Tevita Mailau
Birth name | Tevita Mailau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 25 April 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 115 kg (18 st 2 lb; 254 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Wesley College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tevita Mailau (born 25 April 1985 in Sydney, Australia) is a rugby union player who plays for Stade Montois in the Top 14 and Tonga internationally. He previously played for the Auckland Blues in Super Rugby and Auckland in the ITM Cup.
Career
[edit]Domestic Rugby
[edit]Mailau made his debut for Auckland in 2006 in a game against Fiji Warriors in Lautoka.[1] The following season he spent a full year as a loan player with the Northland Taniwha playing all eleven games including two starts. His 2008 season was spent between both Northland and Auckland where he spent four weeks as a loan player before returning to Auckland.
2009 saw Mailau make his Super 14 debut for the Blues in their Round Two 59–26 loss to the Bulls in Pretoria. In 2012, after making 38 Blues appearances, he signed with Stade Montois of the Top 14.
Representative career
[edit]Mailau has the distinction of being able to play either loosehead or tighthead prop. He has represented New Zealand at both Secondary Schools and under 21 level.[2] He made his international debut for Tonga in 2012.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Akers, C. A.; Miller, G. D. (2008). 74th Edition Sky Sport 2008 Rugby Almanack. Hodder Moa Books. ISBN 978-1-86971-130-6.
- ^ "Tevita Mailau – Auckland Team Player". Auckland Rugby. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
External links
[edit]- New Zealand rugby union players
- Blues (Super Rugby) players
- Auckland rugby union players
- Northland rugby union players
- Rugby union props
- Rugby union players from Auckland
- 1985 births
- Living people
- People educated at Wesley College, Auckland
- Tonga international rugby union players
- Australian emigrants to New Zealand
- New Zealand sportspeople of Tongan descent
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in France
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- Stade Montois Rugby players
- USA Perpignan players