Strathspey Camanachd
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| Full name | Strathspey Camanachd Club |
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd Shrath Spè |
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| Nickname | Strath Cam |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Ground | Grantown Grammar School |
| Manager | Peter Tinney |
| League | North Division Two |
| 2016 | 10th |
Strathspey Camanachd is a shinty club based in the area around Grantown-on-Spey, Strathspey, Scotland, currently competing in the Marine Harvest North Division 3. The club was formed in 2011 and admitted into senior league shinty in 2012.[8]
In the late 1800s there were 12 shinty clubs across the Badenoch and Strathspey area, which would indicate the large part the sport played in the communities at the time. Grantown-on-Spey formed the first shinty club in Strathspey in 1892. Over the next few years, clubs began appearing all over the district with clubs forming in Nethy Bridge (1893), Boat of Garten (1893), Carrbridge (1893), Dulnain Bridge (1894) and Aviemore (1900).
Player numbers dwindled over the passing years and decades for each of these clubs for a number of reasons, which meant that a number of the clubs often went in and out of abstinence.
Shinty remained much stronger in nearby Badenoch where Kingussie Camanachd Club and Newtonmore Camanachd Club were beginning to gather steam. With a much greater interest in the sport came more players wanting to play and inevitably, came great success. Both of these clubs remain amongst the best in the sport at the moment as success continues.
Success was less profound in Strathspey area but not totally absent, with Duthil-Carrbridge winning the Strathdearn Cup in 1914 followed by Grantown Camanachd Club, or the Grantown Butchers as they were known, winning the same trophy in 1921, beating Glenurquhart Shinty Club 7–1 in the final.
The popularity of the sport fell in the area accompanied by the increase in popularity of football and the outbreak of war in 1939 meant there were no shinty clubs left in the Strath by the 1940s. Players in the area would have to travel to play for Kincraig Camanachd or Boleskine Camanachd.
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