INVERKEITHING High School pupil Kirsty Marsh has been selected to represent Scotland at judo at the Sainsbury's UK School Games to be held in Manchester from 4th-6th September.

The Dalgety Bay 14-year-old will take on competitors from the other home nations in the girls' under-48 kilo category at the prestigious multi-sport event and will also receive advice at special sessions led by UK School Games judo mentor, former Commonwealth judo champion Tom Davis.

This will be the second time the Destination Judo club member has been picked to represent her country in recent months, having also competed for the JudoScotland girls' team at the UK National Teams competition held in Walsall during the school holidays, a competition at which Carnegie Judo Club member Conall McGregor helped the Scotland men's team (which included Commonwealth Games gold medallist Euan Burton) to retain the national crown.

Although British champion in her weight category in the under-15 age group, Marsh will face a tough challenge in her first appearance at the Sainsbury's UK School Games, as her opponents in the Amaechi Centre could be more than three years older and therefore more experienced than her.

The following weekend, along with fellow Destination Club members Ryan Turnbull and Fiona Todman, she will head to Belgium for a JudoScotland training camp where the trio will prepare for their final tournament in the pre-cadet age band this autumn and the subsequent transition to the under-18 age category at December's British Championships which will again be held in Sheffield.