Mark Ralph (born 10 February 1980 in Paisley) is a field hockey midfield player from Scotland. Ralph earned his first cap for the Men's National Team in 2011 against India, and went on to win 154 caps for Scotland and 24 caps for Great Britain. He scored 74 goals Scotland and 1 goal for GB. Ralph scored many of his goals due to a trademark drag flick. Ralph played his club hockey for Kelburne HC before moving to the Netherlands with powerful Dutch side Hockey Club Klein Zwitzerland, based in The Hague. On his return to Scotland he became the Player Coach of Kelburne HC for 5 seasons and helped the club achieve 11 National League titles in a row and compete with European clubs at the EHL, making the KO16 at his first attempt at coaching at this level.
Away from hockey, Ralph is a qualified Advanced Driving Instructor based in and around Glasgow. He also coaches at Glasgow Academy.
Maurice John Giblin Johnston is a Scottish football player and coach. Johnston, who played as a striker, started his senior football career with Partick Thistle in 1981. He moved to Watford in 1983, where he scored 23 league goals and helped them reach the 1984 FA Cup Final. In 1984 he joined Celtic and scored 72 goals in 128 matches, won the Scottish Cup in 1985 and the Scottish league championship in 1986. Johnston signed for Nantes in 1987. He returned to Glasgow with Rangers in 1989, becoming the second player to cross the Old Firm divide since World War II and the first open Catholic to play for Rangers since World War I.
Michael Robert Leighton Blair is a Scottish rugby union coach who was formerly a professional player. He is currently assistant coach of Glasgow Warriors and the Scottish National team. He played at scrum-half for Glasgow Warriors, Newcastle Falcons, CA Brive and Edinburgh Rugby. He represented the Scotland national side 85 times, as well as the touring with the British and Irish Lions in 2009. He retired from playing on 21 April 2016 aged 35. He is an assistant coach with Glasgow Warriors and an assistant coach of the Scottish national team. He was the first Scottish player to be nominated for the title of IRB World Player of the Year.
Daniel Arthur Parks is an Australian-born former Scotland international rugby union player and now coach. His primary playing position was at fly-half.
William Semple Brown Wallace is a Scottish former football player and coach. He won the European Cup with Celtic in 1967 along with several domestic honours. His other clubs included Stenhousemuir, Raith Rovers, Heart of Midlothian and Dumbarton in the Scottish leagues, and Crystal Palace in English football.
Russell Simon Garcia is an English field hockey coach and a former England & GB field hockey player. He won a gold medal with Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul at the age of 18 years 3 months.
Teun Floris de Nooijer is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad, in 1996 and in 2000, and was on the team in 2012. He currently plays for Dutch side HC Bloemendaal and in Hockey India League for Uttar Pradesh Wizards.
Robert Adriaan van der Horst is a Dutch field hockey coach and a former player who coaches the first men's team of Oranje-Rood.
Gary John McSwegan is a Scottish former professional footballer. A striker, he began his career with Rangers, leaving to join Notts County in England. He returned to Scotland and had spells with Dundee United, Heart of Midlothian and Kilmarnock. Later in his career he went on to play for Ross County, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, and Clyde. He made two international appearances for Scotland whilst a Hearts player.
Chloe Naomi Rogers is an English field hockey player midfield and forward and London 2012 Olympic bronze medal-winner. She made her senior international debut for the England women's national field hockey team in November 2003 versus Japan at Chelmer Park, Chelmsford, Essex. She holds a World Cup bronze, a Champions Trophy silver and bronze along with two Commonwealth Games bronze medals as well as European Championship bronzes. She is also one of the leading indoor hockey players in the UK.
Richard "Bibi" "Riccardo" Torriani was a Swiss ice hockey player and coach, and luge athlete.
William Sturrock Maxwell was a Scottish professional footballer and amateur cricketer.
Jonathan Christie is a field hockey player from Scotland, playing as a forward. He represented Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and played in the Euro Hockey League 2007-08 for Kelburne HC. His younger brother Michael is a member of Scotland’s men’s team.
David Ralph in Glasgow, Scotland is a former international field hockey player who played as a forward for Scotland. He earned his first cap in 1993 and played club hockey for Loughborough Students' Hockey Club.
Michael Christie is a male field hockey defender from Scotland, who earned his first cap for the Men's National Team in 2005. He plays club hockey for Kelburne HC. His older brother Jonathan is also a member of men's national squad. He was a member of the squad that competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, but missed the Delhi games in 2010 Commonwealth Games due to injury.
Kelburne Hockey Club is a Scottish field hockey club, founded in 1969 and based in Paisley. Kelburne today operates five senior men's teams, three senior women's teams and numerous junior teams at all age group levels. The club has dominated Scottish domestic hockey in recent seasons. Kelburne HC has also supplied the Scottish National Team with the vast majority of the Gents' team as well as consistently being represented in the Scotland national ladies team. The club has also had success in Europe.
Malcolm MacDonald was a Scottish professional footballer and manager, best remembered for his time as a utility player with Celtic and as a manager with Kilmarnock and Brentford. MacDonald managed the Scotland national team on a caretaker basis in 1966. He is a member of the Brentford Hall of Fame.
Nathan Walker is a Welsh born Australian professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for the Utica Comets in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). Walker, who was born in Wales, grew up in Australia and first played ice hockey there. He moved to the Czech Republic in 2007 in order to further his career, and joined the junior program of HC Vítkovice, a member of the Czech Extraliga. He first played for the senior team in 2011, becoming the first Australian ice hockey player to play for a professional senior team in Europe. Along with HC Vítkovice, Walker was loaned to several lower-level Czech teams.
Emily Maguire is a Scottish international field hockey player who plays as a defender. She represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She competed for the national team in the women's tournament, winning a bronze medal.
Alan Forsyth is a Scottish international field hockey player who plays as a forward for Scotland and Great Britain.
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