Vacant – Chief Executive Officer

Astie Cameron – Operations & Events Manager

Astie is responsible for coordinating the Senior Fixtures and allocating Match Referees to these matches. He is also in charge of the Misconduct Process, which includes dealing with the Yellow and Red Cards issued by the Referees and advising clubs of Misconduct Points and Player Suspensions. He also assists with the administration during the Disciplinary Process when Special Reports are received and cases are referred to the Disciplinary or Behaviour in Sport Committees.

As Events Manager, Astie organises the Cup Finals and other Events organised by the Camanachd Association.

Astie played for Fort William Shinty Club for nearly 25 years and was Full Back when they won the Camanachd Cup for the First time in 1992, a match that saw the fastest goal in a Camanachd Cup Final.

Ronald Ross – National Development Manager & Child Protection Manager

Ronald has been with CA for over 10 years and has held various roles from Highland Development Officer to National Development Officer. “Sport has been a passion of mine since a young age and to work in shinty is my dream job – there is not a day that goes past that I take my job for granted and I still have the same drive and passion as when I joined the Association. One of the aspects I love about working in sport is meeting and working with all the wonderful volunteers who’s contribution to their clubs and communities is remarkable; they truly are the heartbeat of our sport.”

Widely considered to be the sport’s greatest ever player, Ronald scored over 1000 goals in his career, as well as captaining Scotland. Since his retirement he has gone on to manage the senior and u21 Scotland side.

Hui Ouyang (Vega) – Finance & Administration Officer

Vega comes with an International Finance major. She has worked as an accountant for many years and been an editor for a major Chinese newspaper and website. She also owns an Irish pub and restaurant in Guangzhou, China.

Vega captained the China Women’s Open team at the Federation of International Touch World Cup in Malaysia 2019, and volunteers regularly for several local sports teams including both Rugby and Football as well as the annual Nairnshire Highland Games. She was first exposed to Shinty through a taster session at her sons’ primary school. She was instantly attracted to the sport and encourages and supports her son to continue playing.

Katie Drain– Regional Development Officer – North

Katie joined the CA as North Development Officer in late 2015. She made the move to Inverness from Glasgow where she worked as a Programme Manager for an Education through Sport charity after graduating with a BA Honours Degree in Sports Management. She covers an area spanning from the Western Isles to Inverness.

Katie plays shinty for GMA, having up a number of League and Valarie Fraser Winners medals, as well as 10 Scotland Caps in her time as a player, moving to the staff as a coach as of 2025. In her ‘spare time’ Katie is a volunteer coach at Highland Bears Basketball Club.

Roddy Young – Regional Development Officer – Central

Roddy plays for Kingussie, picking up the 2022 Mowi Player of the Year award after leading his team to a grand slam. Based in Edinburgh, Roddy is based mostly across the central belt, and has a focus of supporting clubs in the area to become stronger, creating new opportunities to engage the wider community and, importantly, to provide organised and high-quality experiences in shinty for new communities. Roddy is in charge of the Royal Bank Shinty Ambassador programme, helping to embed Shinty into school’s sports curriculums.

Will Cowie – Regional Development Officer – West

Will grew up on the Isle of Skye where he played shinty from primary school to senior level. At the beginning 2023 season he began playing for Kyles Athletic. Will is a former Scotland under 17 and under 21 cap and holds a degree in Sports Studies from the University of Stirling. He covers Argyll and Bute, helping to support clubs and develop the sport in the area.

Euan Hardie – Regional Development Officer – East

Euan grew up in Beauly and started shinty at the Primary School before playing for Beauly Shinty Club up to u17 level. He went away for university and studied Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art before has working in Architecture practices across Scotland. Since returning to the Highlands, Euan has re-joined Beauly Shinty Club and has held various roles across the club. He currently manages the newly formed Women’s Team, as well as assisting coaching the Under-14s and the First Team and has had a couple of run outs as a player for the Second Team. Euan is the development officer for the East region and the lead on Child Protection & Welfare at the Association.

Aarron Duncan-MacLeod – Marketing & Communications Manager & Project Manager

Before joining the Camanachd Association, Aarron studied Politics, International Relations & Geography at Aberdeen University.

Living in Beauly, Aarron has spent much of his life in and around shinty and is keen to help grow our presence both on social media and on the ground across our varied communities. In addition to marketing & communications, Aarron is the project manager for Shinty’s Story – Sgeul na Camanachd, helping to execute an activity plan and working to achieve long term sustainability for the exhibition in the aftermath of its successful launch.

If you have any questions regarding how to grow the social presence of your club, require any support with marketing, communications or just want to know how you can get more involved with the Camanachd Association then please make contact with Aarron. If you are ever struggling to sleep, Aarron’s Half-Swing Shinty Podcast could be the perfect remedy.

Jaime Robayna Gortazar – Digital Officer

Jaime holds a degree in Media from Robert Gordon University. Based in Inverness, he joined the association in a new role created to help further the digital content offerings of the association. His responsibilities include filming, editing and clipping games, creating content for social media and designing programmes and the annual yearbook.

Burton Morrison – President

A chartered civil engineer, now retired, Burton is a native of Glenurquhart and was part of the successful Aberdeen University team of the early 70s which he captained to Sutherland Cup success in 1973.

After moving to Glasgow, he played for Glasgow Mid Argyll for over twenty years, managed the first team and became Club President in the early nineties.

Burton gained representative honours playing for Scotland in each of the shinty-hurling matches which took place between 1976 and 1979. Later on, he assisted Kingussie legend, the late Donnie Grant in managing the Scotland U21 team in 1991and 1992, taking over as manager for the period 1993-96. In 1996, he returned to coaching, and was a founder member and first chairman of Milngavie and Bearsden Junior Shinty Club.

Willie MacDonald – Vice President & Coaching & Volunteering

Willie has been involved in Shinty for most of his life. A native of Ballachulish, he made his debut for the senior team at the age of 13. At the age of 24 Willie moved to play for Fort William, who had just been promoted to North Division 1 in the days before the Premiership had been established.

During this time he enjoyed great success winning all Senior trophies available – his finest moment being the 1992 Camanachd Final in Glasgow when Fort William defeated Kingussie 1-0 to win the ‘Camanachd’ for the first time in their history, winning the Albert Smith medal that day.

International honours arrived in 1993 when he was in the winning team against Ireland at the Bught Park, before later he captaining Scotland against Ireland in Fort William. When his playing days were over he started coaching at all levels from School kids from Inverlochy through to senior level with Fort William. He spent eight years coaching at Inverloch, taking an almost complete team through from P1 to P7 which in 2017/18 won all before them including the MacKay Cup – this along with some of the older kids he coached in the school making the breakthrough to Fort William senior team gave him great satisfaction.

One of the association’s most trusted referees, Willie has been the man in the middle in a number of finals, including the 2024 Tulloch Homes Camanachd Cup Final, and in 2025 Willie was ratified as Camanachd Association Vice-President.

John MacRitchie – Officials

John has already shown a desire to grow and improve the game with a focus on ensuring that young people stick with shinty as they grow older and encouraging as many as possible to take up the sport and progress through the pathway to senior level. Professionally, John has worked with the public for 38 years as a Business Relationship manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland. From a shinty perspective, John has played since his youth, having first played at Tomnacross and then Lovat for 30 years of first team shinty. He was treasurer when Lovat had their centenary year and John also filled other major roles at the club including Secretary and more recently was elected President in 2014. Further engagement with shinty has come through an active role with the Camanachd Association Competitions Committee and as a regular match official.

Kevin Thain – Competitions

Kevin had a very successful shinty career since childhood with Kingussie, GMA and Scotland. Upon his retirement from 2nd team shinty, aged 51, the Press & Journal reported that Kevin had won “12 Camanachd Cups, more than 20 Premiership titles, 14 MacTavish Cups and 14 Macaulay Cups” – making him one of the most decorated players in the games modern history.

Professionally, Kevin has been the Managing Director of The Thain Group for over 25 years and has history with the Association having served on the Camanachd Association Competitions Committee.

Alister MacKinnon – Finance

Alister is of Harris/Skye parentage brought up speaking Gaelic and lived in Skye, Ness and Kyle where his father was a Church of Scotland minister. His home is in Conon Bridge; he is married to Catherine and they have three daughters.

His career in finance started in the Royal Bank of Scotland and for many years he has been a financial and insurance adviser. He is a keen follower of shinty and has been very actively involved with Beauly Shinty Club for whom his son-in-law David MacLean plays.

Alister is a high profile figure in the Highlands who served as a councillor for 10 years including being budget leader.

He looks forward to using his broad financial experience to the benefit of the Camanachd Association and the promotion of our great Gaelic sport.

Graeme MacDiarmid – Equality, Youth & Child Protection

Graeme has been involved in shinty for over 50 years, starting out his journey with Inverlochy Primary before winning MacPherson, McBean and Wade Cups at Lochaber High. At club level, Graeme started out with Fort William, picking up North Division 2 and Sutherland Cup medals as well as receiving representative honours for the North U21s. However, he would soon move south and played for Strathclyde Police in Glasgow as well as starting his coaching career once his family came along. He helped form and develop the Glagow Gaels for 17 years holding down a number of volunteer positions during this time. Most recently, Graeme led Glasgow Mid Argyll women to the Mowi Valerie Fraser Cup Final in 2023.

Barry Martin – Facilities (South Argyll)

Barry Martin began playing shinty at the age of 16 with Bute Shinty Club. He joined the club’s committee in 1979 and has remained a member for 46 years, serving as club president since 2000.

He played for Bute Shinty Club until 1988, when a cruciate ligament injury forced him to retire from playing, following medical advice. Determined to stay involved in the sport, he took up refereeing, officiating at all levels from junior matches to international fixtures.

After roughly 10 years as a referee, he transitioned into team management, leading Bute Shinty Club to several cup finals, including the Balliemore Cup and the Celtic Cup, and guiding the team to the Premier League.

He played a key role in the planning and construction of various stages of Bute Shinty Club’s new clubhouse and was instrumental in transferring ownership of the club’s pitch from Bute Estate to Bute Shinty Club.

A time-served blacksmith, Barry co-founded Bute Blacksmith alongside his brother Duncan in 1981. The business later expanded with the acquisition of Gilchrist Steel. Now semi-retired, he has recently taken a step back from the company.

He has been a longstanding committee member of Bute Highland Games, which were originally organised under the auspices of the Bute Shinty and Athletic Club.

Barry looks forward to working with all board and staff members of the Camanachd Association.

Andy Watt – Strategy

Andy Watt has been co-opted onto the Board of the Camanachd Association, bringing with him a wealth of strategic leadership experience as well as a lifelong connection and passion for shinty.

Andy playing career with Inveraray Shinty Club was during the most successful period in the club’s modern history, including winning the Camanachd Cup in 2004. Since retiring from playing, he has continued to contribute to the sport, serving as First Team Manager for Inveraray during the 2023 and 2024 seasons and acting as Chair of the club for the past four years. In this role, he has been instrumental in shaping and delivering the club’s five-year plan and wider club development.

Andy has also captained and managed the South U21 side and represented Scotland at both U21 and Senior levels. His knowledge and understanding of the game has also seen him co-commentate on a number of shinty finals for BBC Alba over the past three years.

Professionally, Andy has served in the Fire Service for over 33 years, progressing through the ranks to be appointed Deputy Chief Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in November 2024. A senior manager within the service since 2017, he has developed extensive expertise in strategic leadership and management, change management and corporate governance.

Andy has also chaired the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Anthony Nolan Partnership since 2014, and in 2017 was awarded the Queen’s Fire Service Medal in recognition of his work with the partnership recruiting school pupils onto the stem cell register. Internationally, he currently serves as Vice Chair of the NFPA Fire and Emergency Services Board in the United States.

Andy’s appointment to the Board reflects both his deep commitment to shinty and the breadth of strategic, organisational and leadership experience developed over his professional career.