#SheCanSheWill: Celebrating ten years of content in Scottish Women and Girls in Sport
Inspirational: Read our feature on Yvonne McNairn
Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week is with us for 2026 as we seek to shine a light on key work and examples across athletics in Scotland.
The campaign celebrates a 10-year milestone under the theme Celebrating a Decade of the Week with the hashtag #SheCanSheWill.
Led by Active Scotland, the initiative aims to boost female visibility, participation, and leadership across all levels of sport and physical activity throughout Scotland.
Those are ongoing goals for all at scottishathletics and our channels should reflect that on a very regular basis for the rest of the year.
To mark that commitment and celebrate the week. we’ve picked out content over the past few months to help highlight . . .
As 2025 drew to a close, we launched a superb short documentary entitled ‘The One About Female Coaches‘.
The film featured Edinburgh bases pole vault coach, Kirsty Davis, and Aberdeen based endurance coach, Nichola Crawford.
Giffnock North AC Masters athlete Hilary Carswell has been on a physical and emotional journey since a cancer diagnosis in 2023.
Hilary’s determination to keep on running captured our admiration via this feature
International athletes Kirsty Law and Kathryn Christie retired from competitive athletics after medal winning performances at our 4J Senior Champs in Aberdeen in August.
Both have been inspiring role models and offered advice to women and girls in sport via our interviews.
From high jump to international hill running sounds like quite a leap but that is exactly the career progression made by Emily McNicol.
The Law and District AAC athlete spoke to feature writer Katy Barden to explain why there need not be a ‘right route’ in athletics but many different paths . . .
Eilish McColgan’s role model status is evident year in, year out and her ‘Giving Back to Track’ programme is specifically geared at young Scottish girls.
Again this year Eilish has been handing out grants to Scottish female athletes aged 16–22, offering a meaningful boost to those competing in the various disciplines across our sport.
Melanie Woods won not one but two gold medals in wheelchair racing at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Melanie and Joanna Robertson took to the track for Team Scotland at Scotstoun and later spoke to us about how high level Para performances can show others a pathway via clubs.
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