While his Club debut came during the 2018/19 campaign, centre Fraser Dingwall first linked up with Northampton Saints at just 14 years old.
While working his way through Saints’ junior ranks, Dingwall began his international career in a Scotland shirt up to Under-18 level – but after signing for Northampton’s Senior Academy in 2017, the Bedford School graduate switched to play for England and featured for the Red Rose’s Under-18s and Under-20s sides, captaining the latter at the 2019 Six Nations and World Rugby Under-20s Championships in Argentina.
Dingwall impressed in helping the Wanderers claim back-to-back Premiership Rugby Shield titles in 2017 and 2018, before making his Saints debut against Leicester Tigers at Twickenham Stadium in 2018.
Dingwall’s first Northampton try was a sensational effort against Wasps later that year, and the centre would score three more as he helped Saints to the knockout stages of every competition and a Premiership Rugby Cup title in his fledgling season.
Dingwall was nominated for the Premiership Rugby Cup’s Breakthrough Player award in 2019/20 and scooped Saints’ Young Player of the Season award for his efforts, which did not go unnoticed on the international stage, with the centre earning the call to England’s training squad ahead of the 2020 Six Nations and Autumn Nations Cup.
The Academy graduate continued his progress in 2021/22, making 25 appearances (with all but one of them from the start) and captained the side in the absence of regular skipper Lewis Ludlam during the 2022 Six Nations.
In the February of the 2022/23 season, Dingwall won the Premiership Player of the Month and in that same month the centre also picked up the Premiership Try of the Month. It was a successful season for Dingwall at the Club as he also won the cinch Supporters’ Player of the Season.
