The 18-year-old is going to be a freshman at Old Dominion University, Virginia, and will play in the NCAA Division 1 – the toughest women's league in the world behind the professional US WNBA.

Buchan, who has had an outstanding career to date in basketball, started out as a 12-year-old with Fury.

Just three years later she became the first-ever player in Scotland to not only represent her club at cadette, junior and senior age group, but also for the Scottish national teams.

This year Buchan guided Fury's junior women to a Scottish National Cup final and also represented her country at junior level in Macedonia at the European B Division championships.

There she finished as Scotland's top scorer and in several top ten statistics categories for the whole 20-team competition.
Great Britain

Buchan was then unable to represent the Scotland senior women as she had been selected for the Great Britain under-20 team, proving to be a great asset in Poland while playing in the under-20 European B championships.

However, the former Denny High pupil will now enter a whole new ball game as she continues her great career in basketball. Buchan is pictured below, after receiving a gift from Clark Eriksson Fury, alongside members of this year's Fury cadette girls team and club head coach John Bunyan.

Meanwhile, Fury head out to Ghent, Belgium, this weekend to contest a 24-country European club competition – the biggest tournament of its kind in Europe.

Fury are the only Scottish club competing and have entered three teams in various age groups – the junior men, cadette girls and under-20 men.

It is the club's third year of taking part and they will face competition a lot tougher than many of their players have already done so while representing Scotland in Europe.