THE OUR SQUAD AMBASSADORS
Jin Osbourne, of Penarth Jin Osborne was inspired to become a fitness instructor after her passion for sport helped her to overcome depression in her teenage years.
Since then, the 34-year-old says her active lifestyle has saved her life, having been diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disease which causes the walls of blood vessels to become inflamed.
Jin believes attitudes to sport should be more about its health benefits and the fun that exercise can bring as opposed to what it does to our physical appearance.
“Everyone has their issues with their weight but I feel like we put too much pressure on how we look and trying to look a certain way,” Jin said.
“Sport shouldn’t be about looking like Instagram models, it should be about being real, and having a realistic goal about your body.” Stephanie Howarth, of Cardiff Having lost interest in sport by her teenage years, 35-year-old Stephanie Howarth’s friends invited her to watch a Tiger Bay Brawlers roller derby game. The experience ignited a passion for the sport which has since taken Stephanie to international tournaments and introduced her to a ‘second family’.
“They said it was really cool so I thought I would go and have a watch,” Stephanie said.
“And it was really cool – there were these strong, fearsome women, some of them with tattoos, and I thought: ‘This is something I want to be a part of’.” Angharad Sian Roche, from Pembrokeshire, now lives in Cardiff After playing softball for her local Cardiff team the Hammers for four years, Angharad, from Pembrokeshire, found herself longing to use her mother tongue again. In order to continue enjoying the sport and find a new outlet for her language, Angharad founded her own Welsh-speaking team.
“We have some women on the team