Glenurquhart Shinty Club
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| Full name | Glenurqhuart Shinty Club | ||
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd Ghleann Urchadain | ||
| Nickname | The Glen | ||
| Founded | 1885 | ||
| Ground | Blairbeg Park, Drumnadrochit | ||
| Manager | Iain MacLeod | ||
| League | Premier Division | ||
| 2016 | 6th | ||
| Reserve Manager | Chris Surtees | ||
| League | North Division One | ||
| 2016 | 4th | ||
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Glenurquhart Shinty Club is a shinty team which plays in Drumnadrochit on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland. It draws its players from the part of the Great Glen which encompasses Drumnadrochit, Lewiston and Glenurquhart. The club has been existence since 1885. They won their first senior trophy, the MacAulay Cup in 2012. After 2013 and 2014 saw them lose two successive MacTavish Cups, they are currently the holders as of 2015.
The club presently has two teams, the first team, which plays in the Premier Division and the second team, which won North Division Two in 2009 and 2010.
Glenurquhart played a match against Strathglass on the 12 February 1887, at the Bught Park, Inverness and in a landmark game concerning the establishment of the first official rules of Shinty. Glen Urquhart lost a game, played with 22 players on each side 2–0. This fixture was to be repeated on 12 January 2007 in Inverness as the opening centrepiece of the Highland 2007 celebrations in Scotland. This game was cancelled as was a replay the next year in 2008. The two teams play each other every year in a challenge match.
The club has had very poor historic success with purple patches in the 1960s and early 1990s. The club participated in the Fairytale Final of the Camanachd Cup in 1988, succumbing 4–2 to Kingussie Camanachd. The Glen were relegated from the National Premier in 1999. [1]
In 2007, the club reached the Balliemore Cup Final but lost 1–0 to Kinlochshiel.
In 2008 the Glen have reached the Mactavish Cup Final for the first time in 26 years and won North Division One, winning promotion to the Premier Division. The second team also added to the success of the club in 2008 when it won North Division Three and was promoted to North Division Two in 2009. The club were named Marine Harvest Club of the Year for 2008 on 20 June 2009, the same day that the club won the inaugural Marine Harvest Clash of the Camans[2]. The Glenurquhart second team won the North Division Two title on 10 October 2009, which would have seen the team promoted to North Division One in 2010 but the club committee turned this down.
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