Some outdoor sports are set to resume today (Friday) in the town and surrounding area, following First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s easing of lockdown restrictions. Scotland has been in full lockdown for nearly ten weeks since the Covid-19 outbreak began, but last week Sturgeon announced that she would look at a phased exit beginning on May...
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Hawick Youth Rugby’s new director of rugby Davy Brand is delighted with the calibre of the coaching group that has been put together to work with the under-18s squad over the forthcoming season. When the campaign will start post-lockdown is still very much up in the air and in the hands of the Scottish Government and the...
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It remains anyone’s guess when the Border Amateur League will kick-off again, some ten weeks after the 2019/20 season was brought to a shuddering halt due to the Covid-19 crisis....
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Jim Borthwick is a big Celtic fan. Always has been and always will be. His great passion for football does not stop with his beloved Hoops though. The Hawick Royal Albert United chairman has been involved in local football for over 50 years. Player, manager, committee man, club chairman, he has done it all. “I...
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Six-year-old Ryan Hume was inspired by his mum Samantha’s athletic challenge during lockdown – so he took on his own and completed it....
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When legendary Hawick rugby commentator Bill McLaren describes someone as “the hardest hitting, hardest running forward I ever saw” you know that they must have been some player....
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Scott MacLeod’s playing days came to an end during the 2015/16 season, but because he is now working as a coach, has a nephew that plays for Scotland and a son that is mad keen on rugby, his links with the sport are as strong as ever....
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The greenkeeping teams at both Hawick and Minto golf clubs have been working hard to make sure their courses will be in great condition for the sport’s return on Thursday or the immediate days after that....
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Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg is at the heart of a new, young leadership group in the squad, according to head coach Gregor Townsend. When the Scots returned from the World Cup in Japan in October, Teri full-back Hogg asked Townsend if he could throw his hat into the ring for the skipper’s role....
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The matches may be some 24 years ago now, but Colin Turnbull can remember the semi-final and final of the first ever Scottish Cup in 1996 – when Hawick tasted glory – like they were yesterday. The Greens went into the last four tie with Melrose as underdogs because The Greenyards outfit had just won...
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Women’s football is without doubt growing in popularity. Statistics reveal that there are now more females playing the game at all sort of levels than ever before. And Hawick is no exception with the town’s Border Ladies holding their own against sides from the Central Belt. Formerly known as Hawick United Ladies Colts, the Border...
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Scott MacLeod will always look back on his Scotland rugby career with great fondness with two wins from two against England and an emotional match in Argentina particularly memorable. Having come to the sport fairly late aged 20, won trophies with Hawick and then turned professional with the Border Reivers in 2002, things continued to...
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Hawick Rugby Club are continuing to plan for their festival of rugby in August, but uncertainty over when the sport will be allowed to return is making things “very difficult”. For many years the club’s sevens tournament was played in the spring as part of the Kings of the Sevens campaign, but at the start...
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Hawick Golf Club captain Michael Patterson has hailed the “commitment and togetherness” of the membership as a return to playing the game in Scotland edges ever closer. Golf courses reopened in England on Wednesday, but the governing body north of the border, Scottish Golf, have not relaxed any restrictions as yet and are taking daily guidance from...
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From the fringes of Hawick United Colts as a raw 13-year-old to a league-winning manager, Steven Shields has crammed a lot into more than 20 years on the local football scene. He has spent the vast majority of his days with Hawick United and has also played for Hawick Royal Albert and been a member...
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Club captain Daniel Chandler has won two end-of-season awards for Hawick Royal Albert United, but must wait to collect his trophies. Individual awards were announced on Facebook this week after the first season since United and Royal Albert merged into one club came to a premature end due to coronavirus. The actual trophies will be...
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