Gemma plays wheelchair basketball for Scotland’s National League Club, the Lothian Phoenix, and is an all-star for the Women’s League Club, the Angels of the North. She’s captained the Under 19s team for Scotland at the Lord Taverner’s National Junior Championships, and was called to be Vice-Captain of the Scotand Under 23 Squad. Gemma, who has cerebral palsy, is also a keen activist for disability rights, sitting on the Scottish Disability Sport Young People’s Panel and acting as an ambassador for the disabled children’s charity Whizz-Kidz.

She was awarded the Jean Ratcliffe Outstanding Achievement award in 2014 and plays wheelchair rugby where she was the youngest member of the Senior Scotland Rugby League squad in the Four Nations, 2014, and was named best in classification for great Britain Wheelchair Rugby division three.

She’s a coach at her local wheelchair sports club, the Dundee Dragons, as well as the Abertay University team, and is assistant coach for the Scottish Uni representative team (who won silver at the British Wheelchair Basketball University Championships this year). She was named Disability Coach of the Year by Basketball Tayside and Fife.