Carin Clonda

Carin Lydia Clonda is an Australian former professional squash player and sports administrator, born on 1 March 1961 in the Sydney suburb of Manly to an Estonian mother and a Romanian father. She began playing at thirteen, won the Australian Under-16 title and in 1978 took the New South Wales and Australian junior women's championships in three age groups. After eighteen months away for asthma treatment she returned and in 1979 won the British Junior Women's Open, the de facto under-19 world title. From 2005 to 2009 she was chief executive of NSW Squash, and in 2010 she founded the Australian Squash Group with David Palmer. She was the first professional squash player to come out as gay and received the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and the Sue Fear Award in 2008.