Etu Uaisele

Personal information

Full name

Etuate Uaisele

Born

8 December 1984 (age 32), Matahau, Tonga

Height

1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)

Weight

94 kg (14 st 11 lb)

Playing information

Position

Wing, Centre, Fullback

Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2009–11	Parramatta Eels	16	3	0	0	12
2012	Penrith Panthers	14	5	0	0	20
2014	Featherstone Rovers	10	7	0	0	28
2014(Loan)	→ Sheffield Eagles	8	8	0	0	32
2015–16	Bradford Bulls	18	10	0	0	40
2015(Loan)	→ Dewsbury Rams	5	3	0	0	12
2016(Loan)–	→ Dewsbury Rams	10	3	0	0	12
	Total	81	39	0	0	156
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2006–13	Tonga	9	5	0	0	20

As of 3 April 2016

Source: Rugby League Project, Love Rugby League

Etuate Uaisele (born 12 December 1984) is a Tongan rugby league player who played rugby league for the Bradford Bulls in the Kingstone Press Championship competition. His positions of choice are at wing or centre.

Etu, short for Etuate was born in Tonga an island nation in the South Pacific. He later migrated to New Zealand in 1996 where he first started his rugby career. Growing up in South Auckland, Uaisele attended Ferguson Intermediate in Otara, he later joined Otahuhu College where he became one of the most talented students of the school. Uaisele played for the Otahuhu Leopards and represented Auckland and Counties Manukau in the regional under 16, under 17 and under 18 tournament and was well known for his fierce tackling and running with the ball. Uaisele has also represented New Zealand in the Kiwi under 18.

In 2006, Uaisele was one of the players that won the 2006 Premier League Competition for the Parramatta Rugby League Club. For the next two years, Uaisele played well in the Premier League division. However, the Parramatta Eels first grade side included international and State of Origin capped players such as Jarryd Hayne, Krisnan Inu and Eric Grothe, Jr. at his preferred positions of wing and centre, so he was not called up until Grothe was injured in early in 2009.

Uaisele returned to the second tier competition, the New South Wales Cup, in 2013, with the Wyong Roos.

Uaisele made his first grade NRL debut for the Parramatta Eels on 24 April 2009, scoring a try despite a 40-8 loss. At the end of the 2011 season, he moved to the Penrith Panthers on a one-year contract. Uaisele scored his first hat trick for the Penrith Panthers against his former club, the Parramatta Eels, during their match in Round 4, 2012.

Uaisele was not re-signed by Penrith for the 2013 season.

Uaisele will be joining the Featherstone Rovers in 2014 season in the English Championship.

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