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ELIGIBLES<br />
an adrenaline junkie. Her sport will always<br />
come first.<br />
Do ask about her canoe’s aerodynamics.<br />
Don’t mention exams. Fiona spent all summer<br />
studying for resits and is determined not to fail<br />
them again.<br />
37<br />
NEW<br />
JULIE FLEETING<br />
FOOTBALLER, 20<br />
Lives Ayrshire and San Diego.<br />
Who she? <strong>The</strong> captain of our<br />
women’s football team has<br />
joined the San Diego Spirit<br />
from Ayr United, where she<br />
scored almost 300 goals in<br />
nine years. <strong>The</strong> country’s<br />
all-time greatest player, she<br />
scored 78 goals in 58 national team games.<br />
Pluses A girl who likes football.<br />
Minuses A girl who can beat you at football.<br />
Don’t mention ‘Shrek’. It’s the nickname her new<br />
American teammates have given her.<br />
Do ask about her family. Julie misses them<br />
terribly since moving to the US.<br />
38<br />
NEW<br />
CAROL SUMMERS<br />
BUSINESSWOMAN, 26<br />
Lives Glasgow.<br />
Who she? As business<br />
development manager for<br />
drinks giant Diageo, Carol is<br />
responsible for keeping<br />
Glasgow’s bars and clubs fully<br />
stocked with brands such as<br />
Smirnoff, Gordon’s and<br />
Tanqueray. She’s part of the team launching<br />
Gordon’s Edge in Scotland.<br />
Conquests Bar and club-hopping means she<br />
doesn’t stay in one place for very long.<br />
Haunts CCA bar and café at lunchtime, or on<br />
Glasgow’s southside to avoid her customers –<br />
otherwise she’d never have a night off.<br />
Pluses Besides the free booze?<br />
Minuses Her car. It’s Knackered because she keeps<br />
too many boxes of booze in the back seat.<br />
Do say “Have you tried the new Gordon’s gin?<br />
It’s great.”<br />
Don’t do marketing speak. She has heard it all<br />
before. Talk plain English, please.<br />
YVONNE TAYLOR<br />
ACTIVIST, 31<br />
Lives Edinburgh.<br />
Who she? Works as campaigns<br />
co-ordinator for the Edinburgh<br />
branch of Advocates<br />
for Animals. A veggie since<br />
age 12, and a vegan since 21,<br />
her life revolves around her<br />
work. Yvonne has travelled<br />
all over the world and donned various costumes<br />
in the name of her cause. Recently made the<br />
front pages getting arrested in Beijing for stripping<br />
naked to protest at a fur fashion show.<br />
Conquests A couple of serious relationships, but<br />
the only males in Yvonne’s life right now are her<br />
three pet rats.<br />
Haunts Any of the veggie restaurants in Edinburgh.<br />
Pluses Can laugh at herself dressed as a vegetable.<br />
Minuses Meat-eaters need not apply.<br />
Do take her back to Beijing. Yvonne was annoyed<br />
at being deported before she had completed<br />
her sightseeing.<br />
Don’t tell her you’re a butcher.<br />
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 1 December <strong>2002</strong> 33<br />
39<br />
NEW<br />
Pass the tofu: <strong>Eligible</strong><br />
number 39, Yvonne<br />
Taylor, is a devoted animal<br />
rights campaigner
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