Adam Roxburgh

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Adam Roxburgh
Birth nameAdam John Roxburgh
Date of birth (1970-04-14) 14 April 1970 (age 51)
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight15 st 6 lb (98 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) flanker
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
-1996
1996-
Kelso
Border Reivers
Kelso
()
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1997-1998 Scotland 8 8
Teams coached
YearsTeam
2015- Kelso

Adam Roxburgh (born 14 April 1970) is a rugby union coach and former player who made eight appearances for the Scotland national rugby union team. He was known for his entertaining play in rugby sevens games.

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Early life

Roxburgh was born in Edinburgh. [1]

Rugby playing career

He played club rugby for Kelso RFC. [2]

He made his international rugby debut on 22 November 1997 against Australia at Murrayfield. [1] His last appearance was against Australia at Brisbane during the 1998 Scotland rugby union tour of Oceania. [1]

Roxburgh was a talented rugby sevens player. With Kelso he competed in the Dubai Sevens, 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens and has won three Kings of the Sevens. [3] In 1997, he won the Middlesex Sevens with the Barbarians. [2]

When many of his rugby-playing contemporaries turned professional in 1997, Roxburgh remained with the firm of precision tool makers, Abbey Tool and Gauge in Kelso, who had been his first employer from school. [2] He retired from club rugby in 2005. [2]

Coaching

By 2008 he was coaching the Kelso sevens team and the Kelso second fifteen. [4] He took over as a head coach at Kelso from 2015. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Player profile: Adam Roxburgh, Scotland". ESPN . Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Music at an end as Roxy takes a bow". The Scotsman . 9 April 2005. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  3. "Roxburgh out of sevens". BBC News . 18 July 2002.
  4. "Roxburgh seeks home spark as Kelso Sevens kick off new season". The Scotsman. 15 August 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  5. "Adam returns to his roots". The Southern Reporter. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2016.