Colin Stewart (born 6 January 1980 in

Bellshill Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, southeast of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell to the south, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton to the south ...

, Scotland) is a former Scotland Under 21 international

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player who played with

Glasgow Warriors The Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and beca ...

and

Border Reivers Border Reivers were Cattle raiding, raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border. They included both Scotland, Scottish and England, English people, and they raided the entire border country without regard to their victims' nationality.Hay, D. "E ...

. His regular playing position was

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. Starting off playing mini-rugby, Stewart began his rugby career playing for

East Kilbride RFC East Kilbride RFC are a rugby union side who are based in East Kilbride. History Established in 1968, their home games are played at the Torrance House ground within Calderglen Country Park. The team currently compete in the . EKRFC moved to ...

. His potential was spotted by the Glasgow District Rugby Union and he was selected as one of the Glasgow Thistle squad - then essentially an academy squad for

- that would receive rugby training in the summer of 1998 in New Zealand. The training was under the ex-Glasgow Warriors boss

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. In the season 2000-01 he formally joined Glasgow. For the 2002-03 season Stewart joined

. While he was not in action for the Reivers, Stewart played for

Selkirk RFC Selkirk Rugby Football Club are a rugby union side based in Selkirk in the Borders, Scotland. They play in their home games at Philiphaugh, and compete in the Scottish Premiership (the highest tier of club rugby) and the Border League (the o ...

. In 2006 he moved to England to play for

Plymouth Albion Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England. The present club was founded in 1920 from a merger between Plymouth RFC (founded 1876) and Devonport Albion RFC (founded 1876). Since 2003 they have played ...

. He moved to play in France in 2009, where he played for Tarbees Pyrennes. He played 57 times for the French club in two seasons. After playing in France he returned to south-west England in 2011, where he now plays and coaches

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. He is also Head of the Rugby Academy at South Devon College. He has set up a Rugby 4 Kids programme to promote rugby to the under 7s. Stewart played for Scotland U19 and Scotland U21.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Colin 1980 births Rugby union locks Living people Glasgow Warriors players Stado Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby players Plymouth Albion R.F.C. players Newton Abbot RFC players East Kilbride RFC players Border Reivers players Selkirk RFC players Scottish expatriate rugby union players in France Rugby union players from South Lanarkshire Sportspeople from East Kilbride People educated at Duncanrig Secondary School Scottish rugby union players