Cameron Pilley
Cameron Pilley (squash) is among a handful of squash players to win gold medals at three consecutive Commonwealth Games, having claimed the mixed doubles with Kasey Brown (2010) and Donna Lobban (2018), and men’s doubles with David Palmer OAM in 2014. The former world top-20 player was unlucky to make it four from four in Birmingham, losing the men’s doubles quarter-final with Rhys Dowling to the eventual gold medallists. He also finished 4th in the mixed doubles with Donna Lobban, losing the bronze-medal play-off to the Indian pair they had beaten in the gold-medal match on the Gold Coast four years earlier. He also owns men’s doubles bronze with Ryan Cuskelly from Delhi 2010 and mixed doubles bronze from Glasgow 2014 with Kasey Brown. Hailing from Yamba on the NSW north coast, Pilley starting playing at his parent’s squash courts. He attended the Australian Institute of Sport from 2001 until 2005 working with Australian legends Geoff Hunt and Rodney Martin. Pilley won the Australian under-19 title twice before moving to the senior circuit at 18. He reached a career-high world ranking of 11 in January 2011 and later that year set a world record by hitting a squash ball at 281kph. He has also claimed three world doubles titles, winning the men’s in 2017 and 2019 with Ryan Cuskelly, as well as the mixed title with his cousin Donna Lobban in 2019. Winner of 13 professional titles during his career, Pilley announced his retirement in December 2019 and now coaches squash in upstate New York in the United States.
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