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Adam Roxburgh

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Adam Roxburgh
Birth nameAdam John Roxburgh
Date of birth (1970-04-14) 14 April 1970 (age 54)
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight15 st 6 lb (98 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) flanker
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
-1996
1996-
Kelso
Border Reivers
Kelso
()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1997-1998 Scotland 8 0
Coaching career
Years Team
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.

Early life

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Roxburgh was born in Edinburgh.[1]

Rugby playing career

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Player profile: Adam Roxburgh, Scotland". ESPN. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d "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.