The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu With Katie Rood

Hearts’ New Zealand international had been scoring since her move to Edinburgh, and the food questionnaire is built around the vegan lifestyle she credits with better wellbeing, performance and recovery. Grapefruit is the one thing she cannot stand. She mostly craves good food, so restriction is not an issue, and would splash out at an Italian or Asian restaurant in Edinburgh. The night before a game is sweet potato, black bean and soy chicken enchiladas with rice and salad; game day is a bagel with avocado, hummus and tomato, plus a gameday smoothie that replaces an energy drink and contains banana, berries, beetroot, dates, ginger, apple-cider vinegar, turmeric, black pepper, chia and flax seeds and cinnamon. Half-time is medjool dates. Her nachos, she says, are off the charts.