Meet the new sports captains for Glasgow

Black and yellow, black and yellow


Glasgow is the cream of the Scottish crop, with more grit than Edinburgh and don’t even get me started on Strathclyde.

We’ve compiled a list of all the incoming sports captains for Glasgow so you know just who to look out for once you decide to get off the sofa.


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Netball

Holly Beaton, 4th year, Law (Club Captain)

What’s your favourite night? Post Taxi Cup (Varsity) Sanctuary.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Deadlift 30kg.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Pasta. Lots of it.

Tell us something about you others won’t knowI’m one-eighth Swedish.

Hockey

Max “The Junkyard Dog” McKay, 3rd year, Astrophysics (Men’s Club Captain)

Where do you live? Govan.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Bench 110kg, deadlift 170kg and squat 150kg.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Doing a really difficult Sudoku.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I hold the Guinness World Record for fastest Hockey ball strike ever.


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Rugby Union

Fraser Christie, 4th year, Law (Men’s 1st Team Captain)

Fraser (Right)

Where do you live? West end of Glasgow.

What’s your favourite night? Wednesdays at Sanctuary.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Eating as much food as I can the night before.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I road tripped the length of India in a rickshaw last summer for charity.

Amy McGlashan, 4th year, History & Sociology (Women’s 1st Team Captain)

Where do you live? Stirling.

What’s your favourite night? Dominoes Two for Tuesdays.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Squat 70kg, deadlift 70kg and bench 45kg.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Red Bull, Arnold Schwarzenegger and plaiting my hair.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: My greatest desire in life is to have two French bulldogs named Ronnie and Reggie. 

Football

Becky Bradley, 5th year, Medicine (Women’s Club Captain)

Where do you live? Living at home.

What’s your favourite night? Wednesday night at Viper for our socials.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Looking up videos of Tom Rogic’s last minute winners.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I’m also captain of the Medics Women’s Football team.


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Athletics

Ross Fraser, Postgraduate, History (Men’s Club Captain)

Where do you live? Glasgow West End.

What’s your favourite night? Art school or Sub Club.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Bench 40kg and squat 60kg.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Listening to some hype music during my warm up. ‘Take Me Out’ by Frank Ferdinand and ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana are probably my go-to songs.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I competed at the World Youth Games in Sweden for three years in a row, and I know more about 80’s music, whisky and World War II trivia than anyone else in the club.

Ana Bacallado, 2nd year, Psychology and Business (Women’s Captain)

What’s your favourite night? Night after the Taxi cup at Sanctuary.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Bench 60kg 1RM, squat 80kg, and deadlift 120kg.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Honey is very important and I wear my good luck wristband on my left hand.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I was born in Venezuela – I moved to Spain when I was young. This made me love travelling to the point that I now spend all my money on it.


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Basketball

Stella Dobson, 2nd year, Psychology and Sociology (Women’s 1st Team Captain)

Where do you live? Woodlands.

What’s your favourite night? Hive Thursdays.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Squat 60kg, bench 20kg and deadlift 50kg.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Coco Pops Bar and a Lucozade.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I have three facial scars.

Lacrosse

Dominic Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, 4th year, Chemical Physics (Men’s 1st Team Captain)

Where do you live? Glasgow’s West End.

What’s your favourite night? Wednesday night at Viper.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Bench 87kg, deadlift 140kg and squat 120kg – my most recent PB.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? I normally take some pre-workout before a match and listen to as many rap songs I can’t understand the words of as possible.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I won the Spirit of Lacrosse Award for Scotland at the U19 Lacrosse World Championships in Coquitlam, Canada last summer.


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Rowing

Callum Sinclair, 4th year, Mechanical engineering with Aeronautics (Men’s Captain)

Callum (left)

Where do you live? Glasgow West End.

What’s your favourite night? Rowing socials of course at Hive.

What are you currently lifting in the gym? Bench 80kg and deadlift 150kg.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Usually when the crew is in a minibus we throw on some country tunes.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I switched from rugby to rowing when I came to Glasgow.

Rebecca Vest, 5th year, French MA (Women’s Captain)

Where do you live? West End of Glasgow.

What’s your favourite night? Thursdays at Hive.

Tell us something about you others won’t know: I once had to shampoo and blow dry a cow for a cattle show.


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