First sporting success? Gold at the BJC Northwest Team Cup for Lancashire Team aged 10.

Your tip for the top: Enjoy it. Your sporting career and life in general is too short not to.

First Scottish/GB selection: Junior Paris Tournament 1991.

How do you feel when you represent Scotland/GB? Nervous, Proud and Somebody

How and why did you get involved in your sport? Followed my elder brother to a local judo club (St. Pauls, Monton, Manchester) age 9.

Finest sporting moment in history? When the inmates team, beat the Nazi’s in ‘Escape to Victory’.

Any family connections to sport? Only following my brother into sport.

Toughest opponent? Myself

Biggest passion away from your sport? Creating new from old renovation of property / furniture. Using a creative side to visualise and bring about new life to something old, tried, but well made.  Love finding a bargain.

Favourite sport other than your own? Admire gymnastics / dance.  So different from what I do.  So graceful and awe inspiring to watch.

Three words that describe you: Independant, trustworthy and slow.

Who would you most like to meet? Peter Kay

Most prized possession? My flat.  I love home!

Biggest influence? My mum.  As I get older I realise (worryingly) that I’m betting more and more like her.  I also recognise how she shaped much of my character when I was young.

Top tips to relax? Get out doors to somewhere naturally scenic.  A walk around Arthur’s Seat.  A visit to a beach in East Lothian.  Getting back to nature brings perspective and peace to a tough life.

Ultimate ambition: To be a content and fulfilled when I die a very old lady.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? With a family. Hopefully still keeping myself fit.  Hopefully with a successful business.