Daniel Vickerman

Daniel Vickerman

Personal information
Full name	Daniel Vickerman
Date of birth	4 June 1979 (1979-06-04) (age 32)
Place of birth	Cape Town, South Africa
Height	204 cm (6 ft 8 in)
Weight	119 kg (18 st 10 lb)
School(s) attended	Diocesan College, Cape Town
University(s)	Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Club information
Position(s)	Lock
Current club	New South Wales Waratahs
Youth representative teams
1999 2000	South Africa U-21 Australia U-21
Super Rugby
Provincial sides
2001–03 2004–08 2004–08	Brumbies New South Wales Waratahs Sydney University	34 (5) 37 (0)
Super Rugby
2001–03 2004–08 2011-	Brumbies New South Wales Waratahs New South Wales Waratahs	33 (5) 37 (0) 1 (0)
Representative teams
2002 2002–	Australia A Australia	54 (0)

Daniel Vickerman (born 4 June 1979 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a rugby union footballer for the New South Wales Waratahs and Australia who left a successful international career in 2008 to attend the University of Cambridge, where he read a degree in Land Economy at Hughes Hall, and returned to Australian Rugby in 2011^[1]. The 204 cm, 119 kg lock previously played Super Rugby with the Brumbies (2001–03) and New South Wales Waratahs (2004–2008), and appeared in 52 Tests with the Wallabies, the national team of his adopted country of Australia. He signed a one-year deal to return to professional rugby with Northampton Saints in the Guinness Premiership in May 2009,^[2] but arranged to delay his arrival with the team until after the 2009 Varsity Match in December, in which he captained Cambridge to a 31–27 victory over eternal rival Oxford.^[3] His first match for the Saints was against Sale Sharks on 7 March 2010.^[4]

Vickerman was born in South Africa and played his early rugby in South Africa, where he represented South Africa in the under-21 team in 1999. He soon moved to Australia and was selected in the under-21 Australian side. In 2001 he was contracted by the Brumbies and made his debut that season in a Super 12 match against the Sharks in Durban. He played a total of seven Super 12 games that season. In 2002, he was selected to play for Australia A in Canada that year. He went on to make his test debut that year in Sydney in a match against France.

The following season he played numerous tests for the Wallabies, becoming a regular either as a starter or off the bench. He also signed with the Waratahs for the 2004 season. He was a replacement in all the domestic Wallaby tests in 2004, but became the starting lock on the end of year United Kingdom and France tour. In 2006 he started in all but one match for the Waratahs who made it to the finals of the 2006 Super 14 season. He was subsequently named in John Connolly's Wallaby squad.

Vickerman had a shoulder reconstruction in November 2006. He returned to rugby union in a test match against Wales coming off the bench.^[5] Although missing most of the 2007 Super 14 season through injury, Vickerman returned to the Test scene and has cemented his place back in the Wallaby starting line up. Vickerman was named in the Wallabies 2007 Rugby World Cup squad.

Vickerman missed out on making Robbie Deans' 2008 Wallabies squad because of an injury he sustained in the 2008 Super 14 final. In the autumn of 2008 he started at Cambridge University where he will read Land Economy for three years. He played for Cambridge in the 2008 Varsity Match,^[6] captained Cambridge to victory in the 2009 Match, and will combine his studies with his renewed professional career at Northampton.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/rugby-gold/dan-vickerman-comes-out-of-rugby-hiatus-to-return-fire-at-world-cup-rivals/story-fn8ouw0e-1226128461211
2. ^ ^{a b} "Vickerman signs for Saints" (Press release). Northampton Saints. 2009-05-26. http://northamptonsaints.co.uk/3831_5750.php. Retrieved 2009-05-26. 
3. ^ Baines, Huw (2009-12-10). "Vickerman's Cambridge exact revenge". Scrum.com. http://www.scrum.com/scrum/rugby/story/107049.html. Retrieved 2009-12-10. 
4. ^ "Saints draft in student for Sale trip". 'Northampton Saints'. 2010-03-05. http://www.northamptonsaints.co.uk/3831_6465.php. Retrieved 2010-03-05. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ Inner West Courier, "Rugby legend proud to call Australia home" 28 May 2007
6. ^ Wildman, Rob (2008-12-04). "Oxford v Cambridge Varsity to star All Black Anton Oliver and Australia's Dan Vickerman". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/3551086/Oxford-v-Cambridge-Varsity-to-star-All-Black-Anton-Oliver-and-Australias-Dan-Vickerman-Rugby-Union.html. Retrieved 2008-12-11. 

External links

• Waratahs profile
• Wallabies profile
• 2003 RWC profile

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Name	Vickerman, Daniel
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Date of birth	4 June 1979
Place of birth	Cape Town, South Africa
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