Daly Cherry-Evans
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Personal information
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| Full name | Daly Cherry-Evans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
20 February 1989 Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia |
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| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (13 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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| Position | Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daly Cherry-Evans (born 20 February 1989) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer of English descent who currently plays for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles with whom he won the 2011 Grand Final. He has represented Queensland at State of Origin level and Australia internationally.
Cherry-Evans was born in Redcliffe, Queensland to an English-born mother and an Australian father. His father, Troy Evans, played as a hooker for the Norths Devils and Redcliffe Dolphins in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership during the 1980s and 1990s. His mother, Kellie Cherry, named Cherry-Evans after dual British Olympic Gold Medalist Daley Thompson. He began playing rugby league for the Redcliffe Dolphins at 5-years-old. At 12 years of age Cherry-Evans moved to Mackay, Queensland with his family and continued to play junior rugby league for the Mackay Brothers. He attended St Patrick's College during his high school years. At the beginning of 2008 Cherry-Evans was invited by Dennis Moore to trial with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and later signed a contract to play for their under-20s National Youth Competition team.
Cherry-Evans played 46 games for the National Youth Competition team of Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles over the 2008 and 2009 season where he scored 246 points in total including 24 tries. He was named on the interchange bench of the 2009 Toyota Cup season's team of the year.
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