Luke Cowan-Dickie

Luke Cowan-Dickie
Date of birth (1993-06-20) 20 June 1993
Place of birth Truro, England
Height 6.0 ft (1.84 m)
Weight 17 st 9 lb (112 kg)[1]
Notable relative(s) Tom Cowan-Dickie (Brother)
Occupation(s) Professional rugby union player
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop/Hooker
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2010– Exeter Chiefs 76 (65)
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2011
2012–2013
2015–		 England U18
England U20
England		 0
11
9		 (0)
(5)
(0)

Luke Cowan-Dickie is a Cornish rugby union player for Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership. He can play at both prop and hooker and made his debut for the club against Cavalieri Prato in the Amlin Challenge Cup on 19 November 2011.[2]

Cowan-Dickie has previously been dual-registered with both the Cornish Pirates and Plymouth Albion to aid his player development.

Outside of Rugby, Luke is an Avid Gamer and streams on Twitch under the username CowanDickie.

Exeter Chiefs Career

Luke Cowan-Dickie has played 46 times for Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership including starting in the 2016 Aviva Premiership final. In addition Cowan-Dickie has also featured in the LV Cup for the Chiefs, the Aviva Premiership A League, Amlin Challenge Cup and European Champions Cup.

Cowan-Dickie debuted in 2011 for the Chiefs at just 18 years of age. He made his Premiership debut in 2014 and has since scored 8 tries in the competition including a hat-trick against Quins in 2016.[3] He started the final as Exeter Chiefs defeated Wasps to be crowned champions of the 2016-17 English Premiership.[4]

International career

Cowan-Dickie has represented England under-18 and England under-20s.[5] He has featured for England's A side, the England Saxons, and on 20 May 2015, he was named in the 50-man training squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.[6] On 15 August 2015, Cowan-Dickie made his full international debut against France in a warm-up match for the 2015 World Cup at Twickenham. Cowan-Dickie has 4 international caps for England all of which have been on the bench. Though Cowan-Dickie has 4 international appearances he is yet to score a try.

In 2016 he was ruled out of the November internationals with an ankle injury.

References

  1. ↑ "Statistics Official Aviva Premiership Website: Premiership Rugby Player Profile". Premiership Rugby. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  2. ↑ "Player Profile Exeter Chiefs". web page. Exeter Chiefs. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Premiership: Exeter 36-25 Harlequins". BBC. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Premiership final: Wasps 20-23 Exeter Chiefs (aet)". BBC. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Luke Cowan-Dickie - Official RFU England Profile". web page. RFU. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  6. ↑ England announce Rugby World Cup training group

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