Paul Rauhihi

Paul Rauhihi

Rauhihi playing for Warrington in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Paul Maraku Joseph Rauhihi
Born	(1973-07-03) 3 July 1973 (age 43) Porirua, New Zealand
Playing information
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	116 kg (18 st 4 lb)
Position	Prop
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1999–01 Newcastle Knights 19 3 0 0 12 2001–02 Canterbury Bulldogs 40 2 0 0 8 2003–05 North Queensland Cowboys 72 6 1 0 26 2006–09 Warrington Wolves 95 12 0 0 48 Total 226 23 1 0 94 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1996–00 New Zealand Māori 3 0 0 0 0 2002–05 New Zealand 17 1 0 0 4
Source: Rugby League Project

Paul Rauhihi (born 3 July 1973 in Porirua, New Zealand) is a retired professional rugby league footballer who represented his country. Rauhihi played in both the National Rugby League and Super League at prop forward.

Rauhihi's junior clubs were the Cottingham Tigers and St George club in Wellington. He then joined the New Zealand Navy and played for the Northcote Tigers and North Harbour Sea Eagles before becoming an Auckland Warriors junior in 1994. Rauhihi was part of the Northcote side that won the Fox Memorial in 1994. After leaving the Navy to concentrate on his rugby league career, Rauhihi played in 17 reserve grade games for the Warriors in 1996 and was a part of the Reserve Grade side that lost the 1997 grand final.

In 1998 he played for Taranaki before signing with the Melbourne Storm.

Rauhihi then signed with the Newcastle Knights in 1999. He made his first grade debut against Wests at EnergyAustralia Stadium on 27 June.

He later moved to the Bulldogs.

Rauhihi then moved to the North Queensland Cowboys, winning the club's player of the year award in 2003. He also captained the side due to regular captain Paul Bowman being out with injury in 2004, and also when Travis Norton was out due to injury in 2005. He played at prop forward in the 2005 NRL Grand Final, the Cowboys' first, which they lost to the Wests Tigers.