Catalina Peláez

Catalina Peláez
Nationality:	Colombia
Birthday:	4th September 1991
Size:	165 cm
Weight:	58 kg
1st professional season:	2010
Playing hand:	Right
successes
Career finals:	2
Best placement:	56 (October 2015)
Current placement:	71
Last update of the infobox: October 1st, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Catalina Peláez Casasfranco (born September 4, 1991 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian squash player .

Career

Catalina Peláez began her professional career in the 2010 season on the WSA World Tour . She reached her highest place in the world rankings with rank 56 in October 2015. So far she has been in a final on the World Tour twice.

With the Colombian national team , she took part in the World Cup in 2012 and 2014 . She qualified for the first time in 2012 for the main draw of the individual world championships. In the first round she lost to Laura Massaro in three sets. At the Pan American Games in 2007 she won the bronze medal with the team. In 2011 she secured the silver medal both with the team and in the doubles competition with Silvia Angulo Rugeles . Four years later she won bronze again in both competitions, this time in doubles with Laura Tovar . In 2019 , she won the mixed gold medal in Lima and again bronze with the team . She represented Colombia at the 2013 World Games and reached the round of 16, in which she lost to Camille Serme . In 2013, 2014 and 2018 she was Pan American champion in mixed doubles with Miguel Ángel Rodríguez . At the South American Games 2010 she won gold in the doubles competition with Silvia Angulo Rugeles as well as with the team.

She majored in Studio Arts and Italian minor from Trinity College . She was also active in college squash for Trinity.

successes

• Vice-Pan American Champion with the team: 2017
• Mixed Pan American Champion: 2013, 2014 and 2018 (with Miguel Ángel Rodríguez )
• Pan American Games : 1 × gold (mixed 2019), 2 × silver (doubles and team 2011), 4 × bronze (doubles 2015, team 2007, 2015 and 2019)
• South American Games: 5 × gold (singles, mixed and team 2018, doubles and team 2010)
• Central America and Caribbean Games : 1 × gold (doubles 2010), 5 × silver (mixed 2018, team 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018), 5 × bronze (singles 2010, 2014 and 2018, doubles 2006, mixed 2014)

Web links

• Player profile at psaworldtour.com (English)
• Player profile at squashinfo.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalina Pelaez. In: bantamsport.com. Trinity College , accessed July 30, 2018 .