Cailin's rugby scholarship

A teenage Scottish international rugby player from North Lanarkshire is set to take up a university scholarship in the United States.

- MICHAEL PRINGLE

Cailin Lardner, 17, who lives in Hartwood, was amongst the forwards named by the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) for the Scotland Rugby U18 Women's squad for the Six Nations festival tournament earlier this year.

The tournament was held at Wellington College in England in April this year. Cailin enjoyed a superb time away for her first caps and played from the start against France and Ireland—and was a replacement against Italy and in a historic win over England.

The teenager, who previously lived in Allanton, is a former pupil at St Patrick's Primary in Shotts and has been playing rugby since she was 13 years old.