Ross McCann (born 30 October 1997) is a Scottish rugby player who plays as a winger.
From a sporting family, he and his brothers
Ali McCann
Alistair Edward McCann (born 4 December 1999) is a professional footballer who plays for Preston North End, as a midfielder. Born in Scotland, he represents Northern Ireland at international level.
Early and personal life
Born in Edinburgh, Mc ...
, who is a footballer who plays for
Preston North End F.C.
Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, England, who currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league syst ...
, and
Lewis McCann
Lewis McCann (born 7 June 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as forward for Dunfermline Athletic. Born in Scotland, he has represented Northern Ireland at youth international level.
Early and personal life
McCann and his brothers, Al ...
who plays for
Dunfermline F.C., are all from Edinburgh, born to an English mother and a Northern Irish father.
Ross McCann went to school in
Cramond
Cramond Village (; gd, Cathair Amain) is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth.
The Cramond area has evidence of Mesolithic, Bronze Age and Roman a ...
and then the
Royal High School, Edinburgh
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and was a school friend of
Charlie Shiel with whom he also played for the
Royal High Corstorphine RFC
Royal High Corstorphine RFC is a former Edinburgh rugby union club, formed from the merger of the Royal HSFP and Corstorphine RFC. The merged club was dissolved in 2017 as two clubs:- Corstorphine Cougars and Royal HSFP.
History
Royal High C ...
and represented the under-20s for Scotland together. McCann went on then to play for
Stewart's Melville RFC and
Melrose RFC Melrose may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
* Melrose, Scottish Borders, a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
** Melrose Abbey, ruined monastery
** Melrose RFC, rugby club
Australia
* Melrose, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnett ...
. 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. On 18 June 2021 McCann was confirmed in the official Britain squad to travel to
Tokyo
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.
References
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1997 births
Living people
Scottish rugby sevens players
Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic rugby sevens players for Great Britain
Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Rugby sevens players at the 2023 European Games
European Games medalists in rugby sevens
European Games silver medalists for Great Britain
Rugby union players from Edinburgh
Scottish people of Irish descent
Scottish people of English descent
Melrose RFC players
Stewart's Melville RFC players
People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Rugby players
Scottish rugby union players
Rugby union wings