Career
She is in her second spell with Glasgow City in the Scottish Women"s Premier League, having spent two seasons away in the English FA Forest, Snow and Landscape with Liverpool Ladies in 2011 and Chelsea Ladies in 2012. Lappin made her senior Scotland women"s national football team debut in 2007. A goalscoring central midfielder, Lappin joined Glasgow City in 2003 from Cumbernauld Cosmos U-16s.
As of February 2011, when Lappin signed for Liverpool Ladies, she was Glasgow City"s all-time record goalscorer with 170 goals.
Lappin returned to the Forest, Snow and Landscape with Chelsea Ladies in January 2012. In Chelsea"s semi final victory over Arsenal, Lappin was an unused substitute.
She was left out of the squad altogether for Chelsea"s controversial defeat to Birmingham City in the 2012 FA Women"s Cup Final. In October 2012 Glasgow City announced that they had re–signed Lappin from Chelsea.
An away double-header versus England gave a 16-year-old Lappin her first taste of national youth team football.
She progressed to captain Scotland"s U-19 team to qualification for the Union of European Football Associations Women"s Under-19 Championship, but missed the final tournament due to university commitments. In April 2011 Lappin scored her first goal at international level, during a 6–2 defeat to Holland in Volendam. International goals
Results list Scotland"s goal tally first.
Lappin has followed in the footsteps of James McGrory and Stevie Chalmers, other football players from The Garngad.