Shaun Kenny-Dowall
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Nickname | Skids | |||||
| Born |
23 January 1988 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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| Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | |||||
| Weight | 102 kg (16 st 1 lb) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Centre, Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2007– | Sydney Roosters | 215 | 119 | 3 | 0 | 482 |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2007–16 | New Zealand | 20 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| 2008 | New Zealand Māori | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2011–13 | NRL All Stars | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| As of 30 March 2016 | ||||||
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Shaun Kenny-Dowall (born 23 January 1988) is a professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League. A New Zealand national representative centre, he has played his entire NRL career to date with the Roosters, winning the 2013 Premiership with them. Kenny-Dowall also played in New Zealand's 2010 Four Nations-winning side as well as the 2014 Four Nations-winning side.
Born in Woodridge, Kenny-Dowall is of Māori descent. He moved to Auckland as a three-year-old and began his rugby league career playing for the East Coast Bays Barracudas on Auckland's North Shore. Kenny-Dowall later resided in Ngaruawahia, where he attended Ngaruawahia High School and played for the Ngaruawahia Panthers. Kenny-Dowall was a New Zealand Warriors junior but was unwanted by the club before moving to Sydney in 2004. Kenny-Dowall was selected for the Junior Kiwis in 2006.
His father, John, won a gold medal in javelin and a silver medal in shot put at the 2000 Paralympic Games.
Kenny-Dowall joined the Sydney Roosters and made his National Rugby League debut in round 1 the 2007 NRL season against the South Sydney Rabbitohs, playing on the wing in the Roosters' 6–18 loss. In round 4, against the Brisbane Broncos, Kenny-Dowall scored his first NRL try in the Roosters 10–32 loss at the SFS. In round 13, Kenny-Dowall scored a hat-trick in the Roosters 64–30 victory over the North Queensland Cowboys at the SFS. Kenny-Dowall finished his debut year in the NRL with playing in 14 matches and scored 8 tries in the 2007 NRL season. At the end of the season he was selected for the New Zealand All Golds to play against the Northern Union in October as part of the 2007 All Golds Tour. He missed out on selection for the New Zealand Kiwis for the 2007 Baskerville Shield test series against the Great Britain Lions but was selected for the test against France due to the injury of Taniela Tuiaki, scoring a try on test debut in the 22–14 win.
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