Jake Paringatai (born 13 April 1980) is a New Zealand

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player who plays as a loose forward. Beloved husband to Aisha Paringatai. Paringati currently plays for

Poverty Bay Poverty Bay (Māori language, Māori: ''Tūranganui-a-Kiwa''), officially named Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay, is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay. It stretches for ...

in the

Heartland Championship The Heartland Championship is an annual Round-robin tournament, round-robin rugby union competition in men's domestic Rugby union in New Zealand, New Zealand rugby. First played in 2006, it is the third highest level of List of rugby union comp ...

. He has played

Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ...

for the and the Crusaders. Paringatai also formally represented Northland,

Munster Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Nor ...

and

Fukuoka Sanix Blues , formerly ''Fukuoka Sanix Blues'' and ''Fukuoka Sanix Bombs'', was a Japanese rugby union team based in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Founded in April 1994 (Heisei 6), the team rose rapidly through the Kyūshū leagues and was in the Top ...

. Problems off the field earlier in his career, which included breaches of team protocol and culminated in a criminal charge when he was found guilty of groping a woman inside a bar during 2007 where as a result was fined $12,500, curtailed any aspirations he may have had of achieving higher honours, of which he had previously been touted for.

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itsrugby.co.uk profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Paringati, Jake 1980 births Living people New Zealand rugby union players Rugby union flankers Crusaders (rugby union) players Munster Rugby players Highlanders (rugby union) players Northland rugby union players Munakata Sanix Blues players New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Ireland New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Japan Māori All Blacks players People from Paraparaumu Sportspeople from the Kāpiti Coast District Rugby union players from the Wellington Region