Born in Clackmannanshire, Scotland in 1980. At the grand age of 4 weeks she is whisked away to Abu Dhabi where her father is working.

She spends the next 4 years there, playing in the desert with her two older brothers. In 1985 the family returns to Scotland where they move to the cold northeast of Scotland.  Leona begins school in a small country village in Aberdeenshire. Many of Leona’s best memories are as a young girl trying to keep up with her two older brothers jumping their homemade bike ramps, climbing trees and hay bales and doing anything to keep up with her brothers. Far too many times to remember Leona ends up lying on the ground with her brothers standing over her saying “are you ok Leona? Don’t tell mum!”

From the age of 9 Leona finds her love of netball.  Her mum offers to help train the school netball team and of course Leona joins. The last two years of primary school are spent playing netball and winning trophies as her young team go on undefeated 2 years in a row. At high school Leona proceeds to join the adult’s team at just 12 years old. Along with a team of other young netballers they make a junior team who are placed at the bottom of the 4th division playing up against women who are 2-3 times their age and twice their size. They battle on every year advancing to the top of the 1st division in just a few years.

At the age of 23, Leona moves to Bahrain. The Middle East brings great memories of a culture she lived in so many years ago. In Bahrain, Leona proceeds to source out the local netball team and gets started playing for the British Club. Leona goes on to represent  Bahrain.

It’s in Bahrain that Leona mets her husband in 2005. On a rainy day in Bahrain in February 2011 their beautiful daughter is born.

Sick of the monotonous life in gyms and with the urge to lose her baby weight, Leona meets Craig and joins up as a member of Tribal Fitness. Leona is hooked on the whole ethos of Tribal Fitness and she begins her transition to a yummy mummy! She loves the idea that the tribe support each other.

Getting back to nature is exactly what she’s been looking for as it’s there where she started climbing trees in her childhood and it’s where she wants to be when she grows old, climbing the same trees with her grandchildren. Let’s hope they’re not looking over her when she falls saying “Are you ok Gran? Don’t tell mum!” ....