Looking back, with hindsight, McMurtry can see the signs.
As a teenager, she would feel disconnected from others. She would clown around and join in the high jinks, but, emotionally, she was always one step removed; like it was a role she was obliged to play.
Sport was better.
“You are speaking through your actions rather than words – that is how you get respect,” she says.
“You are doing something, rather than just existing. There is a common purpose, there is a point to being together – there was so much about sport that spoke to how my brain