Name Kyle Traynor Height 1.83 m | Weight 113 kg | |
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Education The John Fisher School, Edinburgh Napier University Profiles | ||
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Kyle Traynor (born 27 February 1986) is a Scottish rugby union player who plays at prop for Leicester Tigers and has represented Scotland internationally.
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Early life
Traynor was born in Farnborough, London to Glaswegian parents and was educated at The John Fisher School.
Rugby career
After leaving school, Traynor signed a development contract with the Scottish Rugby Union's National Academy, which allowed him to divide his time between training with Edinburgh, playing for Watsonians and studying for a degree in quantity surveying at Edinburgh Napier University. After completing his degree in 2008, Traynor signed a full-time contract with Edinburgh and has gone on to represent Scotland A, debuting against Italy A in February 2009 and Scotland, coming on as a replacement against Fiji in 2009 Autumn internationals. He has twice played for the Barbarians, first appearing for them in August 2015 against Samoa in a match played at the Olympic Stadium in London.
At the end of the 2011–12 season Traynor left Edinburgh Rugby, and signed a contract to play for Bristol Rugby ahead of the 2012–13 season.
On 20 September 2017 it was announced Traynor had joined Leicester Tigers.