All the great sports like to think they were born somewhere: golf at St Andrews, lawn tennis at Edgbaston, baseball at New York's Knickerbocker club.
The truth isn't that simple. Marked baptisms in sport are rare.
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It is another of life's little ironies that Shepherd has been left self funding her imminent international sporting career.
She works as a case officer for the Lottery Sports Fund at the Scottish Sports Council.
She works as a case officer for the Lottery Sports Fund at the Scottish Sports Council.