Shout out to former Elite Rugby Scholar, Eilidh MacGilvray on her step up to the pro game with Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic Challenge.
Credit to Inverness Courier for their piece below on Eilidh's time in the States! ๐๐บ๐ธ
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Highland Rugby Clubโs Eilidh MacGilvray believes her time at university in the USA has prepared her for life with the Glasgow Warriors.
The 21-year-old has been included in the Warriors squad for this seasonโs Celtic Challenge, which pits womenโs teams from Scotland, Ireland and Wales against each other in a round-robin competition.
It is a semi-professional set-up based out of Scotstoun Stadium, bringing opportunities for women to bridge the gap between the club game and the international stage.
However, MacGilvray may have been better prepared for that environment than most after spending three years at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Playing at the top level of collegiate sports, students are treated like professional athletes, and sometimes MacGilvray and her teammates sat on a bus for as many as 12 hours to get to matches.
Still living in Boat of Garten, that travel point has come in particularly useful as she travels to Glasgow for training and matches, with the teamโs next outing coming at Scotstoun this Saturday against The Clovers.
โIt was really fun, and really intense,โ MacGilvray said of her time in Atlanta.
โI actually think that helped me coming back into the Celtic Challenge. You would train for two hours a day, every day, for your strength and conditioning.
โYouโre expected to be committed, and I was used to the travel because we would be on a bus for 12 hours to Penn State all the time, so that set me up really well for this.
โWe were playing at the highest collegiate level, so it was so competitive.
โIโm used to that competitive environment, so that has set me up really well I think.โ
Even after going to the other side of the world and back, MacGilvray has found some home comforts in Glasgow.
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