Lisa Norman

Background

Lisa was born and brought up in Fife but a summer spent in Tighnabruaich sailing introduced her to shinty, which she then played at University level and for Glasgow Mid-Argyll.

Career

She is a Scottish International but is most renowned for having founded and developed Aberdour Shinty Club in 2001. As part of her University sports degree, she was required to introduce a new sport to an area. She chose to introduce shinty in Aberdour Primary School, shinty having been moribund in Fife (apart from at the University of Street Andrews and a short lived team in Dunfermline in the early 1990s) for a few hundred years.

Norman-MacColl plays shinty for Aberdour in the men"s leagues but also plays women"s shinty for Glasgow Mid-Argyll.

She also manages the Aberdour first team As shinty is an amateur sport, Norman-MacColl is employed as a sports development officer by Fife Council.

Achievements

• Her achievement has been acknowledged by several awards as well as several media appearances, most prominently in the "Caman" documentary series on British Broadcasting Corporation Alberta