Kirsty McConnell

Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Glasgow, Scotland

In High School - Member of the Scotland U18 training squad in 2005... Played for the U16 national team in 2003... Played for the 2005 `A' National Plate Final runner-up and the 2004 Scotland Interdistrict champion Griffnock Hockey Club... Received the 2005 Outstanding Sporting Achievement Award... Won the Bob Williamson Trophy for Outstanding Sporting Achievement in 2003.

Personal - Full name is Kirsty Megan McConnell... Daughter of Christine and Jonathan McConnell... Birthdate is November 12, 1987... Has not declared a major... Her family plays rugby for a Glasgow team... Post college ambition is to work in coaching or sports journalism... Best moment of her athletic career was being selected for the Scotland U16 team... Advice she would give a young player is to try and get peripheral vision... Her hobbies include rugby, golf, sailing and reading... Her earliest sports memory was standing at the sideline watching her dad play rugby.