LOVE Robyn

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (Athlete, 20 Jul 2016)

Impairment Details
She has arthrogryposis, a lower limb development impairment caused by lack of movement in the womb. As a result, her right leg is shorter than her left and she is missing muscles in both legs. (Athlete, 20 Jul 2016; scottishstudentsport.com, 04 Oct 2016)

General
WOMEN'S ACADEMY AMBITIONS
In 2021 she was part of the Women's Sports Trust's 'Unlocked' initiative, which aims to increase diversity in sport through workshops and activities. She says one of her long-term goals is to continue to help increase female participation in wheelchair basketball by opening the sport's first all-female academy. "Ninety per cent of our sport is mixed-gender and I'd like to see more chances for women and girls to train together. I hope to create my own women's wheelchair basketball academy, which is not something that exists anything else in the world. Having the opportunity to play and train with the boys is great, as we will be doing in Loughborough, but it shouldn't be the only option. It has the potential to discourage women wanting to get involved. I feel honoured to be part of 'Unlocked' alongside female athletes I've looked up to for years and it's an incredible opportunity to drive positive change within wheelchair basketball." (ealingtimes.co.uk, 13 Apr 2021)

COMING OUT
In 2011 she came out as gay and she hopes to inspire younger people to accept who they are. "Having positive role models wherever you are is really important. It was for me. If I can be that positive role model for someone, then I'm really proud to be so. I hadn't come out until I was 21. I was part of the Edinburgh Napier basketball team since I started university and in that team the people were just themselves, others in the team knew that some people were gay. My older sister is gay, I had gone to university by the time she came out, so I didn't have her there to be inspired by. But at university, just having those role models encouraged me to be myself. Seeing them being open made me want to be open. It was due to one of them that I came out for the first time. When it comes to inspiration, you don't have to do extreme things, if by being yourself can help other people than that's great, and if I can just be me and that helps a boy or girl, man or woman, then I'm very lucky." (sportsaid.org.uk, 26 Aug 2020)