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UWS graduate helps Troy University Women’s Basketball Team win the Championship

25Feb

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UWS graduate helps Troy University Women’s Basketball Team win the Championship

From East Kilbride in Scotland to Alabama in the United States, Neil Harrow’s degree in Sport Coaching at University of the West of Scotland (UWS) has taken him far. We find out about his globetrotting career and recent Championship title with Troy University Women’s basketball team. Though it’s a long way from his days at UWS, where he graduated in 2010 with a BSc in Sport Coaching, alumnus Neil Harrow constantly uses the skills he learnt at UWS in his job as Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Troy University, Alabama. Neil began his seventh season at Troy in 2021-22 and has just helped guide the Trojans to their fifth Sun Belt Conference Championship in his seven seasons with them. Neil, who lends his expertise with both the guards and forwards, has been a vital part in creat...

Graduate and badminton star sets up new venture to ‘give something back’

Olympian and UWS alumna Kirsty Gilmour has announced a social enterprise venture “to give something back to badminton”. Kirsty is launching Badminton Academy Social Enterprise, or BASE, which will be open to anyone interested in the sport. “It’s going to be a social enterprise and a place that is completely inclusive for everyone from all walks of life, to all budget requirements, and hopefully it’s really accessible for anyone who wants to be a part of badminton,” she told the Daily Record. Kirsty will set-up the social enterprise with her Uncle David and other partner Andrew. “I’ve been thinking about something along these lines for a while, but it was really just from chatting with my uncle David and Andrew, and we’re all really passionate about it." Ranked in the top 30 in the...

Two former students celebrate 28 years of marriage thanks to their studies at UWS

Two former students at Paisley College of Technology (now UWS) have recently celebrated 28 years of marriage thanks to their studies. Jonathan Reid BSc Industrial Engineering (1988) and Jacqueline Reid BA Applied Social Studies Little did Jonathan and Jacqueline know that when they chose to study in Paisley that they would meet their life partner, and were it not for a party in their student accommodation, life might have been different for both of them. Jonathan said: “I was in my final year of an Industrial Engineering Honours degree and Jackie was in the first year of her BA Applied Social Studies degree and we both lived in the same block of flats on Lady Lane right next to the Paisley Campus. The flats had just been renovated and we were the first ones in that year.” ...