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Morag just misses out on athletics team place
A Perthshire dentist has come within 2.65 seconds of qualifying for the Scot- tish athletics team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Blairgowrie Dental Care's Morag
June shoots for glory at Games
Scottish dentist to compete against the best in this summer's Commonwealth Games as part of the Scottish netball squad
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lasgow dentist June McNeil will be shooting for glory as she prepares to take on the world at this summer's Commonwealth Games.
June, who is an associate at Martin
Dental Care in the southside of the city, will join up with the Scottish netball squad, also known as the Scottish Thistles, as they compete with the best teams in the world. The competition will take place in the
SECC Precinct from 24 July until the final on 3 August. However, June explained that, being ranked ı2th in the world, the team's main aim is to improve its world ranking, with anything else being a bonus. She said: “We are aiming to finish within the top eight. We are currently ranked ı2th, having recently beaten Trinidad and Tobago who
Ten-year reunion
celebration Glasgow Dental School's class of 2004 celebrated its 10-year reunion with an evening of reminiscing at Arta in the Merchant City.
Louise Beaton, one of the
were ranked 8th at the time, so what we are really aiming at is to break into the top eight in the world.” June joined her local team Bishopbriggs
Juniors when she was just ı0 years old and was selected for international duty at under ı5, under ı7 and then under 2ı level. June even co-captained the Scottish under 2ıs at the World Youth Championships in the Cook Islands in 2009. And for this summer's games, the
Glasgow graduate is excited about appearing in front of home crowds. She said: “Competing in any Commonwealth Games is an unbelievable experience, but to have it on home soil definitely makes the experience a greater one. Having the home crowd support is like having an extra player on court with you.”
2004 graduates who helped organise the event, said: “A decade may have passed very quickly, but a lot has happened in that time. Many former students now own or work in established, successful practices. Others have specialised
and furthered their careers in hospital/community centres, some have changed career altogether. Many now have young families and are balancing their home and work lives. Student days are long gone! “A fantastic night was enjoyed by
all, and it was great to see everyone still looking youthful! “Thank you to Fiona Hogg for organising the event and thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to the success of the night.”
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MacLarty was the first British woman to win a ı500m gold medal at the European Athletics Junior Champion- ships in Lithuania in 2005. Alongside Morag in that Great Britain team were Olympic champions Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford. The Dundee graduate has repre-
sented Scotland and Great Britain at 800m, ı500m and cross country and has won numerous national and interna- tional titles, including European Junior ı500m gold and Commonwealth Youth Games ı500m gold. She set her personal best in the ı500m
in 20ı0 with a time in 4:ı0:86, but injury and illness interrupted her route to the 20ı4 games and she was left to sweat on qualification. With the qualifying bar set at 4:ı0:50, she only had to shave less than half a second off her best time. However, in the end her last effort of 4:ı3:ı5 in early June meant that the dream of competing in front of a home crowd had been dashed.
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