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Blog 135: Kasia Nightingale: Playing, Refereeing and Building the Future of Handball

Interview and article produced by SW/S Digital Committee member, Faatima Gardee. Recently, I spoke to Kasia Nightingale, a player, referee and committee member of Tryst 77, a handball club based in Cumbernauld about her journey with handball as well as the club’s outstanding achievements and progress. Before this article, I admittedly knew very little about handball and I figure that this might be the case for a few readers, so I’d like to start by briefly introducing the history and rules of the sport. Handball was first played in 1917, developed from an outdoor variation. There are two teams of seven players including a goalkeeper, the game is two thirty-minute halves…
Emma Logan
February 16, 2026
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Blog 134: Fit for Girls Sharing and Learning Event: A Celebration of Young Leaders in Sport

This week's blog comes from Faatima Gardee, a member of the SW/S Digital Committee as well as a being a Fit for Girls Tutor. The programme Fit for Girls was created by sportscotland and the Youth Sport Trust to inspire and empower girls. Fit for Girls tutors facilitate a safe space where girls can share their journey and barriers in sport and develop leadership skills. The programme has existed since 2008 and has gone through a number of iterations to become what it is now - a two-part workshop delivered by tutors who are young people themselves, creating a peer-led, friendly…
Emma Logan
February 11, 2026