Medals of all completely different colors at world, European and Commonwealth stage have all adopted, however these trinkets are solely a part of Seonaid’s outstanding story.
All through her ascent to the highest of her sport, she has handled arthritis and Crohn’s illness and admitted final 12 months in an interview with BBC Sport to struggling along with her psychological well being through the Covid lockdowns.
“She has by no means given in to any of it,” Donald says. “She obtained arthritis in her knees and spent quite a lot of her final 12 months in school on crutches because the docs tried to work out what was happening.
“There was discuss of juvenile arthritis, which might clear up, nevertheless it did not work out like that so she spent the subsequent two or three years making an attempt to shoot internationally whereas having a extremely tough time with it as a result of she stored having flare ups.
“She’s additionally obtained what might be Crohn’s illness, which comes and goes and hospitalised her in Egypt on the World Championships in 2022, and another bits and items so she is in ache quite a lot of the time.
“That’s just about her every day life and these items have a tendency to only come and go for no obvious cause.
“It is onerous to stay optimistic typically when these items are beating you up, however she has realized to grit her enamel and transfer ahead.”
No person has extra admiration for Seonaid than Jen.
She is aware of how troublesome competing on the high stage of the game is, even with out the well being issues which have beset her wee sister.
“It was actually troublesome for a very long time as a result of there was quite a lot of uncertainty earlier than she obtained the analysis,” stated Jen. “However as quickly as she did get it, she was like, ‘nicely, that is what I’ve obtained and I’m going to cope with it’.
“In some ways, she continues nearly regardless of it, as a result of she doesn’t need to let it maintain her again and that’s fairly unimaginable to look at.”
