Glenurquhart Jump For Highland Hospice! | |
27 November 2012 Glenurquhart Shinty Club celebrated the most successful season in the club's history last weekend by raising almost £10,000 from Scotland's first charity team bungee jump. Fraser MacKenzie and Drew McNeil's men landed the Artemis Macaulay Cup in Oban this season - the first senior trophy in the club's 127 year history. To cap it off, the Drumnadrochit players leapt 40 metres from the Highland Fling Bungee platform in Killiecrankie to raise money for a charity close to their hearts. Annie MacKenzie, mother of team boss Fraser, passed away last Christmas from cancer but was cared for by Highland Hospice, the charity the Glen players raised the incredible sum for. Boss MacKenzie, who himself completed the 50mph plummet, said it was an exhilarating way for the side to bond after a watershed season. "It was really good to do the jump after such an important season for the club. To win the trophy was special because it was long overdue and we will take a lot of belief from it going into the 2013 season,” said the former sky-diver. "The team at Highland Fling Bungee were brilliant and, although a few of the players were apprehensive when they got to the edge of the platform - and maybe wondered why they had agreed to it - everyone did the jump. "It is really important for team spirit to do these things together and it was obviously nice to raise such a good sum for a charity that means a lot, too. As a sports manager, I would recommend other teams to use Highland Fling Bungee as a bonding tool. “The team that leaps together, wins together.” The Club will now enjoy the festive break before resuming training for an assault on the 2013 Orion Group Premiership - the elite league in the Gaelic stick sport. "We still have a level to jump yet in terms of consistency and fitness but we will be working hard to achieve that in the new season," added MacKenzie. As well as bosses MacKenzie and McNeil, Rory MacLean, Jack Hosie, Euan Lloyd, Ally MacKintosh, Garry MacKintosh, Fraser Heath, Dixie MacLennan and Ewan Ward took part in the jump. |