportspeople from the Wellington Region
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