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Sport / Strongwoman Tegan muscles her way to top UHI sports award

Tegan Patterson (right) was second at the Four Nations competition.

A STRONGWOMAN from Shetland who is also training for a degree in social services and childcare has been given a top sporting students award.

Tegan Patterson was awarded a full blue prize, given to athletes who have shown outstanding ability in their respective sport, by the Highlands and Islands Students’ Association (HISA).

The award was presented in partnership with the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), where Patterson is a student.

It comes as part of the 2025 Sporting Blues awards, recognising exceptional sporting achievement from across the UHI roll.

Patterson, who is studying an NC in social services and childcare at UHI Shetland, has set a world record in the Viking deadlift and a new Shetland record for the Atlas stone lift over the last year.

“Thank you very much to HISA for this Sporting Blues award,” she said.

Cameron Nisbet and Tegan Patterson.

“I would also like to thank my coach Andrew Goodlad and Stuart and Steven Moar from Shetland Weight Training Gym for making this possible.

“I started strongwoman in May 2024. Since then, I have competed in two local competitions and two national competitions.

“My two proudest moments are breaking a world record in Viking deadlifts, with a 322.5kg lift, and breaking the Shetland female record for Atlas stones with a 120kg stone.

“I am now preparing for Shetland’s Strongest Woman 2025.”

Patterson was the winner of the women’s event at the first-ever Viking Deadlift competition in Shetland last October, and finished second in the women’s under-73kg category of the Natural Strongman 4 Nations competition in May.

The 2025 Sporting Blues winners included record-breakers, national representatives, and people taking on sports such as golf, swimming and adaptive CrossFit.

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