Jamie Alexander Swanson is a hard-working back-row forward who can play either blindside flanker or No.8.

He was called into the Scotland under-20 squad for the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship after impressing in the Scotland under-20A fixture against Japan under-20 on the Murrayfield back pitches that April. He has also represented Glasgow at under-16, under-17 and under-18.

Educated at the Glasgow Academy, he is now studying Applied Sports Science at the University of Edinburgh, and took part in an elite expedition to discover new parts of Greenland in 2009.