Grant McKelvey

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Grant McKelvey
Birth nameGrant McKelvey
Date of birth (1968-12-28) 28 December 1968 (age 52)
Place of birthChingola, Zambia
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight216 lb (98 kg)
SchoolKnox Academy
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Haddington
Watsonians		 ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Edinburgh ()
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1997 Scotland 1 (0)

Grant McKelvey (born 28 December 1968) is a senior manager at the Scottish Rugby Union who has also worked as a rugby union coach. He was previously a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]

Early life[]

McKelvey was born on 28 December 1968 in Chingola, Zambia. He went to Knox Academy in Haddington.

Rugby Union career[]

Amateur career[]

He started off playing for Haddington and then played for Watsonians.

Professional and provincial career[]

He was named as a replacement in the Cities District side to play Australia in October 1996.[2] However he did not play.[3]

McKelvey played for Edinburgh Rugby.[4]

International career[]

He played for the Scottish Schools under-15s in 1984.[5]

He played one Autumn international match as hooker for Scotland against Australia at Murrayfield on 22 November 1997.

Coaching career[]

In July 2000 the Reivers announced that he had left their squad to concentrate on his work as a SRU development officer in East Lothian.[6]

He coached Musselburgh RFC until 2003 when he became the rugby development manager for Edinburgh.[7]

In 2007 he became the Scotland national under-18 rugby union team coach, having previously coached the under-17 team.[8] In December 2014 he became a talent identification and performance projects manager.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Grant McKelvey". ESPN scrum.
  2. ^ "Register | British Newspaper Archive". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
  3. ^ "Register | British Newspaper Archive". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
  4. ^ "District cap does not fit six Scotland internationalists. Room left to tempt big names north as 43 players pay the penalty for rugby's contract revolution". HeraldScotland.
  5. ^ McMurtrie, Bill (31 March 1984). "Young Scots fail to hold Wales". The Glasgow Herald. p. 18. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  6. ^ "Injury forces McNulty to call it a day with Reivers". The Scotsman. 5 July 2000. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  7. ^ "McKelvey moves on". The Scotsman. 11 November 2003. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  8. ^ "New Head Coaches For Scotland Age-Grade Teams" (Press release). Scottish Rugby Union. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  9. ^ Black, Gareth (11 November 2003). "Graeme Beveridge gets academy role with Edinburgh". The Scotsman. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
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