Supported by: Monica Lennon*, Maggie Chapman*, Rona Mackay*, Foysol Choudhury*, Gillian Mackay*, Jeremy Balfour*, Siobhian Brown*, Annabelle Ewing*, Kenneth Gibson*, Stephanie Callaghan*, Emma Harper*, Audrey Nicoll*, Miles Briggs*, Bill Kidd*, David Torrance*, Bob Doris*, Colin Beattie*, Stuart McMillan*, Paul Sweeney*, Pam Gosal* *S6M-05769 Emma Harper: Dalbeattie Star Girls and Ladies Football Teams Success —That the Parliament congratulates Dalbeattie Star Girls and Ladies Football teams on their first anniversary since being founded in August 2021; understands that it is the first ladies football team from Stewartry to enter the Scottish Women’s Football League, with the vision of “a game that realises the needs, wants and unlimited ambitions of its girls and women”; commends the Dalbeattie Star FC Board on being instrumental in the 2021 launch of the Star Girls and Ladies teams, which allows them to compete in amateur and professional ladies football, and which also allows them a legitimate means through which to fundraise to purchase essential and valuable equipment and resources for the club; congratulates them on winning two trophies at the August 2022 Dalbeattie Civic Daze Parade for best float and best in parade, winning the club funds to partake in the Star Girls Do Barcelona, an ambitious project to take 21 girls aged between 10 and 13 to Spain, in 2023, for the Barcelona Girls Cup; commends Danielle Houston, coach of both the girls and ladies teams, for her efforts to foster the ambitions of girls and ladies who want to become professional footballers, and wishes Stewartry’s women and girl footballers every success for the future.