Birth name | Serupepeli Uru | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 March 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Lautoka, Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 199 cm (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 107 kg (236 lb; 16 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Serupepeli Uru (born 3 January 1997 in Lautoka, Fiji)[1][2] is a Fijian-born Australian rugby union player who plays for the Queensland Reds in Super Rugby. His playing position is flanker.
Current Australian Wallaby player, Seru attended the prestigious Ratu Kadavulevu School with whom he won the U18 Deans Trophy in 2015. He represented Fiji in Basketball and also Fiji under 20 rugby 15s which toured around Europe. He later came to Melbourne and played club rugby for Power House Rugby Union and received best player in 2017 in Victoria. He later signed with Queensland Reds after Melbourne Rebels failed to sing him on. He was selected for the Australian A side. Since than, he has won many awards with his club team's and is respected among his team as one of the gifted talent on the field.
Reference list
[edit]- ^ "Queensland Premier Rugby Top 10 Recruits (2019)". Green and Gold Rugby. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Seru Uru". Queensland Reds. Retrieved 4 November 2019.