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  • Colin Montgomerie opens community golf course in Glasgow

    Colin Montgomerie opens community golf course in Glasgow

    Colin Montgomerie OBE, one of Scotland’s greatest golfers, today officially opened Ruchill Community Golf Facility this Thursday, 17 September. The course - which Colin Montgomerie helped to design - is reopening after a £2.5million refurbishment.

  • Red Alert! Nevis Range now open for red route riders!

    Red Alert! Nevis Range now open for red route riders!

    Nevis Red, The UK’s only red graded cross country mountain bike trail accessed by mountain gondola, was officially opened today (Tuesday 25 August) by BBC Sport presenter and avid mountain bike rider Dougie Vipond at Nevis Range, Fort William, in the heart of the Outdoor Capital of the UK.

  • Christmas celebrations for Youth Games athletes

    Christmas celebrations for Youth Games athletes

    At Edinburgh Castle this evening (22 December), First Minister Jack McConnell and Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Patricia Ferguson hosted a reception to recognise the outstanding achievements of the Commonwealth Youth Games team who returned to Scotland earlier this month with a haul of 52 medals. One of 24 countries, taking part in nine sports over three days in Bendigo, Australia, Scotland finished in a very creditable fourth place, exceeding their own expectations.

  • Walk Jog Run Moray website launch

    Walk Jog Run Moray website launch

    A ‘Walk-Jog-Run’ partnership in Moray, that is thought to be the first of its kind in Scotland, has just launched its own user-friendly website.

  • Youth Development Manager moves on

    Youth Development Manager moves on

    As of the 5th June 2009, sportscotland’s Youth Development Manager embedded within the Camanachd Association, Garry Reid, is to be promoted to partnership manager.

  • Students join national network of sporting excellence

    Students join national network of sporting excellence

    A new generation of Scotland’s talented young sports stars have been offered scholarships at university or college as part of the Winning Students network, an initiative which aims to put Scotland’s sporting talent on the world stage.

  • Committee calls for radical overhaul of teaching of PE

    Committee calls for radical overhaul of teaching of PE

    There has been a lamentable failure to deliver the target set in 2004 for two hours’ quality physical education for every school pupil, according to a report published today by the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee.

  • Legacy of the Games will keep Scotland active

    Legacy of the Games will keep Scotland active

    Keeping active is not just for sports stars. Getting millions moving will be the lasting legacy from the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow said Sports Minister Shona Robison today.

  • sportscotland invest in SALSC

    sportscotland invest in SALSC

    At the Scottish Association of Local Sports Councils (SALSC) Annual Conference at Airth Castle on Saturday 28 February, sportscotland Chair Louise Martin CBE announced annual funding to the organisation.

  • Nations unite on Scottish summits

    Nations unite on Scottish summits

    Mountaineers from around the world will team up with British climbers to tackle routes in the Scottish mountains, as part of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC)’s International Meet taking place this week (22 February to 1 March).

  • Commonwealth Games team staff announced for Delhi

    Commonwealth Games team staff announced for Delhi

    With only 596 days until the start of the next Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October 2010, Commonwealth Games Scotland (CGS) announced today the people appointed to form the general team management. This group of key individuals, supported by the CGS Board, will lead the planning and preparation of the team and will be joined by other staff over the next 20 months.

  • Coaching Highland win UK Coaching Award

    Coaching Highland win UK Coaching Award

    Coaching Highland was announced winner at the UK Coaching Awards 2008 hosted by Sports Coach UK on Wednesday 17th December in a glittering ceremony at the Dorchester in London’s Mayfair. They won the new category ‘Agency in Support of Coaching’ and were up against SkillsActive (the sector skills council for the active leisure and learning industry in the UK) and The Football Foundation (funded by the Premier League, The FA and the Government to fund grassroots football across England).

  • 44 Scots head for Youth Games in India

    44 Scots head for Youth Games in India

    On one of the busiest days of the year at Glasgow Airport, most people were heading off on holiday for the October break. But for 44 young Scots it was the start of the trip of a lifetime, selected to represent their country at the III Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India (12-18 October 2008).

  • Why is physical activity such a turn off ?

    Why is physical activity such a turn off ?

    Groundbreaking new research [1] begins this week in a bid to uncover why the nation’s women are universally failing to participate in enough sport and physical activity.

  • Child protection programme launch

    Child protection programme launch

    basketballscotland are pleased to launch their child protection programme, in conjunction with the launch of Scotland’s new 2006 Accord for the Protection of Children in Scottish Sport.

  • Scotland's young sports stars meet the Olympians

    Scotland's young sports stars meet the Olympians

    As Olympic medallists across the length and breadth of the UK arrived in Scotland for the British Olympic Association’s fundraising Gold Ball in Edinburgh last night (25 April), Steve Cram MBE, Allison Curbishley and Rhona Martin MBE took time out to meet with some of Scotland’s brightest young sporting talent.

  • UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Under New Management from 2006

    UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Under New Management from 2006

    The international governing body for cycling, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has confirmed today that it has awarded the exclusive management and marketing rights of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup to a partnership made up of two sports companies, GESTEV of Canada and 23 Degrees Sports Management of Spain.

  • Aberdeen to host 2009 European Curling Championships

    Aberdeen to host 2009 European Curling Championships

    The European Curling Federation has today announced that the 2009 European Curling Championships have been awarded to Aberdeen. The event, which will be the last major international curling event before the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010, will be run in the new Curl Aberdeen facility and the Linx Ice Arena.

  • Young Scots’ success down under

    Young Scots’ success down under

    Congratulations to all of the athletes on Team GB for their fantastic performance at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney where they won 68 medals, 26 of them gold.

  • Feast of Equestrian Sport and recognition of achievement

    Feast of Equestrian Sport and recognition of achievement

    For 3 days (27, 28, 29 October) the Ingliston House Stud, Renfrewshire, was home to the Scottish Equestrian Association (SEA) Equine Fair. Olympic Dressage Coach Ferdi Eilberg (despite nursing an injured shoulder) and John Ledingham, World Class Show Jumping Coach and Irish Team Trainer, put various SEA/sportscotland-funded young riders through their paces in dressage, show jumping and eventing, in front of an attentive audience.

  • Members appointed to the board of <b />sport</b>scotland

    Members appointed to the board of sportscotland

    The Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Patricia Ferguson, today announced the appointment of John Fraser, Graeme Marchbank, David Sole and the reappointment of Steven Grimmond to the board of sportscotland

  • Legacy of the Games will keep Scotland active

    Legacy of the Games will keep Scotland active

    Keeping active is not just for sports stars. Getting millions moving will be the lasting legacy from the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow said Sports Minister Shona Robison today.

  • First Minister launches games legacy blueprint

    First Minister launches games legacy blueprint

    £23.5 million planned investment to ensure Scotland capitalises on the economic, social and cultural advantages of the 2014 Commonwealth Games was announced by the First Minister in Glasgow today.

  • Fit for Girls Programme in the News!

    Fit for Girls Programme in the News!

    The Herald ran a story on Sunday 7th February celebrating the success of one of the dance clubs started through the Youth Sport Trust and sportscotland Fit for Girls programme. The Bollywood Dance Club at Woodfarm High School, East Renfrewshire, was brought to life in the Herald by journalist Rebecca McQuillan who came along to get a lesson herself in this fun and energetic sport.

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