Calum MacRae

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Calum MacRae
Born (1980-01-26) 26 January 1980 (age 46)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight14 st 8 lb (93 kg; 204 lb)
SchoolEarlston High School
UniversityMoray House Institute of Education
Rugby union career
Position Assistant Coach - Defence
Current team Benetton
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Melrose
2003 South District 1 (0)
2005–2007 Border Reivers 22 (205)
2007–2009 Edinburgh 14 (6)
2009–2010 Worcester 8 (4)
2010–2011 Venezia Mestre 7 (47)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1998–1999 Scotland U19
1999–2000 Scotland U21 9 (?) (?)
2005 - 09 Scotland 7's 12 (?) (?)
2006 - 09 Scotland A 13 (?) (?)
Coaching career
Years Team
2011-14 Newcastle Falcons
2014-2017 Scotland 7s
2017-2022 Edinburgh
2022-2025 Benetton (assistant coach)
2025- Benetton (head coach)

Calum MacRae (born 26 January 1980 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the head coach for Benetton.[1] He was head coach of the Scotland rugby 7s team 2014–2017.

Playing career

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MacRae played rugby union as a centre and had also operated at fullback and fly-half.

After age grade rugby he played for a four-year period on the IRB Sevens World Series along with playing in the Celtic league for the Borders. He played his final tournament for Scotland at the 2005 RWC Sevens in Hong Kong. Following this he was in Frank Hadden's Scotland Training Squad for a 4-year period, however, MacRae never gained full honours. His international 15's career mainly consisted of three consecutive Churchill Cup Tournaments.

He was called up to the Scotland squad for the autumn tests in 2006[2] and for the 2008 Six Nations Championship.[3][4]

In 2009 he signed for Worcester Warriors.[5]

Coaching career

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He worked as a skills and attack coach at Newcastle Falcons from June 2011.[6]

In June 2014 it was announced that he would take over as the coach for the Scotland national rugby union 7's team for the 2014–15 season.[7]

In May 2017 he was announced as defence coach for Edinburgh Rugby.[8] He was the defence coach for Benetton from 2022 to 2025.[9][10]

MacRae is a qualified physical education teacher.

References

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