Niall MacPhee (born 19 September 1985) is a

shinty Shinty ( gd, camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, an ...

player from Fort William,

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 ...

. He plays for

Fort William Shinty Club Fort William Shinty Club is a shinty club from Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland. The club has two sides in the Shinty league system, a first team which was relegated from the Premiership in 2013 and a reserve side in North Division Two. The ...

."Rival captains eager for cup glory"
''The Press and Journal'' 12 October 2010 Retrieved 12 October 2010

Playing career

MacPhee appeared in his first

Camanachd Cup The Camanachd Association Challenge Cup known as the Camanachd Cup (or less commonly the Scottish Cup) is the premier competition in the sport of shinty. It is one of the five trophies considered to be part of the Grand Slam in the sport of shin ...

final at the age of 16 against Kingussie. He has featured in 7 finals in a row. He will be captain of Fort William in the 2010 final. He also won the Premier Division in 2006 for Fort William. He was also successful at University Shinty for

Strathclyde University The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

, winning the

Littlejohn Vase The Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase, also known as the Littlejohn Vase, is a trophy in university shinty. It is the second most expensive sporting trophy in Scotland, after the Scottish Cup. The Littlejohn Vase is competed for by univers ...

on several occasions. He is also a regular part of the

Scotland national shinty team The Scotland national shinty team is the team selected to represent Scotland and the sport of shinty in the annual composite rules Shinty/Hurling International Series against the Ireland national hurling team. The team is selected by the Cama ...

. He is known as ''Rhino'' by the fans. As shinty is an

amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ...

sport, MacPhee works as a sports surface engineer based in

Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

and has carried out work for Uefa. MacPhee is a sports surface engineer based in Edinburgh and has carried out work for Sports Labs Ltd. He is an advocate of the use of synthetic surfaces in shinty. He also designed a prototype caman for First Shinty which won a design award."Students' designs of tomorrow, today"
www.strath.ac.uk 24 May 2007 Retrieved 13 October 2010 MacPhee never heard back from the Camanachd Association and the project was never developed.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macphee, Niall Living people Shinty players People from Fort William, Highland 1985 births