Grant McKelvey
| Birth name | Grant McKelvey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 28 December 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Chingola, Zambia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 216 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Knox Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]McKelvey was born on 28 December 1968 in Chingola, Zambia. He went to Knox Academy in Haddington.
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He started off playing for Haddington and then played for Watsonians.
Professional and provincial career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Grant McKelvey". ESPN scrum.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19961029/323/0040 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19961104/291/0015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "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. 16 April 1998.
- ^ McMurtrie, Bill (31 March 1984). "Young Scots fail to hold Wales". The Glasgow Herald. p. 18. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ "Injury forces McNulty to call it a day with Reivers". The Scotsman. 5 July 2000. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ "McKelvey moves on". The Scotsman. 11 November 2003. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ "New Head Coaches For Scotland Age-Grade Teams" (Press release). Scottish Rugby Union. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ Black, Gareth (11 November 2003). "Graeme Beveridge gets academy role with Edinburgh". The Scotsman. Retrieved 27 February 2016.