Teenage shinty star dies of suspected heart failure
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Calum Mackintosh was due to be named Kingussie's young player of the year
A young Highland shinty player has died of suspected heart failure in Edinburgh, his club has said.
Former Grantown Grammar School pupil Calum Mackintosh, 19, was a second-year law student at Edinburgh Napier University.
Calum, who died on Saturday, was part of the Kingussie team that won the Camanachd Cup in September.
He was due to be named the club's young player of the year at its awards night later this month.
In a statement, Kingussie Camanachd Club said Calum had suffered a catastrophic cardiac event while leaving his flat with friends to play shinty.
The club said the student had lived life at "full throttle" with a "big beautiful smile on his face".
His parents Ann and Iain are local secondary school teachers.
Tributes, including flowers, shinty sticks and Kingussie scarves, have been left at the club's ground, The Dell.
The club said: "None of us can make sense of what has happened, we are all devastated.
"We can't begin to imagine the pain for Iain, Ann and his brothers and all our thoughts are with them."
It added: "We will never understand how this could happen, but whatever this team and this club does in the future we will carry you with us. Forever a boy of The Dell."