FORMER Pitreavie AAC hurdler Jack Lawrie is set to run for Scotland after being selected for a prestigious event this weekend.

The former Beath High School pupil, who competes for the Woodford Green AC with Essex Ladies club, is one of 38 athletes who have been chosen for the Loughborough International Meet, which takes place on Sunday.

Lawrie, a winner of the Dunfermline and West Fife Sports Council Sports Personality of the Year prize for 2017, is part of a Scotland team that consists of 19 men and 19 women, and a mix of well-known Great Britain internationals and Scottish debutants.

Those include 2017 British Athletics Championships 400 metres title-winner Zoey Clark, who claimed a 4x400m relay silver medal at the same year's World Championships in London, and Beth Dobbin, a 200m European Championship finalist in 2019.

Lawrie is set to run in two events – the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay – at Loughborough, which is being held for the first time in two years.

The meet was cancelled last year due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and represents a chance for Lawrie, who hails from Cowdenbeath, the opportunity to better the third-place finish in the 400m hurdles two years ago, achieved in a time of 51.23 seconds.

Although events over the last 12 months have been restricted because of the virus, Lawrie did compete at the Müller British Athletics Championships, which took place in September in Manchester.

After coming second in his heat in 51.18, a fifth-place finish was achieved in 51.55.

Ahead of this weekend's Loughborough International, Mark Pollard, Scottish Athletics interim head of performance, said: "Given both the Loughborough and Manchester Internationals didn’t happen in 2020, we really wanted to get things back up and running if we could this year.

"As a governing body, we are committed to trying to create this kind of opportunity – to provide the incentive of representing Scotland and to reward the hard work and dedication the athletes (and their coaches) have shown."