Susan Egelstaff
Sports Journalist and Writer at The Herald (Scotland)
Was a 2012 Olympian and 2 x Commonwealth Games medallist🏸 Now a sports writer and columnist at The Herald 👩🏻💻 And co-host of The Inside Track Podcast
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff
It was quite a contrast for the Scot who, just a few years earlier, had established herself as the fastest Scottish woman in history and was, it seemed, on her way to becoming a truly world class sprinter. But just as she was peaking, the worst of luck struck Rees. In the summer of 2023, only a few months after setting a new Scottish indoor 60m record (she was already Scottish 100m record holder), Rees tore her hamstring.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff
The diver, unsurprisingly, was a phenomenon at those Olympic Games becoming, as he had, one of Team GB’s youngest-ever Olympians. In fact, even prior to Beijing 2008, he’d already been in the spotlight for a number of years. Such a precocious talent was the Englishman, he was being interviewed by the BBC aged just 11 and qualified for the Olympics aged only 13.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff
And secondly, she’ll almost certainly never tackle a marathon that challenges her as much as her debut did. McColgan has a stellar record on both the track and the road, but having decided she was going to move up to the marathon, it took her literally years to reach the start line. A number of injuries, including knee surgery in late-2023, served to delay and further delay her marathon debut. But finally, at the London Marathon in April of this year, McColgan ran her first marathon.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff
The coaching world is well and truly dominated by men. Yes, there’s pockets in which female coaches are more commonplace - invariably it’s within women’s sport - but on the whole, coaching remains a man’s game. The need for more female coaches was brought into the spotlight this week with the launch of Judy Murray’s ‘Learn to Lead’ initiative, which aims to “equip and empower young girls to become Scotland’s next generation of sporting leaders”.
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3 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff
“It’s when you're under the lights that you really find out what people are talking about when they're talking about the pros,” the 25-year-old says. “The professionals is completely different to the amateurs and sometimes you need to go backwards to go forward. I had felt like I was stuck in a little bit of a rut in training but then, and I don't know why, the penny dropped and I feel like I've really pushed on recently.
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RT @heraldscotland: Why are female coaches still an endangered species? @SusanEgelstaff ✍️ https://t.co/AFw9g07iP9
Why are female coaches still an endangered species? My @heraldscotland column https://t.co/3OldW9n1fr