Badenoch & Strathspey Ladies Shinty Club

Badenoch & Strathspey

Full name

Gaelic name

Comann Camanachd Boireannaich Bhaideanach agus Shrath Spe

Founded

2008

Ground

The Eilan & The Dell

Manager

Jane Nicol

League

National League One

2014

4th

Home colours

Away colours

Not to be confused with the men's shinty team, Strathspey Camanachd.

Badenoch & Strathspey Ladies Shinty Club is a shinty club based in the area of Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland.

The club fields one side, in the National League. They won the Valerie Fraser Trophy in 2013.

History

Badenoch is a traditionallty strong area of shinty with Kingussie Camanachd and Newtonmore Camanachd Clubs being strong forces in the men's game. However, there was no permamanet presence for women's shinty in the area after the shortlived Kingussie women's team folded in 2004 until the B&S was set up in 2008.^[1] The club uses both of the male team's grounds and is therefore not affiliated with one club in particular.

The club has swiftly developed and has provided internationalists to the Scottish Women's Team. The club has won a lot of trophies and plaudits in a short time.^[2] The club stepped up to the National Division in 2010 and performed admirably despite finishing fourth out of four teams.^[3]

The club dropped into the North Division Two and although they were very strong, they still required a play-off to win the division in March 2012 against Glengarry's second team. B&S had already secured promotion to the National League as Glengarry were ineligible for promotion due to their first team already playing in the league.

In the 2013 Valerie Fraser Trophy Final, against a highly fancied Glasgow Mid Argyll side, B&S upset the odds with a 3-1 victory, capped by the winning goal of Jane Nicol who had helped set up the club in the final game of her career.

Strathspey Camanachd are setting up a women's team in 2015, whether this will impact upon the name of the club remains to be seen.

References

External links

Badenoch & Strathspey @ the WCA

Shinty

Senior teams	Aberdeen University Aberdour Ballachulish Beauly Boleskine Bute Caberfeidh Col-Glen Dunoon Fort William Glasgow Mid Argyll Glengarry Glenorchy Glenurquhart Inveraray Inverness Kilmallie Kilmory Kingussie Kinlochshiel Kyles Athletic Lewis Lochaber Lochcarron Lochside Rovers Lovat Newtonmore Oban Oban Celtic Oban Lorn Skye Strathglass Strathspey Tayforth Taynuilt

Former Teams	Edinburgh East Lothian Forth Furnace Glasgow Cowal Nairnshire Naver Athletic Strathclyde Police Northallerton

Non-league and University teams	Ardnamurchan Caithness Cornwall Dundee University Edinburgh University Glasgow University Kincraig Kinlochbervie Kintyre Lochbroom London Milngavie & Bearsden Robert Gordon University Scots St Andrews University Strachur & District Uist

Women's shinty	Aberdour Ardnamurchan Badenoch & Strathspey Cowal and Bute Inverness Dunadd Glasgow Mid Argyll Glengarry Lewis Lochaber Lovat Oban Lorn Strathglass Strathspey Skye Tir Conaill Harps

Competitions	Camanachd Cup Premier Division League System Grand Slam Macaulay Cup Sutherland Cup Balliemore Cup MacTavish Cup Glasgow Celtic Society Cup Strathdearn Cup Bullough Cup Mod Cup Valerie Fraser Trophy Lovat Cup London Shield Littlejohn Vase Fingal Memorial Shield Albert Smith Medal

See also	Camanachd Association Composite rules shinty–hurling Shinty/Hurling International Series Shinty in the United States English Shinty Association Scotland national shinty team English Shinty Team Alba Schools Camanachd Association Women's shinty Clash of the Ash Iomain SWAGs University shinty

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