Career
She also represented Great Britain at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. Aston began playing badminton at age nine. Her brother, Ross, was initially trying for the Welsh national team, and she only made the team as a result of accompanying him to the trials.
In 1999, Aston was voted Welsh Woman of the Year, and in 2002 she was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen"s Jubilee Birthday Honours List for "services to the community, especially through Sport, in South Wales".
Aston was born in Pontypridd and attended Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School. She has also been heavily involved in charity work, particularly relating to Down"s Syndrome, and was the patron of the Down"s Syndrome Association of Wales.