David Lolohea (born 26 February 1992) is an Australian-born Tongan
rugby union
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player, who plays for . His preferred position is
prop
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.
Early career
Lolohea is from
Penrith, grew up in
Mount Druitt
Mount Druitt is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown, and is part of the Greater Western Sydney regio ...
and attended
Hills Sports High School
Hills Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located on Best Road, Seven Hills, in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
E ...
. He professionally worked as a bouncer before playing rugby professionally and played his club rugby for West Harbour and Parramatta Two Blues.
Professional career
Lolohea played in the
National Rugby Championship
The National Rugby Championship, known as NRC, was an Australian rugby union competition. It was contested by eight teams, seven from Australia and one from Fiji. The tournament ran from 2014 until 2019 before being disbanded in 2020 following t ...
for both the and . His performances earned him a call-up to the side during the
2017 Super Rugby season
The 2017 Super Rugby season was the 22nd season of Super Rugby, an annual rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR between teams from Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. It was the second season featuring an expanded ...
.
He would go on take make 9 appearances that season for the Waratahs, however was not offered a new deal for 2018. Lolohea moved to France in 2018, first to , before representing and .
Lolohea represents
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...
internationally, making his debut for the side in 2018. He was named in the training squad ahead of the
2023 Rugby World Cup
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, but did not make the final squad for the tournament.
References
External links
itsrugby.co.uk Profile
Living people
1992 births
Australian rugby union players
Tongan rugby union players
Tonga international rugby union players
Rugby union props
Greater Sydney Rams players
Sydney (NRC team) players
New South Wales Waratahs players
USON Nevers players
Provence Rugby players
US Dax players
West Harbour RFC players
Parramatta Two Blues players
Australian expatriate rugby union players
Expatriate rugby union players in France
Australian sportspeople of Tongan descent
21st-century Australian sportsmen
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