Jed Holloway

Jed Holloway
Birth name Jed Holloway
Date of birth (1992-11-02) 2 November 1992
Place of birth Wollongong, NSW
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 116 kg (18 st 4 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Number Eight / Flank, Lock
Current team Waratahs
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2014–pres. Greater Sydney Rams 12 (45)
Correct as of 4 November 2015
Super Rugby
Years Team Apps (Points)
2013–pres. Waratahs 20 (23)
Correct as of 3 June 2017
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2010
2012		 Australian Schools
Australia U20		 1
3		 (0)
(5)
Correct as of 12 October 2012

Jed Holloway (born 2 November 1992) is an Australian professional rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Waratahs in Super Rugby and is captain of the Greater Sydney Rams team in the National Rugby Championship.[1] His usual playing positions are back row and lock.

Early life

Jed Holloway was born in Wollongong, where he first played junior rugby with the Woonona Shamrocks club.[2] His family moved to Yamba in northern New South Wales when he was nine years of age, and he joined the Yamba Buccaneers junior rugby club.[2] Holloway later attended Waverley College in Sydney and was selected for the Australian Schoolboys side in 2010.[3]

Rugby career

Holloway joined the Southern Districts club where he played his senior club rugby in the Shute Shield competition. He represented Australia U20 in South Africa at the 2012 IRB Junior World Championship.[4]

Jed playing for the Rams, 2014

He was contracted to the Waratahs extended playing squad for the 2013 season,[5] and made his Super Rugby debut against the Western Force in March of that year.[2][6]

At the age of 21, Holloway was named captain of the Greater Sydney Rams team for the inaugural season of Australia's National Rugby Championship in 2014.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "NRC Team of the week". Australian Rugby. 4 September 2017. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jed Holloway". Waratahs. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Australian Schools players" (PDF). Australian Schools Rugby. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jed Holloway IRB profile". Archived from the original on 3 July 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "NSW Waratahs sign Sam Lane, Jed Holloway, Matt Lucas and Luke Holmes for 2013". Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  6. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Waratahs 23-19 Force". South African Rugby Union. 31 March 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "PCS Greater Sydney RAMS name side to face NSW Country Eagles in their first NRC Game". Rams Rugby. 21 August 2014. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
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