Iva Ropati
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Iva Lewis Ropati | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Otahuhu Leopards | ||||||
| Te Atatu Roosters | ||||||
| Mangere East Hawks | ||||||
| 1991 | Sheffield Eagles | |||||
| 1992 | Featherstone Rovers | |||||
| 1993 | Oldham | 36 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 1994 | Parramatta Eels | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1996–97 | Auckland Warriors | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Total | 47 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 120 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Auckland | ||||||
| 1993 | New Zealand | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Source: RLP | ||||||
Iva Lewis Ropati is a former rugby league international player and High School Principal.
He grew up playing for the Otahuhu Leopards before moving to the Te Atatu Roosters where he won a Fox Memorial premiership. He later played for the Mangere East Hawks before moving to England. During the 1991 season Iva was able to twice line up alongside four of his brothers for Mangere East in the Auckland Rugby League competition. Iva played alongside Joe, John, Peter, and Tea.
When he moved to England, Ropati played for the Sheffield Eagles, Featherstone Rovers and Oldham. Iva Ropati played Centre, i.e. number 3, and scored a try in Featherstone Rovers' 14-20 defeat by Bradford Northern in the 1989 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1989–90 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Sunday 5 November 1989. He scored 30 tries for Sheffield in the 1991–92 season, which remained a club record until it was broken in 2012. In 1994 he moved to Australia to play for the Parramatta Eels in the NSWRL premiership. He finished his career with the new Auckland Warriors in 1996 and 1997. In 1998 he returned to the Auckland Rugby League competition, playing with the Manurewa Marlins. As an import player, he represented Taranaki in the 1998 National Provincial Competition.
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