Lisa Norman MacColl (née Norman) (born 1979) is a

shinty Shinty ( gd, camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, an ...

player and manager from Kincardine,

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...

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. She is a Scottish International but is most renowned for having founded and developed

Aberdour Shinty Club Aberdour Shinty Club is a shinty club which plays in Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. It is the only senior Shinty Club in Fife and was founded in 2001. In 2011, the club entered two teams into senior competition. Its first team competing in Marine Ha ...

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Biography

Lisa was born and brought up in Fife but a summer spent in

Tighnabruaich Tighnabruaich; (; gd, Taigh na Bruaich) is a village on the Cowal peninsula, on the western arm of the Kyles of Bute in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. In 2011 the population was 660. It is west of Glasgow and north of the Isle of Arran. Tighnabru ...

sailing introduced her to shinty, which she then played at University level and for

Glasgow Mid-Argyll Glasgow Mid Argyll Shinty Club (GMA) is a shinty club from Glasgow, Scotland. It is the only senior side in Glasgow and was founded in 1928. They have two men's sides and two women's sides. All GMA teams play at Peterson Park (Yoker / Garscadde ...

. 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 St Andrews and a short lived team in Dunfermline in the early 1990s) for a few hundred years. This short six-week trial was met with a great deal of excitement and with parents pressing for it to continue it developed into the modern Aberdour Shinty Club with teams at all age levels and in the women's game too. Her achievement has been acknowledged by several award

as well as several media appearances, most prominently in the "Caman" documentary series on

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Norman-MacColl plays

for Aberdour in the men's leagues but also plays women's shinty for

. 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 Fife Council is the local authority for the Fife area of Scotland and is the third largest Scottish council, with 75 elected council members. Councillors are generally elected every five years. At the 2012 election there were 78 councillors ele ...

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External links

BBC Article on Lisa NormanVideo of Lisa Norman on BBC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Norman, Lisa Shinty players Living people Sportspeople from Fife 1979 births