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Dr Jenny Clarke: croquet and the Large Hadron Collider

Christchurch’s Jenny Clarke has been the number one women’s croquet player in the world for most of the last 15 years. Dr Clarke is a senior lecturer in sports science at the University of Canterbury, where her work has included groundbreaking research using motion capture technology to assess wrist injury risk in the croquet swing. Clarke started playing croquet whilst studying for a PhD at Oxford University. She went on to work as a scientist searching for the ‘God particle’ at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

Jenny photographed at the Union Croquet Club at Hagley Park in Christchurch 2019.

Jenny captained the New Zealand team in the MacRobertson Shield (aka Association Croquet World Team Championship) in Mission Hills, California 2017.

in 2018 Jenny beat Australian Alison Sharpe to win the Australian Open Champs for the second time, She also won the doubles for the first time that year, and in 2019 won both titles again. There hasn't been a competition since.

Jenny after winnng the inaugural Association Croquet Women's World Championship in Melbourne.

Motion Capture analysis of a croquet swing.at the University of Canterbury Sport Science Lab,

The New Zealand team at CERN, 100m underground in the Large Hadron Collider tunnel in 2007.

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