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The Lockerbie Academy former pupil, who graduated in 2008 with an HNC from the Scottish Agricultural College at Auchincruive in Ayrshire, has appeared for Glasgow at every age level from under-14 to under-18 was the Annan club’s under-18 player of the year in both 2005-2006 and the following season. He moved from Annan to Selkirk in 2008.
Alex played for the Scotland under-17 team who won all three of their matches in the international festival at Millfield School, Somerset, in April 2007. Then followed five games at inside centre for the national under-18 team in March and April 2008, including all three matches in the Six Nations Festival in Cork.
In October 2008 he was included in the Scottish Thistles’ squad for the SCC International Rugby Sevens the following month in Singapore, though he missed the trip because of injury. Five months later he made his international sevens debut playing the IRB World Series tournament in Hong Kong and then in the Adelaide (Australia) event a week later.
Alexander James Dunbar had played for Scotland’s under-17 and under-18 teams before he made a try-scoring under-20 debut on the left wing in the IRB Junior World Championship match against Samoa in Tokyo in June 2009. He went on to start in all five matches in that tournament, two on the left wing and the others at centre.
As Scottish Rugby Academy contracted player, he made his Glasgow Warriors debut in the 25-13 win against Ulster at Ravenhill in December 2009 before, thanks to his young age, he was again called up the to the 2010 U20 6 Nations and IRB Junior World Championship squad starting all but one game in 2010.
Dunbar signed his first professional contract with Glasgow Warriors at the start of the 2010/11 and was then selected by Graham Shiel for the Scotland 7s squad for the Wellington and Las Vegas tournaments in the HSBC Sevens World Series. |
