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Full name | Du'Plessis Ariu Kirifi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 March 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | New Plymouth, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (227 lb; 16 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Francis Douglas Memorial College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Du'Plessis Ariu Kirifi (born 3 March 1997) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for the Hurricanes in Super Rugby. His playing position is flanker. He has signed for the Hurricanes squad in 2019. [1]
He attended Francis Douglas Memorial College in New Plymouth [2] and is of Samoan descent. [3]
Francis Douglas Memorial College is an all-boys state-integrated Catholic school with boarding facilities located in Westown, New Plymouth, New Zealand. The college was founded in 1959 under the leadership of the De La Salle Brothers, a religious order of brothers based on the teachings of St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle. It is one of two secondary schools established by the Brothers in New Zealand, the other being De La Salle College, Mangere East, Auckland. The name of the school is dedicated to the memory of Father Francis Vernon Douglas, a missionary priest who was killed while doing missionary work in the Philippines during the Second World War. The school educates approximately 760 boys, 130 of whom are boarders. The 60th Jubilee of Francis Douglas Memorial College was held on Queen's Birthday Weekend, 2019.
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