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Stirling, Western Australia, Australia |
19 July 1989 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 115 kg (18 st 2 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 5 March 2017 Source: |
Sam McKendry (born 19 July 1989, in Stirling, Western Australia) is a professional rugby league player who currently plays for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. He plays as a prop and is a former New Zealand international.
McKendry was born in Stirling, Western Australia. He then moved back to New Zealand when he was 7 years old. He was a Mt Albert Lions junior and played for the Junior Kiwis. He was a boarding student at Mt Albert Grammar School where he represented the under 15 rugby union team and First XIII rugby league team.
McKendry debuted for the Penrith Panthers in the 2008 NRL season, with successful and unsuccessful stints keeping him in and out of first-grade. However, during the 2010 NRL season, McKendry became a fixed member of Panthers 17-man squad.
In 2008 McKendry played for the New Zealand Māori in a curtain raiser to the 2008 World Cup.
In 2010 he was named in the New Zealand Kiwis squad for the Four Nations tournament after Fuifui Moimoi withdrew due to injury. McKendry again played for the New Zealand Māori in 2010 against England as part of the build up to the Four Nations. He made his test debut for the New Zealand Kiwis in the 2010 Four Nations.