Over the past 2 months, almost 130 junior players from all across Scotland have been busy training and trialling for the second year of the Flying Scots programme. After many deliberations and a few last minute changes, the staff across all programmes have made their selections for both the Intra-Squads competition and the International competition in 2019.
Intra Squads – East Vs West
This year’s Intra Squads will again see a battle between East and West as both teams per gender combine their scores to be crowned Flying Scots Intra Squads Champions 2019. West and East will have two teams per gender but this year, each team will have their own colour of top. The East teams will be FS Blue and FS Red, with the West teams being FS Navy and FS White.
The morning round of matches will each last an hour and feature a points scoring system similar to last year which rewards the first team to 8 points per set, teams that reach 21 points in a losing set and points for the set winner. The afternoon will go to a more traditional scoring system of a best of 3 set match between Blue and Navy & White and Red. There can only be one winner with the East desperate to retain the trophy they won last year.
Then on the Sunday, all the players will be heading down to the St Andrews West Sands to try their hand at some Beach Volleyball. The players will receive a Beach Volleyball masterclass to introduce them to a different discipline. They will then compete again in their regions but this time in a more relaxed, festival format.
Intra Squads West Girls & East Girls Selections
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FS Navy |
FS White |
FS Blue |
FS Red |
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Laura Baillie |
Aimee Clark |
Lucila Cheesman |
Eva Blair |
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Erin Brown |
Niamh Davidson |
Fynn Donaldson |
Jessica Brown |
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Katerina Constantinou |
Erin Hendry |
Jessica Gillies |
Katie Dobson |
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Orla Hamilton |
Katy Jo Ritchie |
Daisy Greer |
Maddy Ford |
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Bethan Hendry |
Tamara Jovic |
Nicola Kerr |
Jemma Harris |
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Lauren Hislop |
Amy McCann |
Shelby Leavenworth |
Zoe Hopkins |
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Sarah Lamont |
Rosa McQueen |
Rachel McLean |
Ellie Jack |
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Lia Matteoni |
Fay McTrusty |
Rebecca McLean |
Lucy Kelly |
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Ruth McVeigh |
Murrin Poole |
Emi-Mireilla Munoz |
Anne McPhail |
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Katie Mowat |
Keira Watson |
Catriona Nespolo |
Maddie Moorad |
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Lucy Paterson |
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Anna Richardson |
Rebecca Simpson |
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Ellie Wylie |
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Lisa Waldie |
Irina Statescu |
Intra Squads West Boys & East Boys Selections
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FS Navy |
FS White |
FS Blue |
FS Red |
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Matthew Allan |
Alik Aleynik |
Yusef Butt |
Kieran Bradley |
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Daniel Baird |
Donald Bolton |
Haydon Campbell |
Troy Hayton |
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Toby Clark |
Matthew Braes |
Sam Grant |
Massimo La Rosa |
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Oliver Galbraith |
Jesse Browne |
Sam Jones |
Ben McLachlan |
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Ellis Hunter |
Harry Dorward |
Markus Kan |
Owen Morrison |
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Gabriel Lorimer |
Adam Hamill |
Robert Laurenson |
Joseph Pinsky |
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Logan McDonald |
Al-Harreth Musbahi |
Jamie Leitch |
Ewan Ramsay |
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Syed Naqvi |
Akash Punchi |
Euan Murray |
Finn Thompson |
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Harry Orr |
Callum Wing Hong |
Fraser Purdie |
Cole Turnbull |
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James Orr |
Juan Wong |
Adam Sebai |
Jamie Barber |
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Roy McGuinness |
Kenan Tuzcu |
Cameron Traa |
Aayush Chhetri |
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Charlie Dorward |
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Oren Wilson |
Gavin Hayles |
International Competition
For the other Flying Scots tournament, we are delighted to announce the addition of Ireland to this year’s competition in addition to our returning teams of Northern Ireland and North West England. This is increasing the number of teams competing in this year’s Flying Scots International Invitational competition to 5 teams per gender. The Flying Scots International Tournament 2019 will be at the University of St Andrews from Friday 30th August until Sunday 1st September.
Get Involved!
If you, like our amazing team of volunteers, are inspired by the Flying Scots Programme, and would like to lend your support to the team pioneering a positive future for volleyball in Scotland, then why not get in touch.
If you are a parent or carer, then we have a specific group of parents who fundraise money to spend on extras for the players such as t-shirts, an end of year celebration, or anything else they can think of. If this interests you then please join their Facebook group.
If you want to try your hand at volunteering at a major sporting event, then get in touch with the Flying Scots team for more information.
