Lisa Norman
Lisa Norman MacColl (née Norman) (born 1979) is a shinty player and manager from Kincardine, Fife, Scotland. She is a Scottish International but is most renowned for having founded and developed Aberdour Shinty Club in 2001.
Biography
Lisa was born and brought up in Fife but a summer spent in Tighnabruaich sailing introduced her to shinty, which she then played at University level and for Glasgow Mid-Argyll.
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 developed into the modern Aberdour Shinty Club with teams at all age levels and in the women's game as well.
Her achievement has been acknowledged by several awards [link removed] as well as several media appearances, most prominently in the "Caman" documentary series on BBC Alba.
Norman-MacColl plays shinty for Aberdour in the men's leagues but also plays women's shinty for Glasgow Mid-Argyll. 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.