Colin Rhys Gregor captained the Scots’ seven-a-side squad for the first time when they competed in the IRB World Series tournaments in Wellington (New Zealand) and San Diego (USA) in February 2009. He continued in that role when Scotland won the Plate competition in the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai the following month.

In that Dubai tournament Colin scored 55 of Scotland’s 130 points with five tries and 15 conversions. He is the Scotland sevens’ top scorer in IRB World Series competitions with 502 points. He passed 400 during the Wellington tournament in February 2009 and reaching 500 three months later in Scotland’s extra-time semi-final defeat against South Africa. He notched 38 points (4 tries, 9 conversions) in the Twickenham tournament that year in helping Scotland to their first Cup semi-final, and he added 24 to his tally a week later at Murrayfield.

In the final tournament of the 2007-2008 series, played at Murrayfield, he helped his country to the Cup quarter-final and on to the Plate final. As soon as that tournament was over he was off to North America in the Scotland A squad for the Barclays Churchill Cup, where he played in all three games.

Colin was the key goal-kicker in Scotland’s top-eight finish in the IRB Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens in December 2004, continuing that role alongside Clark Laidlaw in the subsequent South African tournament and the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong, where he helped his country to the quarter-finals. Colin also played in the IRB Singapore Sevens in April 2005, when the Scots again reached the Cup competition. In 2006 he assisted in Scotland’s bowl-winning successes at the IRB’s New Zealand and USA Sevens before heading to Melbourne (Australia) for the Commonwealth Games and then on to the IRB events in Hong Kong. He also represented Scotland in the Hong Kong Sevens in 2003 and 2004, winning the Plate in the latter, and he continued his sevens’ success by winning the Bowl with Scotland in Singapore in 2005. He was recalled to the sevens squad for the final two tournaments in the 2006-2007 IRB series at Twickenham and Murrayfield, and he was in the Scotland squad for four of the IRB’s eight 2007-2008 world series tournaments.

Colin began his playing days with Strathendrick before moving to New Zealand, where he joined Ponsonby. He made his debut for Watsonians against Grangemouth in 2000.

He has also played nine games for Scotland A, all bar one as a replacement. Most recently he played against Italy A in Biella during February 2010. In November 2009 he kicked two conversions in the 38-7 win against Tonga at Netherdale, Galashiels. His debut at that level was against New Zealand Maori in Edmonton in the 2006 Barclays Churchill Cup tournament, and his one start was at scrum half in the 2008 equivalent tournament’s final against England Saxons in Chicago: in that tournament he had tries against Argentina and the Saxons.

Colin was added to the Scotland squad for the training camp in Spain in preparation for the 2008 Autumn Tests.