Birth name | Daniel Ablett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 5 April 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (14 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Ablett is a former Scotland Under 21 international rugby union player. A centre, he played professionally for Glasgow Warriors.[1] He is now a surgeon.[2]
Ablett went to Boroughmuir High School and then played rugby for Boroughmuir.[3] Switching to play in Glasgow, he then played for Glasgow Academicals.[4]
On the Academicals merger with Glasgow High Kelvinside he then turned out for the newly formed team Glasgow Hawks.
Ablett first played for Glasgow Warriors in the pre-season matches against Sale Sharks on 16 August 1997[5] and against Caledonia Reds on 28 August 1997, coming on as a replacement for Alan Bulloch in the 65th minute.[6]
He played for Glasgow Warriors in the European Rugby Cup (then known as the Heineken Cup). He made his competitive debut for the club as a replacement in the match against Swansea on 21 September 1997 - a 35-21 win for the provincial Glasgow side.[7] He thus earned the Glasgow Warrior No. 39.[1]
He made his next appearance, again in the Heineken Cup, playing in the away match against English side Wasps in a 43-5 defeat for the Glasgow side.[8]
Ablett played for Scotland Schools[9] and then Scotland Under 21 sides.[10]
He is now a consultant surgeon at the University Hospitals in the north midlands of England.[2]