Short Version
Her unique height made her a quiet and retiring type as a young girl but inclusion in a tight knit circle of friends who formed an amateur football/soccer team allowed her to blossom into her own person. Finding great confidence from using her unique stature to become an impressive player on the field. Her timidness was fully overcome.
Long Version
An only child who was doted on her parents, she was a happy and outgoing girl from a young age. Often making a good impression on those she met, her bright personality was a welcome presence. But as other children weren’t as appreciative of her, particularly when she began to show the beginning of her significantly taller stature. This led to the other children in her minute school singling her out for harassment and ostracization.
Aisling’s personality shifted and her once sunny demeanor was dampened down by sadness and loneliness. Her parents became so concerned that they considered moving and giving their daughter a new chance in a different town and school. However she fell in with a small friends group who were fascinated rather than repulsed by her. The girls rallied around Aisling and slowly turned her back around to her old self.
She was among their number upon the founding of their amateur football/soccer team, the girls coining it ‘The Tigers’. In the beginning they trained on their school’s pitch during off hours. Forming a stronger rapport with one another as friends and also teammates. Each fitting into her own position on the field. Aisling came to embrace her height and found that her long legs aided stamina on the field and also granted her the advantage of being able to kick higher, further and faster.
The team’s unofficial mascot due to her distinctive appearance making her especially stand out in the group, she gleefully took it on. Her bright, warm and outgoing self also proving popular with the girls’ rapidly growing fanbase.
