Samuel Lockwood (born 8 April 1988) is an English former

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player for

Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team that play in Premiership Rugby, England's highest division of rugby union. The club was established in 1877 as the Gosforth Football Club. Around 1882 the club merged with the Northumberland Football Cl ...

Premiership Rugby Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 10 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby ...

. His primary position is

prop A prop, formally known as a (theatrical) property, is an object actors use on stage or screen during a performance or screen production. In practical terms, a prop is considered to be anything movable or portable on a stage or a set, distinct ...

. Amongst various early jobs including a lifeguard and a firefighter in Suffolk, Lockwood began playing rugby at

Middlesbrough RUFC Middlesbrough Rugby Union Football Club is an English rugby union team. One of two clubs of the area of Middlesbrough, the club runs five senior sides and ten junior teams. The initial club was formed in 1872, but it was not until 1892 when th ...

and did not start playing prop until he was 21 years old. Lockwood was a student at

Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley. The univer ...

and began playing for

Leeds Carnegie Leeds Carnegie was a brand name used by several sports teams associated with the Carnegie School of Physical Education, now part of Leeds Beckett University Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LM ...

in the

RFU Championship The RFU Championship is an English rugby union competition comprising twelve clubs. It is the second level of men's English rugby and is played by both professional and semi-professional players. The competition has existed since 1987, when Eng ...

, England's second tier. Lockwood joined

Jersey Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...

in January 2014, initially on loan until the end of that season. His form for Jersey saw him named in the 2014-15 RFU Championship ''Dream Team''. Then in 2016 Lockwood joined

, England's top tier. On 30 January 2019 Lockwood signed a new two-year contract with Newcastle. Lockwood became director of rugby at Norwich RUFC in 2022 along with joining Langley School to become the head rugby coach.

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1988 births Living people English rugby union players Newcastle Falcons players Jersey Reds players Rugby union players from Dewsbury Rugby union props {{England-rugbyunion-bio-1980s-stub