Daniel Vickerman

Dan Vickerman

Vickerman during the 2011 Rugby World Cup
Full name	Daniel Joseph Vickerman
Date of birth	(1979-06-04)4 June 1979
Place of birth	Cape Town, South Africa
Date of death	18 February 2017(2017-02-18) (aged 37)
Place of death	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height	2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight	119 kg (18 st 10 lb)
School	Diocesan College, Cape Town
University	Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2009–10 Northampton 12 (0) Super Rugby Years Team Apps (Points) 2001–03 2004–08, 2011 Brumbies Waratahs 20 58 (30) (0) Correct as of 1 June 2012 National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 2002–11 2002 2000 Australia Australia A Australia U-21 63 (0)

Daniel Joseph "Dan" Vickerman (4 June 1979 – 18 February 2017) was a professional rugby union player. The 204 cm, 119 kg lock played 63 Tests with the Wallabies, the national team of his adopted country of Australia. After seven seasons with the Wallabies, and having played Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs and ACT Brumbies, Vickerman left his successful international rugby career in 2008. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he read a degree in Land Economy at Hughes Hall. While in England, he played rugby for Cambridge University and Northampton Saints. In 2011, he returned to Australia and played again for the Wallabies, including at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, before he retired from the game.

Vickerman was born in South Africa and played his early rugby in South Africa. When he was 17 he spent a year in England playing for Cheltenham Colts (under 19) where he would play with, amongst others, Peter Buxton who himself went on to have a successful professional career, most notably with Premiership club Gloucester. Vickerman and Buxton took a year out together to visit and play rugby in Australia. This started Vickerman on the path to representing Australia, first at Under 21 level. After representing South Africa at Under-21 level in 1999, Vickerman arrived in Australia the following year and played for Australia at the 2000 SANZAR-UAR Under-21 tournament.

In 2001, Vickerman 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.