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Blog 136: How Soul Padel Is Creating Space for Women in Sport

This week’s blog comes from Craig Milne at Soul Padel, a company preparing to launch its first Scottish venue in Braehead. Craig shares how the team hopes to introduce more women to padel and create welcoming opportunities to get involved in the sport through initiatives such as Soul Sisters. __________________________________________________________________________________ Across many sports, participation among women and girls still lags behind that of men. As Scottish Women in Sport and others have consistently highlighted, the barriers are often not about ability or interest, but confidence, accessibility and the challenge of finding environments that feel welcoming for beginners. Many women are…
Emma Logan
March 19, 2026
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Blog 131: Are the girls allowed?

Nick Brown has enlisted the help of one of Scotland's most successful semi-pro teams - Hamilton Academics WFC. His book tells the story of the slow uptake of women's football in Scotland in comparison to the rest of the UK. And he's written this week to share the sponsorship opportunities coming up for the team.
scottishwomeninsport
October 8, 2025
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Blog 128: Finding Space for Girls in Urban Sports

Susannah Dale is the marketing manager for a physical literacy charity based in Glasgow called Movement Park. Their goal within the community is to develop physical literacy through the power of play, through parkour, skateboarding and cycling. We heard from Susannah about their upcoming skateboarding course to encourage more girls to take up the sport and what their plans for the near future are.
scottishwomeninsport
August 1, 2025
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Blog 127: A Highland Games Journey Across Continents with Dr Kristen Rumley

Scotland has been celebrating for hundreds of years with highland games. A combination of athletic competition and community, that has spread across the world. We've had Dr Kristen Rumley put together her experience of competing in the USA at the highland games there and she shared a bit about how she will be travelling to Scotland in August to compete against the best female athletes in the world.
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Blog 123: A year on with the BMC Cup

Back in 2023, we spoke to Ali Campbell who alongside his brothers started the BMC Cup. That was the first year they introduced a girl's category to their competition. We checked in with them a year on to see how things were going and how they've grown the BMC since.
Faatima Zahra Gardee
April 24, 2025
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Blog 117: Sports and Cerebral Palsy

With Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month coming up, we invited Jennifer LaRocco from Cerebral Palsy Guidance to share a little bit about her own experience growing up with CP, and how sports is becoming more accessible to people with CP.
scottishwomeninsport
February 5, 2025