Calum MacRae

For Scottish journalist and film maker, see Callum Macrae.

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

Calum MacRae

Date of birth	(1980-01-26) 26 January 1980 (age 45)
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	14 st 8 lb (93 kg; 204 lb)
School	Earlston High School
University	Moray House Institute of Education
Rugby union career
Position(s) 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- Benetton (assistant coach)

Playing career

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

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]

MacRae is a qualified physical education teacher.