Lee Jarvis
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| Full name | Lee Jarvis | ||||||
| Date of birth | 30 September 1976 | ||||||
| Place of birth | Pontypridd, Wales | ||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||
| Weight | 92 kilograms (14.5 st) | ||||||
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Lee Jarvis (born 30 September 1976 in Pontypridd, Wales) is a former international Welsh rugby union player who was known as a top points scorer with the boot. His career has been spent in both Wales and England including top level rugby in Wales and in the Celtic League, winning a number of trophies in both countries. He has represented Wales from school level to full international honours as well as being selected by the Barbarians. Despite being tipped as the "next best thing" during his early career and being a great points kicker Lee never gained more than a solitary cap for Wales at full international level. After retiring from rugby union as a player, Lee has taken up coaching. He is currently head coach at Merthyr.
An outside-half, he began his club career at his local club Pontypridd in 1995 where he was a member of the youth academy. Despite making an appearance in the Heineken Cup, Lee found opportunities limited at Pontypridd as Welsh legend Neil Jenkins was already firmly entrenched as the main man in his position at the club so he moved to local rivals Cardiff for the start of the 1996-97 season. Lee spent three seasons at Cardiff where he scored an incredible 1,000 points in his time there which also saw the club win the SWALEC Cup in his first season and included a career best performance in his second season of almost 500 points in all competitions. He also gained a cap (the only one of his career) for Wales - playing just two minutes against Romania in 1997 but typically still managing to score a conversion in the limited time he played. Despite a great scoring record at Cardiff, in 1999 Lee returning back to his former club, Pontypridd, as part of a record £200,000 deal that the capital club paid for his former teammate Neil Jenkins.
After two seasons at Pontypridd where he was once more one of the league's top scorers, Lee moved to Neath to coincide with the inaugural Celtic league - a competition which involved Welsh, Scottish and Irish clubs - helping the club to the quarter finals where they lost to Irish province Ulster. Along with appearances in the domestic Welsh league/cup, Jarvis amassed over 400 points including 100 in the Celtic League. In 2003 a further change to Welsh rugby would lead to the creation of the controversial regions who would play in the Celtic League replacing the original Welsh clubs. Of the five teams that were created, Lee moved back east to join the Newport-Gwent Dragons. He only spent a season with the Dragons where he found opportunities limited by highly capped South African international Percy Montgomery and Craig Warlow (although as always he still had a decent points record from games played).
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