Garrick Mattheus
| Full name | Garrick Frederick Mattheus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 23 March 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Port Elizabeth, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg (14 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Grey High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Fly-half / Fullback | ||
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| Current team | Kings / Eastern Province Kings | ||
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| 2014–present | Eastern Province Kings | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2016–present | Eastern Province Kings | 8 | (66) |
| 2017–present | Kings | 0 | (0) |
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Garrick Frederick Mattheus (born 23 March 1996) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the Kings in Super Rugby and the Eastern Province Kings in domestic rugby. His regular position is fly-half, but he can also play as a fullback.
Mattheus was born in Port Elizabeth, where he attended Grey High School. In 2014, he was selected to represent Eastern Province at the Under-18 Academy Week held in Worcester. His best performance of the tournament came in his first match, as he kicked three penalties and five conversions for a personal points haul of 19 points in their 49–31 victory over the Pumas. Later in the same year, Mattheus was also drafted into the Eastern Province U19 squad that competed for their 2014 Under-19 Provincial Championship campaign. He played off the bench in a 17–13 victory over Free State U19, before starting four of their final five matches of the competition, contributing 18 points with the boot.
He joined the Eastern Province Kings academy on a full-time basis for 2015 and started the Under-19 team's opening match of the 2015 Under-19 Provincial Championship season, a 28–15 victory over Free State U19. However, he lasted just 21 minutes of the match before being suffering a concussion and didn't feature in their next six matches. He made his return as a replacement in their 34–22 victory against Golden Lions U19 and started their 29–10 victory over Free State U19 a week later. He was used as a replacement in their final two matches of the regular season against the Blue Bulls U19s and the Western Province U19s, as Eastern Province finished top of the log, winning eleven of their twelve matches during the season. Mattheus also played off the bench in their 31–15 semi-final victory over Free State, as well in the final, which Eastern Province won by beating the Blue Bulls 25–23 in Johannesburg to win the competition for the first time in their history.
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