Meakins is 2010 Sports Personality

Karen Meakins is the National Sports Council’s 2010 Sports Personality Of The Year.
She was named earlier today as the award’s 28th winner by chairman of the National Sports Council (NSC), former Olympian Seibert Straughn.
Meakins, who moved to Barbados from England in 2000, had her brightest day in August when she earned a silver medal at the tenth World Squash Federation’s Masters Championships in Cologne, Germany.
Her efforts also allowed Barbados to earn the overall Caribbean title at that event.
Just weeks before her performance in Germany, Meakins also dominated the squash courts in Bogota, Colombia at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, earning silver – the first ever for Barbados in the sport – and also leading the women’s team to a bronze medal finish.