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
Oxford Shinty Club Oxford Shinty Club Oxford Shinty Club was founded in 2013. Shinty is a traditionally Scottish team game played with sticks and a ball, similar but not equivalent to American field hockey. The co-ed Oxford Shinty Club currently competes in the English shinty championships and the ESA Tri-series. It acts as a feeder to the English Shinty Association (ESA). The club also competes in the annual St Andrews sixes tournament. The Oxford club puts on an annual sixes competition, the Oxfordshire Shinty Sixes, in nearby Wallingford. The inaugural competition was held in 2016 and won by a team from Dundee Shinty