Calum MacRae
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Full name | Calum MacRae | ||||||
Date of birth | 26 January 1980 | ||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||
Weight | 14 st 8 lb (93 kg) | ||||||
School | Earlston High School | ||||||
University | Moray House Institute of Education | ||||||
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Current club | Scotland 7's (head coach) | ||||||
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Calum MacRae (born 26 January 1980 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the head coach of the Scotland rugby 7's team.
Playing career
MacRae played rugby union as a centre and had also operated at fullback and fly-half.
After age grade rugby he played for a four-year period on the IRB Sevens World Series along with playing in the Celtic league for the Borders. He played his final tournament for Scotland at the 2005 RWC Sevens in Hong Kong. Following this he was in Frank Hadden's Scotland Training Squad for a 4-year period, however, MacRae never gained full honours. His international 15's career mainly consisted of three consecutive Churchill Cup Tournaments.
He was called up to the Scotland squad for the autumn tests in 2006[1] and for the 2008 Six Nations Championship.[2][3]
In 2009 he signed for Worcester Warriors.[4]
Coaching career
He worked as a skills and attack coach at Newcastle Falcons from June 2011.[5]
In June 2014 it was announced that he would take over as the coach for the Scotland national rugby union 7's team for the 2014-15 season.[6]
MacRae is a qualified physical education teacher.
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External links
- 1980 births
- Living people
- People educated at Earlston High School
- Scottish rugby union players
- Edinburgh Rugby players
- Worcester Warriors players
- Venezia Mestre Rugby FC players
- Rugby union centres
- Rugby union fullbacks
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Scottish expatriate rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in Italy
- British expatriates in Italy