Colin Stewart (born 6 January 1980 in

Bellshill Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, southeast of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell to the south, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton to the south ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

) is a former Scotland Under 21 international

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

player who played with

Glasgow Warriors Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and became t ...

and

Border Reivers Border reivers were Cattle raiding, raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. They included both Scotland, Scottish and England, English people, and they raided the entire border ...

. His regular playing position was

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. Starting off playing mini-rugby, Stewart began his rugby career playing for

East Kilbride RFC East Kilbride RFC are a rugby union side who are based in East Kilbride. History Established in 1968, their home games are played at Torrance House. The team currently compete in the and play all their home games at the Magnificent Torrance H ...

. His potential was spotted by the Glasgow District Rugby Union and he was selected as one of the Glasgow Thistle squad - then essentially an academy squad for

- that would receive rugby training in the summer of 1998 in New Zealand. The training was under the ex-Glasgow Warriors boss Kevin Greene. In the season 2000-01 he formally joined Glasgow. For the 2002-03 season Stewart joined

. While he was not in action for the Reivers, Stewart played for

Selkirk RFC Selkirk Rugby Football Club are a rugby union side based in Selkirk in the Borders, Scotland. They play in their home games at Philiphaugh, and compete in the Scottish Premiership (the highest tier of club rugby) and the Border League (the olde ...

. In 2006 he moved to England to play for

Plymouth Albion Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England. The present club was founded in 1920 from a merger between Plymouth RFC (founded 1876) and Devonport Albion RFC (founded 1876). Since 2003 they have pl ...

. He moved to play in France in 2009, where he played for Tarbees Pyrennes. He played 57 times for the French club in two seasons. After playing in France he returned to south-west England in 2011, where he now plays and coaches

Newton Abbot Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its 2011 population of 24,029 was estimated to reach 26,655 in 2019. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era as the home of the Sou ...

. He is also Head of the Rugby Academy at South Devon College. He has set up a Rugby 4 Kids programme to promote rugby to the under 7s. Stewart played for Scotland U19 and Scotland U21.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Colin 1980 births Rugby union locks Living people Glasgow Warriors players Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby players Plymouth Albion R.F.C. players Newton Abbot RFC players East Kilbride RFC players Border Reivers players Selkirk RFC players Expatriate rugby union players in France Scottish expatriate rugby union players Scottish expatriate sportspeople in France Rugby union players from South Lanarkshire Sportspeople from East Kilbride People educated at Duncanrig Secondary School