Laura Massaro titles at once. She is also a three-time silver medallist for England in Commonwealth Games. Massaro has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year awards. She won the WISPA Player of the Year award in 2011. She won the US Open and the Cleveland Classic in 2011, the Sharm El Sheikh Open in 2010, and the Monte Carlo Classic in 2008. Massaro also won the British National Squash Championships in 2011, defeating Jenny Duncalf in the final 7–11, 11–9, 7–11, 11–7, 11–2. She had previously finished runner-up at the championships in 2008 (losing in the
Karen Thuesen Massaro and form in complex ways. In 1966, Massaro graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo with a BS in art education. The following year, she continued her graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Initially she completed schooling for her teaching license and became an elementary school art teacher in Warwick, New York from 1966–67. Massaro then went back to school and earned her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1972. While pursuing her MFA, Massaro began experimenting with clay. After receiving her master's degree, she began teaching ceramics to her