Date of birth | 30 October 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 91 kg (201 lb; 14 st 5 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Ross McCann (born 30 October 1997) is a Scottish rugby player who plays as a winger. [1]
From a sporting family, he and his brothers Ali McCann, who is a footballer who plays for Preston North End F.C., and Lewis McCann who plays for Dunfermline F.C., are all from Edinburgh, born to an English mother and a Northern Irish father. [2]
Ross McCann went to school in Cramond and then the Royal High School, Edinburgh and was a school friend of Charlie Shiel with whom he also played for the Royal High Corstorphine RFC and represented the under-20s for Scotland together. McCann went on then to play for Stewart's Melville RFC and Melrose RFC. [3] He signed a full-time contract to play in Scotland's sevens squad in 2018.
In March 2021 he was named in the Great Britain Rugby Sevens training squad ahead of the 2020 Summer Games. [4] On 18 June 2021 McCann was confirmed in the official Britain squad to travel to Tokyo. [5]
In January 2024 he was named in the Scotland squad for the Six Nations on 16 January 2024. [6]
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