Ross McCann
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Date of birth | October 30, 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Ross McCann (born 30 October 1997) is a Scottish rugby player who plays as a winger.[1]
From a sporting family, his brothers Alistair McCann, who is a footballer who plays for Preston North End F.C., and Lewis McCann who plays for Dunfermline F.C. are all from Edinburgh, born to an English mother and a Northern Irish father.[2]
Ross McCann went to school in Cramond and then the Royal High School, Edinburgh and was a school friend of Charlie Shiel with whom he also played for the Royal High Corstorphine RFC and represented the under-20s for Scotland together. McCann went on then to play for Stewart's Melville RFC and Melrose RFC.[3] He signed a full-time contract to play in Scotland’s sevens squad in 2018.
In March 2021 he was named in the Great Britain Rugby Sevens training squad ahead of the 2020 Summer Games.[4] On 18 June, 2021 McCann was confirmed in the official Britain squad to travel to Tokyo.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Ross McCann". Scottish Rugby Union. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ Forsyth, Paul. "Meet the McCanns: Ross, Ali, Lewis (and Scott) uphold family tradition". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ January 2019, Gary Heatly Friday 25. "After growing up on the same street, two Scotland youngsters are on different roads to stardom". Talking Rugby Union. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Borderers picked for Olympic rugby sevens squads". www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Five Scots make GB Olympic sevens squads". BBC Sport. 2021-06-18. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Scottish rugby sevens players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rugby sevens players of Great Britain