Graeme Young (born Dunedin, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand born Scottish rugby union player and now coach who played for Glasgow Warriors and Stirling County at the Scrum-half position. He has coached Stirling County, Scotland Women and the Scotland Cub XV.
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| Place of birth | Dunedin, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby Union career
editAmateur career
editHis parents both are Scottish - and Young emigrated to Scotland from New Zealand in 2000. He played for the Poneke club in Wellington before moving to Scotland. Young played for amateur club Stirling County from 2000 Captaining the club to the Scottish Division Two championship
Provincial career
editIn New Zealand he represented the Otago and Wellington provinces.
Professional career
editHe made one appearance for the professional provincial side Glasgow Warriors; in the season 2000-01. Coming on as a replacement for Chris Black at scrum-half in 71 minutes, he turned out for Glasgow at Hughenden in a Welsh-Scottish League match against Cross Keys RFC on 2 September 2000.[1] Glasgow won the match 52 - 28.[2]
Coaching career
editYoung coached Stirling County from 2008, becoming head coach in 2011 leading the club to their highest league position in 17 years of 3rd place and back to back qualification for the British & Irish Cup. He remained there till 2015.[3]
He left Stirling and became an assistant coach with the Scotland women's national rugby union team who secured their first Six Nations victories in 7 seasons defeating Wales and Italy.
An HR manager professionally he has worked for media group Sky, Tesco Bank and as a Rugby Development Officer for Clackmanannshire Council. He currently Heads up Heathrow Airport’s People Services function.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Big win fails to impress Caley coach". Scotsman.com. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Patchy Caley unlock Welsh". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ Donald Morton (10 June 2015). "Hunt for new Stirling County boss begins after Graeme Young steps down". Dailyrecord.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Graeme Young". LinkedIn. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
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