Nathan Merritt

Personal information

Full name

Nathan Deane Merritt

Born

26 May 1983 (age 33)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Playing information

Height

181 cm (5 ft 11 in)

Weight

90 kg (200 lb; 14 st 2 lb)

Position

Wing, Fullback

Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2002–03	South Sydney	23	12	1	0	50
2004–05	Cronulla-Sutherland	19	8	6	0	44
2006–14	South Sydney	195	134	33	1	603
	Total	237	154	40	1	697
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2006–11	PM's XII	2	2	1	0	10
2010–12	Indigenous All Stars	3	3	0	0	12
2011–13	City NSW	2	0	0	0	0
2013	New South Wales	1	0	0	0	0

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Nathan Merritt (born 26 May 1983) is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 2000s and 2010s. A New South Wales State of Origin representative winger, he played in the National Rugby League for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, with whom he won the 2014 NRL Premiership, and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. Merritt has also played representative football for the City New South Wales, Indigenous All Stars and Prime Minister's XIII sides. A prolific try-scorer, he was the NRL's top try-scorer in 2006 and 2011, and in 2013 became the 9th player in the history of the League to score 150 tries.

Born in Sydney, Merritt is an Indigenous Australian who grew up on The Block in Redfern, South Sydney. He played his early football in the South Sydney Juniors competition for the Alexandria Rovers.

His first-grade debut was for the South Sydney Rabbitohs against the New Zealand Warriors at Ericsson Stadium in round 9 of the 2002 NRL season, scoring a try on debut. At the end of the 2003 season Merritt agreed to terms with the Cronulla Sharks where he was to play for the next two years. In the 2005 season, Merritt endured a tough year. He played only three first grade games for the Sharks, but was a stand-out player in the lower grade NSWRL Premier League matches for the Newtown Jets, scoring almost 300 points for the year. In one game against the Windsor Wolves, he scored 40 points (including 5 tries). At the end of the season, Merritt picked up a number of awards including Newtown RLFC VB Premier League Players’ Player award, as well as having the distinction of being the Jets highest season point scorer, as well as most points in a game. (as of 2005). His outstanding showing that year was rewarded when his old club South Sydney offered him a two-year contract to play in the NRL.

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