Tait was the primary recipient of McColgan’s ‘Giving Again to Observe’ programme, which was arrange three years in the past to assist younger girls make their method in athletics.
After loads of assist and encouragement, Tait says breaking her mentor’s document was one thing she had focused for some time.
“Eilish has supported and mentored me for an excellent few years now and she or he at all times mentioned she thought I’d be the one who would take her document down,” she revealed.
“Eilish actually took me beneath her wing. I’m nonetheless in contact together with her now, we nonetheless travel. She at all times sends me a congratulations message, she is at all times there to assist me and I’m actually grateful for every part she has accomplished for me.”
Having simply accomplished her research at West Virginia College, Tait admits she is “nonetheless figuring issues out” when it comes to the place she goes to base herself as she prepares for subsequent summer season’s Commonwealth Video games, which she says is her “precedence”.
As a 13-year-old, Tait went to observe the athletics at Hampden Park when the video games final visited the town in 2014.
“I simply can’t wait to hopefully be part of it and be a part of inspiring the subsequent era as a result of that was me sitting within the stands watching – so I actually hope that may be me on the beginning line this time,” she added.
