Badenoch & Strathspey Ladies Shinty Club

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Badenoch & Strathspey
Full nameBadenoch & Strathspey Ladies Shinty Club
Gaelic nameComann Camanachd Boireannaich Bhaideanach agus Shrath Spe
NicknameBadenoch Ladies
Founded2008
Ground The Eilan & The Dell
ManagerScott Campbell
LeagueNational League One
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Badenoch & Strathspey Ladies Shinty Club is a shinty club based in the area of Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland.

Shinty Team game with ball and sticks

Shinty is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, and was even played for a considerable time in northern England and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated.

Badenoch traditional district in the Highland region of Scotland

Badenoch is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorms and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampians, and on the west by Lochaber. The capital of Badenoch is Kingussie.

Strathspey, Scotland area in the Highlands of Scotland

Strathspey is the area around the strath of the River Spey, Scotland, in both the Moray council area and the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area of Highland.

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The club fields one side, in the National League. They won the Valerie Fraser Trophy in 2013 in a 3-1 win against Glasgow Mid Argyle and managed to win it again in 2018 with a 4-1 victory against Skye Camanachd Ladies.

Valerie Fraser Trophy

The Valerie Fraser Camanachd Cup also known as the Valerie Fraser Trophy or the Women's Camanachd Cup is the premier trophy in Women's shinty and is currently sponsored by Peter Gow. It is played on a knock-out basis by the teams in the National Division 1 League and is administered by the Women's Camanachd Association. The current holders are Badenoch & Strathspey.

History

Badenoch is a traditionally 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.

Kingussie Camanachd

Kingussie Camanachd is a shinty team from Kingussie, Scotland and according to the Guinness Book of Records 2005, is world sport's most successful sporting team of all time, winning 20 consecutive leagues and going 4 years unbeaten at one stage in the early 1990s. The club most recently won the Camanachd Cup in 2014, but was almost relegated in 2015, a final-day playoff victory against Kilmallie their salvation. The second team plays in North Division 1 and won the Sutherland Cup in 2011.

Newtonmore Camanachd Club

Newtonmore Camanachd Club is a shinty club from Newtonmore, Badenoch, Scotland. It is historically the game's most successful side, having won the Camanachd Cup a record 33 times and are present holders. They won the Marine Harvest Premier Division seven years in a row beginning in 2010.

Womens shinty

Women's shinty is a sport, played almost entirely within Scotland, identical to the men's game – with the same rules, same sized pitch and same equipment. However, its history is significantly different. Social pressures – along with the broader game's self-image – resulted in a largely hidden history until comparatively recently.

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.


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