UHI and HISA are celebrating the fantastic efforts of our women’s and men's shinty teams at the Littlejohn Vase in St Andrews yesterday. This is the second year UHI has competed, and we brought home incredible success again!
UHI and HISA are celebrating the fantastic efforts of our women’s and men's shinty teams at the Littlejohn Vase in St Andrews yesterday. This is the second year UHI has competed, and we brought home incredible success again!
Once again, the women conceded no goals against them, and narrowly missed out on winning the trophy when the final against Strathclyde went to penalties. The team went from strength to strength as the tournament progressed, with some incredible shinty skills on display from all players.
UHI Women’s Team player Rachel Cruikshank says:
“I thoroughly enjoy playing with the UHI team. As someone who grew up around shinty, the UHI team gave me the opportunity to become a part of a team as well as meet new people from all over the UHI campuses. Following on from the Littlejohn tournament last year, I ended up joining a ladies shinty club because of the lovely girls I met. Finishing in second place at the tournament this year was great for a team that hadn’t really trained together and this gives us something to work towards next year in the long run – onwards and upwards”.
After a shaky start to the tournament with a loss against University of Glasgow, the men’s team pulled it out the bag and delivered amazing results, facing Glasgow once more in the semi finals and flipping their earlier score for a 2-0 win for UHI. Beatin
g Strathclyde 1-0 in the final resulted in the Littlejohn Vase coming home to UHI for the second year in a row (and the second time UHI have ever entered the tournament).
A huge congratulations to all of our fantastic players, and to Amanda Fleet, our Sports Development Coordinator, the driving force behind UHI Shinty.
We would like to thank our sponsor, Kishorn Port and Dry Dock Ltd, for making this all possible with their continued support of the team. From entering into a sponsorship agreement with KPL in 2023, the development of shinty at UHI has been incredible. We’d also like to thank the University of Stirling for the loan of their players to the UHI teams.