Personal information
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Full name | Chris Stephen Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
19 October 1988 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 96 kg (15 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Centre, Five-eighth, Second-row | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 26 March 2017
Source: League Central Rugby League Project
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Chris Lawrence (born 19 October 1988 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Wests Tigers of the National Rugby League (NRL). A former Australian international representative, Lawrence primarily plays centre, but can also fill in at five-eighth and second-row.
Lawrence played junior football with Eaglevale St Andrews. While attending St Gregory's College, Campbelltown, he played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 2006.
In Round 21 of the 2006 season he made his debut for the Wests Tigers against the Brisbane Broncos up at Suncorp Stadium. He is the youngest player to have debuted for the Tigers, at 17 years and 283 days old. He scored a try in that match and played in every match for the remainder of the year, picking up two tries in five matches of his rookie season. The following year Lawrence played in eighteen of the Tigers' twenty-five matches as he went on to score sixteen first grade tries.
Lawrence studied Exercise and Sports Science at Sydney University.
In 2007, Lawrence was selected to tour Papua New Guinea as a member of the Prime Minister's XIII. Lawrence backed up his two try performance in 2007 with another double in 2008 for the PM'S XIII.
Lawrence celebrated his 50th NRL match with two tries in the round 3 game against the Sydney Roosters on 27 March 2009.