Mhairi's background is in higher education and small business. She worked at Glasgow Caledonian University as a Lecturer in Hospitality & Marketing and she had a property development business in Scotland and the USA

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Mhairi has volunteered with Badminton Scotland for many years, including managing the hospitality suite at two world championships. She has played pickleball for 15 years, having caught the bug whilst holidaying in Florida.

Steph's background is in accountancy and project management for global companies and the further education sector. She has been on the board of many organisations, including Badminton Scotland Events and Ocean Youth Trust Scotland.

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Steph has volunteered at major badminton events , including three world championships. Steph has been playing pickleball  since 2008 and is excited to be part of a brand new association.

Juanita comes from a project management and events background, having worked at organisations including Sport England, Glasgow 2014 Ltd and the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. 

She has held voluntary roles with animal charities, LEAP Sports and girls' football coaching. She got the Pickleball bug in 2023 and hasn't looked back since.

Shona is a Chartered housing professional currently working as a senior advisor in the housing sector. She has previously been employed in a number of senior public policy, lobbying and communications roles, including in the Scottish and European Parliaments. 

Shona is also an experienced governing body member, currently serving as a trustee for a charity and having previously spent a number of years as a board director at a large credit union. 

She discovered pickleball on a road trip across America in 2022 and plays at every given opportunity

In her role of Coaching and Education Officer, she has developed the materials for the Ambassador and Club Coach awards. To date she has trained over 100 Ambassadors and 20 club coaches and now has a team of talented coaches who assist in the delivery of these awards. Nanette brings to this role a long history related to sport and activity. She began her career as a PE teacher and 50 years later she retired as Chair of Physical Activity for Health at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. Nanette received an MBE from the Queen in 2015 for services in Physical Activity for Health in Scotland.  She has over 300 peer reviewed publications and the 4th edition of the textbook she co-authors ‘The Psychology of Physical Activity for Health” was published in 2021. Helping Pickleball grow in Scotland is a new challenge which she is really enjoying! 

Adriana spent 41 years working in the NHS, where she helped to set up the Greater Glasgow Pharmacy Distribution Centre. She managed the IT and automated systems which included 45 staff and 9 robots!

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Adriana has volunteered at the 2017 Badminton World Championships and at the 2018 European Championships. She loves being retired because she can play lots of pickleball.

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Louise trained as a chartered accountant and left the profession after 10 years to run a small hotel in the Highlands with her husband.  After 25 years, they sold up and retired to Edinburgh in 2020 although Louise briefly came out of retirement to work for Scottish Student Sport for a season scheduling their fixtures.

For 15 years, Louise was a swimming volunteer in The North District and was very involved in her local club running swim meets and dealing with all the swimmers entries. An ex tennis player, she took up pickleball in 2018 at Nairn Sports Club and has spent the last year introducing pickleball to those in East Lothian and Edinburgh.

Anne Smillie is the retired Chief Executive of Badminton Scotland and was the longest serving Chief Executive in British sport.  Anne had a world wide reputation for event staging, and led the way in attracting and directing 4 World Championships and 3 European Championships.
Anne is a former member of the Badminton World Federation Council.  She was the first woman on the BWF Executive Board when she became its Chair of Events, and was involved in overseeing the arrangements for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.  She is a former founding member of the UK Sports Events Committee.  
Anne is  currently a Deputy Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire.

Sandra is a certified Coach who focuses on the wellbeing aspect of the game. She is passionate about inclusion and developed the Pickleball for Wellbeing concept which offers people of all ability levels opportunities to get active and socially connected in their local communities through a modified cooperative pickleball format. As a member of the Coach Development Team, Sandra helps deliver the Ambassador training, leads the CPD training for Pickleball for Wellbeing and co-delivers the Inclusive Practice CPD training in partnership with Scottish Disability Sport. She's a qualified Peer Support for Mental Health worker and a trained Health Issues in The Community facilitator.