Cadeyrn Neville (born 9 November 1988) is an Australian
rugby union
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player. His regular playing position is
lock
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. He represents the
ACT Brumbies
The ACT Brumbies (known from 2005–2022 as simply the Brumbies) is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), The team competes in Super Rugby and named for the feral horses which inhab ...
in
Super Rugby
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.
Early career
Neville began attending
Manly Selective Campus
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, location = 138 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl, New South Wales
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in 2001.
Neville joined the
Australian Institute of Sport
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rowing program and left school in 2006.
As a rower he represented Australia at the
Youth Olympics,
and trained with Australian rower
Tom Swann, as both began their long-term preparations for the 2012 Olympics. Neville said, "The program I was in at the AIS when I left school in 2006, the goal of that was to produce a single sculler for London."
In 2008, Neville played junior rugby league for the Narraweena Hawks, in the Manly Warringah A Grade competition.
It wasn't until 2009 that he took up rugby union
and completed his first season for the