Emma takes up cricket role to promote junior recruitment

May 3, 2024 5:55 pm

Royal High Corstorphine cricket club have appointed Emma Turner to the role of ‘Junior Activator’.

Currently a pupil support assistant at Craigroyston Primary School, Emma previously worked as a rugby coach for The Royal High School and RugbyTots. Emma is captain of Corstorphine Cougars RFC and was recently selected to represent Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic Challenge.

Emma said: “I’m really looking forward to getting started with the cricket club and I can’t wait for the new challenge of working with the girls.”

Club secretary, Robert Drummond, added: “The majority of RHC players are under 25 and as such we lack players who have children aged 7-10. Traditionally parents are the organisational bedrock of junior cricket.

“Given that we have very few parents we feel we need the input of an Activator – someone who can relate well to children, meet and talk with parents, communicate with schools, etc. Emma is a schoolteacher, and together with her sporting prowess is ideally suited to this role.

“Her initial role has a focus on under-12 and under 15 girls cricket. At present we have four men’s teams but only one women’s team. One of our top ambitions is to add a second women’s team and the key to making that happen is to produce our own pathway that allows teenage girls to join RHC. We are particularly keen to develop our girls’ under-12 coaching and playing this coming year.”

If you would like to give cricket a try at RHC get in touch through the website https://royalhighcorstorphine.play-cricket.com/home