The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
Students celebrate with Olympian
Stirling students will be celebrating their success alongside an Olympic curler at an Inverness graduation ceremony next week.
Eve Muirhead, from Blair Atholl, will be made a doctor of Stirling University in recognition of her outstanding contribution to British sport at a ceremony in Inverness Cathedral.
Eve, who won Olympic bronze in 2014 as skipper for the British team, will receive her honorary degree alongside 85 students from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport at the university’s graduation ceremony in Inverness on Friday.
In addition to her Olympic success Eve has performed to a consistently high standard in the World Championships – winning a silver medal in 2010, a gold in 2013 and a bronze in 2017; and at the European Championships, where she has won two bronze, four silver and two gold medals since 2010.
She has also been Scottish curling champion seven times between 2009 and 2017.
Also an accomplished bagpiper, she has piped at four world Championships, and was the ambassador for Piping Live! 2010.
A portrait of her with her broom, clubs and pipes hangs in the National Galleries Scotland.
Eve opened the National Curling Academy in Stirling last year.
The graduation ceremony held in Inverness Cathedral will also celebrate the success of a cohort of nurses, as well as those graduating with specialist postgraduate degrees and other qualifications, from the Highlands and Western Isles.