Darren Coleman
| Full name | Darren Coleman | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1973 (age 43–44) | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kempsey, New South Wales | ||||||||||||
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| Current status | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Head Coach Country Eagles | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Fly-half, Inside Centre | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1995 1996–97 1998–2000 |
Eastern Suburbs Newcastle Wildfires Northern Suburbs |
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| Coaching career | |||
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| Years | Club / team | ||
| 2014– 2011–13 2007–08 2006–07 2005 |
NSW Country Eagles Toyota Industries Shuttles L'Aquila Northern Suburbs Penrith Emus |
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Darren Coleman (born 1973) is an Australian professional rugby union coach. He is currently the Rugby Director of Sydney's Eastern Suburbs RUFC, and the head coach of the Country Eagles team in Australia's National Rugby Championship.
Coleman grew up in Kempsey on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, where he played rugby for the Kempsey Cannonballs team, before moving south to play in the Sydney club rugby competition.
His younger brother Scott Coleman is also a professional rugby coach, appointed to Italian club Benevento in 2013.
While attending Southern Cross University in the late 90's Coleman played for the University Gold Rats alongside Justin Harrison. Coleman played as a fly-half in Sydney’s club rugby competition from 1995 to 2000 for Eastern Suburbs, Newcastle Wildfires, and Northern Suburbs. He was a rugby development officer in Newcastle.
Coleman combined playing with coaching in the early part of his career. While playing for Northern Suburbs, he was appointed as head coach of the NSW Waratahs Academy in 1998, and then as a skills coach to the Waratahs for the 2000 Super 12 season. In 2001 he left Australia to take up contract stints as a player-coach with Italian club Benevento and the Calgary Saints and Calgary Mavericks in Canada.
Coleman returned to Australia to coach in the Shute Shield as head coach of the Penrith Emus for the 2005 season. He then returned to Northern Suburbs as head coach for 2006 and 2007. Coleman was also assistant coach to the Central Coast Rays in the Australian Rugby Championship in 2007. He was appointed to professional Italian club L'Aquila for the 2007–08 season. guiding them to a promotion play-off for the Series A Division.
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