Angus fencer Louise Helyer has been selected to represent Scotland in the Commonwealth Fencing Championships next month.
The event is being staged in Largs from November 10 to 15. Louise (29), who is a PE teacher at Strathallan School in Perthshire, won team silver four years ago in Australia.
She will again be competing in the team event, as well as the individual.
Louise, from Kirriemuir, is currently the highest ranked women’s epee fencer based in Scotland and ranked in the top 15 in Britain.
Fencing was in the Commonwealth Games until the 1980s, and Louise, who carried the Queen’s Baton in Angus this summer, admitted: “It would have been nice to have had the chance to compete in Glasgow.
“There were attempts to get it back in, but it didn’t happen.”
One of her team-mates in Largs will be Olympic modern pentathlete Mhairi Spence.
Louise used to compete in the multi-discipline event herself, but gave it up after failing to make Team GB for London 2012.
Work commitments now mean that trying to qualify for Rio 2016 isn’t a realistic goal.
Louise explained: “It would be a huge commitment. Strathallan have been really good to me in allowing me the time to compete at this level, but going for the Olympics would mean full-time commitment. I’m focusing on my career now.”