Shelley Kitchen

Shelley Kitchen, full name Shelley Celia Kitchen, is a New Zealand professional squash player, born on 2 December 1979 in Kaitaia. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne she beat the world number one Nicol David of Malaysia in the third-place match to win the women's singles bronze medal, and she also won a silver medal in the women's doubles with Tamsyn Leevey. Earlier that year the same pair won the women's doubles title at the World Doubles Squash Championships, and in 2004 she was runner-up in the mixed doubles there with Glen Wilson. She had her first child in February 2010, announced her retirement in December 2010 after an illness stopped her comeback for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to sport.