Grant Gilchrist

Grant Gilchrist
Rugby union career
Full name	Grant Stuart Gilchrist
Date of birth	(1990-08-09) 9 August 1990
Place of birth	Stirling, Scotland
Height	2.02 m (6 ft 7 ½ in)^[1]
Weight	120 kg (18 st 13 lb)
School	Lornshill Academy
Playing career
Position	Lock
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Alloa RFC Stirling County RFC
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2011–	Edinburgh	77	(5)
correct as of 6 September 2015.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2008–2009 2009–2010 2012–	Scotland U19 Scotland U20 Scotland	8 8 12	(0) (0) (5)
correct as of 27 September 2015.

Grant Gilchrist (born 9 August 1990) is a Scottish rugby union player who plays for Edinburgh Rugby in the Pro12.

He plays at lock.

Background

Gilchrist was schooled at Lornshill Academy, and played with Alloa RFC before moving on to Stirling County RFC.

Initially an Elite Development player at Edinburgh and following a stint in New Zealand as part of the John Macphail Scholarship, he made his first senior appearance in a 34–13 win over Cardiff Blues in September 2011. He has subsequently become a regular at Murrayfield, and is currently the club's vice-captain.^[2]

International career

Gilchrist has represented Scotland at under-18, under-19, under-20 levels and more received his first full cap for Scotland against France in the 2013 Six Nations Championship at the Stade de France, aged 22. He captained Scotland for the first time on 20 June 2014 against Argentina,^[3] having scored his first international try against Canada the previous week.^[4]

Gilchrist was named as captain for Scotland's 2014 Autumn Test campaign, but was forced to withdraw the same week of that announcement when he broke his arm while playing for Edinburgh against Lyon.^[5] Complications with this injury also led him to miss the 2015 Six Nations Championship and the rest of the 2014–15 Pro12 season.

Edinburgh Rugby squad

Forwards	Andress Berghan Bradbury Bresler Cochrane Coman (c) Dell Dickinson Du Preez Ford Gilchrist Hardie Manu McInally McKenzie Nel Ritchie Shiells Sutherland A. Toolis B. Toolis Turner Watson

Backs	Allen Beard Brown Burleigh Cuthbert Dean Fife Fowles Helu Hidalgo-Clyne Hoyland Johnstone Kennedy Kinghorn McLennan Scott Strauss Te Rure

Coach	Solomons

Club squads

Edinburgh – 2015–16 Pro12 season

Forwards	Andress Berghan Bradbury Bresler Cochrane Coman Dell Dickinson du Preez Ford Grant Hardie Manu McInally McKenzie Nel Ritchie Shiells Sutherland A. Toolis B. Toolis Turner Watson (Not used:Gilchrist)

Backs	Allen Beard Brown Burleigh Cuthbert Dean Fife Fowles Helu Hidalgo-Clyne Hoyland Kennedy Kinghorn McLennan Scott Strauss Tonks (Not used: Te Rure) (Others used: Johnstone)

Coach	Alan Solomons

Edinburgh – 2014–15 Pro12 season

Forwards	Andress Atkins Berghan Blake Bresler Cochrane Coman Dell Denton Dickinson du Preez Ford Gilchrist Grant Hilterbrand Leonardi McInally McKenzie Nel Ritchie Shiells B. Toolis Turner Watson (Not used:A. Toolis) (Academy player(s) used: Bradbury, Sutherland)

Backs	Beard Bezuidenhout Brown Burleigh Cuthbert Domínguez Fife Fowles Hart Heathcote Hidalgo-Clyne Hoyland Kennedy McLennan Scott Strauss Te Rure Tonks Visser (Not used: Dean, Farndale)

Coach	Alan Solomons

International squads

Scotland squad – 2015 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Brown Bryce Cowan (Replaced Gilchrist) Denton Dickinson Ford Gilchrist Grant J. Gray R. Gray Hardie Nel Reid Strauss Strokosch Swinson Welsh Wilson

Backs	Bennett Hidalgo-Clyne Hogg Horne Laidlaw (c) Lamont Maitland Pyrgos Russell Scott Seymour Weir Vernon Visser

Coach	Head Coach: Cotter; Assistant coaches: Taylor, Hodge, Humphreys

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by Finlay Gillies	John Macphail Scholarship Grant Gilchrist, Harry Leonard, George Turner 2011	Succeeded by Jonny Gray, Gregor Hunter

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 31, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.