Lochcarron Camanachd
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| Full name | Lochcarron Camanachd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd Loch Carrainn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | The Kishorn Camandoes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1883 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Battery Park, Lochcarron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Fraser Mackenzie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | 9th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lochcarron Camanachd is a shinty club from Wester Ross, Scotland. It has two teams, a senior team which was relegated from the Marine Harvest Premier Division in 2007 and a reserve team which plays in the North Division Three.
[edit] History
Founded in 1883, Lochcarron Camanachd is one of the oldest in the west Highlands. In its first century the Club won the Strathdearn Cup eight times and the Sutherland Cup six times as well as winning its league division on many occasions. The First team won the National First Division Championship in 2002 and the Balliemore Cup also in 2002. However, the club narrowly avoided relegation in 2006. After finishing bottom of the premier league, they had to defeat Kyles Athletic in a playoff.
The club was relegated in 2007 after a prolonged season, with their final match being played against Inveraray in Kiltarlity on 8th December 2007 - a 2-2 draw was not enough to overhaul Oban Camanachd.
The club was voted Marine Harvest Club of the Year 2002. The club was chosen as the Highland Sports Development Association Club of the Year 2003, a first for the sport of shinty.
Today the Club has a reputation for its youth development and represents shinty in Sportscotland’s national youth sports programme. The club actively supports shinty at both its local senior school Plockton High and Lochcarron Primary School and through the recently formed Ross & Sutherland Shinty Development Association.
The club plays at the Battery Park in Lochcarron (opposite the Bank of Scotland) on its newly extended pitch, complete with modern changing rooms.
Lochcarron have local rivals Kinlochshiel in which they compete annually in the Tommy Ross memorial cup.
[edit] External links
- Lochcarron Homepage
- Lochcarron Camanachd Blog
- Profile of 2007 Squad
- Lochcarron Camanachd @ shinty.com
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