Lyn Carpenter is an English netball

Netball

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 administrator and former representative player. Carpenter was the oldest player ever to be awarded a debut international cap in the England national netball team

England national netball team

The England national netball team represent England in international netball competition. The team are presently co-captained by Karen Atkinson and Sonia Mkoloma, and were coached by Australian Sue Hawkins through to the end of the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore...

, which she received in December 1997 at the age of 32. During her senior international career she amassed 33 international caps, winning bronze medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

1998 Commonwealth Games

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 in Kuala Lumpur and the 1999 Netball World Championships

1999 Netball World Championships

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 in New Zealand. She also represented Great Britain in basketball

Basketball

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 at the 1987 World Student Games

1987 Summer Universiade

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 in Zagreb. Carpenter currently serves as CEO of England Netball and Chairman of Netball Europe. Outside of netball, she has also worked for the Merton London Borough

London Borough of Merton

The London Borough of Merton is a borough in southwest London, England.The borough was formed under the London Government Act in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey...

Council as Head of Property and Leisure.