Shaun Perry

Shaun Perry

Shaun Perry in possession of the ball
Full name	Shaun Andrew Perry
Date of birth	(1978-05-04) 4 May 1978 (age 38)
Place of birth	Wolverhampton
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	98 kg (15 st 6 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Scrum-half
Amateur clubs Years Club / team     1985–2003 2003–2005 Dudley Kingswinford RFC Coventry RFC
Professional / senior clubs Years Club / team Caps (points) 2000-2003 2003-2005 2005–2009 2009–2011 2011–2013 Dudley Kingswinford Coventry Bristol Rugby CA Brive Worcester Warriors 72 39 57 51 29 (276) (40) (50) (20) (5) Correct as of 23 July 2013
National team(s) Years Club / team Caps (points) 2006–2007 2006–2007 England Saxons England 14 (10) Correct as of 23 July 2013

Shaun Perry (born 4 May 1978) is a former English rugby union footballer, who last played for Worcester Warriors in the Aviva Premiership. His usual position was at scrum half.

Perry began playing rugby in the Youth Section of Dudley Kingswinford RFC at age 7. He rose through the age groups to eventually make his senior debut in the DKRFC Colts team. The next year at age 18 he was playing for the 1st XV, where he played for seven seasons before joining Coventry.

Born 4 May 1978 in Wolverhampton, Perry started his career at Dudley Kingswinford in tier 4 of the English club game. He scored over 270 points for the Midlands team including 52 tries with the highlight of his stay being the 2001-02 season where he was the league's top scorer with 25 tries, helping Dudley Kingswinford to a runners up spot and almost gaining promotion (they lost the playoff match). Perry's point scoring exploits saw him be picked up by another Midlands team, Coventry, whom he played for in National Division One for two seasons, during which time he scored a try in a match against his future club, Bristol. After eleven games for Bristol during the 2005–06 season, Perry was called up into the England A squad. He was given the captaincy for the match against Ireland A.

Towards the end of the 2005–06 season, Perry sustained a wrist injury which ruled him out for approximately eight weeks of play, and therefore also put him out of contention to represent England during the summer tests to Australia, for a two-test Cook Cup series. In August 2006, Perry was included in the 2006–07 England Elite Player Squad.