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Born | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 8 January 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (12 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Halfback, Hooker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Craig Priestly is an Australian rugby league footballer who represented United States in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.
Priestly was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and is currently a Real Estate Agent in Maine, USA.
Priestly played 46 games for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Queensland Cup. [2] He currently plays for the Southampton Dragons in the AMNRL.
In 2013, Priestly was named in the United States squad for the World Cup. [3] [4] [5]
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