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Denise Austin was an England and GBR beach volleyball playerborn to parents George Robinson "Robin" Tuohey and Gladys Dunne in Haslingden, Lancashire. The Tuohey family located to Devon aged two and discovered volleyball at the North Devon College in 1984. She represented England Volleyball as a junior in 1986 and 1987 and was part of the Senior Squad from 1987 to 1988. She retired from indoor volleyball in 1988 and began playing beach volleyball in 1988 as part of the SW Pro series. Denise started her international beach volleyball career in Perth, West Australia on the pro beach tour in 1990 competing alongside Puerto Rican beach volleyball player and now coach Angel Pena Denise competed internationally from 1995 through to 2015 and retired from competing domestically in 2023, with over 100 caps playing beach volleyball for England. Denise Austin established her own coaching business in 2001 Beach Volleyball Inc organising small coaching camps for players, as well as writing the Coaching Coaches award for Volleyball England, where she was a staff tutor from 2001 until 2019. Denise currently works as a freelance commentator for Beach Volleyball World, the CEV and during the Paris Olympics for the Olympic Broadcast Service as a beach volleyball commentator. Denise now lives in Lagos, Portugal.