Adam Roxburgh

Background

Roxburgh was born in Edinburgh.

Career

He was known for his entertaining play in rugby sevens games. He played club rugby for Kelso Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He made his international rugby debut on 22 November 1997 against Australia at Murrayfield. His last appearance was against Australia at Brisbane during the 1998 Scotland rugby union tour of Oceania.

Roxburgh was a talented rugby sevens player.

When many of his rugby-playing contemporaries turned professional in 1997, Roxburgh remained with the firm of precision tool makers, Abbey Tool and Gauge in Kelso, who had been his first employer from school. He retired from club rugby in 2005.

By 2008 he was coaching the Kelso sevens team and the Kelso second fifteen. He took over as a head coach at Kelso from 2015.

Achievements

• With Kelso he competed in the Dubai Sevens, 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens and has won three Kings of the Sevens. In 1997, he won the Middlesex Sevens with the Barbarians.