Women to watch BUNNY SHAW

The way things are structured in the Caribbean, people mostly believe in education, so I have a lot of teachers and chefs in the family. I'm the only one that sneaked around to become an athlete.

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Track and field is the most successful sport in Jamaica, but football is the biggest and it was always around me. We played in the streets, and where I lived, my gate basically became the goal. Every evening, the boys would come out and play and I would watch from afar, but as the days went on, the closer I got to the gate. One day, I was sitting on the side and one of the teams was short of a player. They asked me if I could go in goal, and that's how it started.

My journey to becoming a professional footballer has definitely been difficult. My parents didn't want me to play football, but I was really good at it, so I had to sneak off to play when my mum went to the supermarket and my dad went to work. I had to make sure I was showered and back watching from the side before they came home so they wouldn't catch me. One day, they did catch me, and I got a proper whooping for it, but I persisted. Eventually, they allowed me to play, especially when I got invited to represent Jamaica. That's when they really gave me permission.