Girls basketball is booming at Edinburgh Kool Kats where a recently formed under-12 team now has 31 players from P5-P7 on the rota.
The team are coached at Holyrood HS by Broughton HS PE teacher Sarah Thomas along with adult volunteer Claire Patterson with input from Kool Kats coach Mhari Campbell who is keen to give credit to her two associates.
Mhari says: “My involvement is largely through the junior WNBA competitions I set up for the girls to play in.
“How good a job Sarah and Claire are doing organising such numbers. If these girls stick at it we will be looking at very strong under-16 team in 2026 and under-18’s two years later.”
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