Shinty in the United States 2006 Gary Innes, Captain of Fort William Shinty Club and Man of the Match for the 2005 Camanachd Cup visited to California to play Shinty and to teach at a workshop hosted by the Northern California Camanachd Club open to all US Shinty Clubs. Gary Innes will be returning in June 2007 to teach another workshop open to all clubs and individuals. This workshop will help developing clubs as well as beginning level players. The club played its first twelve a-side fixture in Scotland against Skye Camanachd on 6 September 2007, they were defeated 9-0. The spring of 2008 marked
Shinty in the United States Shinty Association. Its mascot was a wolf and its colors were red, black and white. The Erwin Shinty Club was an offshoot club from the FVCC formed to create true shinty competition in North Carolina. The teams shared a practice field. Houston Camanachd Club was the third shinty team to be established in North America in the Modern Era in 2005. The Club was founded by Warren Clifford, a shinty player from the NCCC. The developmental aim of the club was to compete against the other shinty teams in North America. However, their extreme distance from any other club, the