Jared Waerea-Hargreaves

Jared Waerea-Hargreaves

Personal information
Nickname	JWH
Born	(1989-01-20) 20 January 1989 (age 28) Rotorua, New Zealand
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	116 kg (18 st 4 lb)
Playing information
Position	Prop, Second-row
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2009 Manly Sea Eagles 6 1 0 0 4 2010– Sydney Roosters 148 8 0 0 32 Total 154 9 0 0 36 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2009–16 New Zealand 18 2 0 0 8 2012–15 NRL All Stars 2 0 0 0 0
As of 21 December 2014 Source:

Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (born 20 January 1989) is a professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League. A New Zealand international representative Prop, Waerea-Hargreaves started his NRL career at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. Waerea-Hargreaves later moved to the Sydney Roosters, with whom he won the 2013 NRL Premiership.

Born in Rotorua, New Zealand, Waerea-Hargreaves is of Māori and English descent. Waerea-Hargreaves later moved to Australia and first made a name for himself playing schoolboy rugby union at Iona College (Queensland), through some impressive performances in the AIC competition, making the AIC rep side versing the GPS rep side. Waerea-Hargreaves joined the Waratahs Academy in Sydney. Waerea-Hargreaves played for Australia at the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship in Ireland alongside future-Super Rugby players, such as Dan Palmer, Pat McCabe and Blair Connor.

Waerea-Hargreaves was signed by the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles recruitment manager, Noel Cleal, despite never having played rugby league. Waerea-Hargreaves played in the Sea Eagles NYC team in 2008 and 2009.