Calum MacRae, who joined Edinburgh Rugby from Border Reivers in summer 2007, was Scotland A’s full back in all three matches in the Barclays Churchill Cup tournament in Canada in June 2006, and he continued in that role for the match in against Australia A at McDiarmid Park, Perth, as well as playing as a replacement in the A international win against Italy on the same ground the following February. Later in 2007 he played in Scotland A’s three Churchill Cup matches in England, twice at outside centre and once as a replacement. Following that tournament he was included among five uncapped players in Scotland’s preparation squad for the Rugby World Cup.

Though he missed out on that tournament he was back in the national squad for the December and January preparation for the 2008 RBS Six Nations, and he added to his Scotland A honours in playing at full back in the 37-15 win against Italy A at Mogliano, near Venice, in February 2008 and scoring a try in the 67-7 victory against Ireland A at McDiarmid Park three weeks later. He continued in the A team for the Barclays Churchill Cup in North America in June 2008, playing at inside centre in all three matches and scoring a try against Canada in the opening game.

Previously, Calum had represented the Scottish Borders at under-18, under-19, under-21, and senior levels, Scottish Districts under-18, and Scotland under-19 and under-21. While with Stewart’s Melville FP, he was in the Scotland under-19 team who beat England in the FIRA Junior World Championship in Wales in 1998-99, and the following season, after a move to Melrose, he was vice-captain against Italy under-21 as well as playing for Scotland in the 2000 SANZAR under-21 tournament in New Zealand. He was also in the Melrose team who were beaten by Boroughmuir in the BT Cellnet Cup final at Murrayfield in May 2001.

Calum was a member of the Melrose sevens squad who won the Kings of the Sevens title in season 1999-2000 and was part of the guest side, the Backstabbers, at the Heineken Dutch Open Sevens tournament in Amsterdam, winning the final of the Plate. He made a return to the Scotland Sevens squad for the 2005 IRB international tournaments in New Zealand and Los Angeles before the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong. He was back in the Scotland sevens squad for the IRB tournaments in Hong Kong and Adelaide in March/April 2009.