Career

She started playing the sport at her local club in Lillington, Leamington Spa. She is currently the highest ranked senior woman in English table tennis and 166th in the world. She is sponsored by local firms Wright Hassell, Building and Plumbing Supplies and, in 2011, sports betting community site OLBG.com.

Kelly began playing table tennis aged 8 years old at Lillington Free Church table tennis club, inspired by her mother Lynn Bolitho, a former county-level table tennis player.

In 2000, she represented England at the English Schools Championships. At the age of 13, she was invited to live and train at the National Training centre in Nottingham where she was coached by Alan Cooke before relocating to the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield

She also gained a Ladies Doubles Bronze Medal at the 2009 Commonwealth Championships, a team silver at the 2013 Commonwealth Championships and a Division Two Gold Medal at the 2008 World Team Championships in China.

Funding cuts threatened her chance to compete at the London 2012 Olympics until her plight was aired on British Broadcasting Corporation radio and responded to by OLBG.com. lieutenant was announced on 30 May 2012 that Sibley would be representing her country at the games where she competed in the team event, losing to North of Korea in the opening round.

In June 2015 she was part of the Great Britain table tennis squad which competed at the inaugural European Games in Baku.

Achievements

• Sibley won the singles, girls doubles and mixed doubles at the United Kingdom Junior Championships and has represented England at senior level at the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and World Championships. Kelly represented England at the Commonwealth Games three times. Once in Melbourne, Australia (2006) and again in Delhi, India (2010) where she finished in fourth place in the team women"s event. At Glasgow 2014, she won her first Commonwealth Games medal when she took bronze in the mixed doubles alongside Danny Reed. Kelly won 10 consecutive international matches at the 2011 European Championships in Poland and promoted the England Women's team to the top tier. Kelly has won national singles titles at Cadet, Junior, U21 and Senior level, girls’ doubles titles at U12, Cadet and Junior levels, women's doubles at Senior level and mixed doubles at Junior and Senior Levels. She is the reigning women"s singles national champion (March 2015).