Perthshire squash participant Rory Stewart will make his debut on the Commonwealth Video games this summer time.
The previous Crieff Excessive scholar was this week chosen to drag on the Scotland colors at Birmingham 2022.
He has loved a robust 12 months and, again in March, lifted the Liverpool Cricket Membership Open on the PSA Challenger Tour.
Then the 25-year-old, initially from Muthill, would impress significantly on the WSF World Doubles Squash Championships in Glasgow.
Confidence throughout the crew is excessive after a sensational general efficiency at that occasion. The Scots claimed silver and bronze within the males’s occasion, bronze within the combined occasion and fifth place within the girls’s.
Heading to Birmingham with Stewart are Alan Clyne, Greg Lobban, Douglas Kempsell, Lisa Aitken and Georgia Adderley. The collection of six athletes - over the anticipated 4 - was mentioned to be an indication of the top quality of squash performed this 12 months and the good outcomes achieved.
Maggie Nonetheless, CEO of Scottish Squash, mentioned: “It’s implausible that squash can be effectively represented at this 12 months’s Commonwealth Video games, with six locations achieved.
“This permits us to herald the following technology of gamers, who now get the prospect to compete on the world stage. That is invaluable expertise and can put the crew in good stead for the longer term.
“The gamers have been doing all the things attainable to be in the very best form for the video games and it's nice to see the rewards, each within the high quality of the outcomes and participant type.
“We’d prefer to thank Workforce Scotland Commonwealth Video games and all our companions for his or her help on the street to those much-anticipated video games. We will’t wait to get to Birmingham and see what Scotland can obtain.”