Gabriel Farley is a

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and

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player who plays for the

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in Major League Rugby (MLR). He represented the United States Rugby League Team at the

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and the

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. He also played for USA Rugby U'20's All-Americans at the

2014 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy The 2014 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy was the seventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, second-tier world championship. The event was held in Hong Kong and was organized by rugby's governing body, the Int ...

. Primarily playing as a Center, Fullback and Wing in both codes of rugby.

Playing career

Gabriel played his junior

at the

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, progressing to the Under 15's, 16's and 17's development squads. In high school he attended

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in Sydney, Australia playing in the 1st XV for the 2011 & 2012 season. In 2013, Gabe received a scholarship to attend

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in Saint Louis, Missouri where he received a Bachelors degree. It was also in 2013 that he was named also in America's squad for the

, at which point he had played only one game for the Southampton Dragons in the

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. In April 2014, he represented the United States in

at the under 20's

in Hong Kong. Playing in all four tournament matches and scoring two tries against

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. In 2017, Gabriel joined the

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in the

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. Following a solid performance at the

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, Gabe was further selected in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup squads for the United States Rugby League Team. During a brief stint in Australia during the 2018 season, Gabriel was also selected in the New South Wales Tertiary Rugby League team after th
Annual Tertiary Challenge
at Panthers Stadium
Farley returns to rugby union on a deal that will also see him registered for the Austin Herd. He debuted for the Austin Huns Red River D1 side, scoring a try as a replacement against Dallas RFC
Austin Gilgroni's add Gabriel Farley for the 2020 Major League Rugby season.

References

External links

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2017 RLWC profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Farley, Gabriel 1994 births Living people American rugby league players American rugby union players Austin Gilgronis players Houston SaberCats players Philadelphia Fight players Rugby league centres Rugby union centres Southampton Dragons players United States national rugby league team players