Leone Nawai

Last updated

Leone Nawai
Date of birth (1995-08-15) 15 August 1995 (age 29)
Place of birthFiji
Height174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb; 12 st 13 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half
Current team Fijian Drua
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2022– Fijian Drua 1 (0)
Correct as of 23 April 2022
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2014–2015 Fiji U20 7 (0)
Correct as of 23 April 2022

Leone Nawai (born 15 August 1995) is a Fijian rugby union player, currently playing for the Taranaki in New Zealand and was named in the Chiefs squad for the 2025 Super Rugby Pacific. His preferred position is scrum-half. [1]

Contents

Attended Ratu Kadavulevu School and played for their first fifteen in 2014 and was named for Fiji U20's for the Junior World Championship in 2015.

Played 4 seasons for Suva in the Skipper Cup in Fiji and was one of their key players before he was rewarded with a contract with the Drua in their inaugural season in 2022.

Professional career

Nawai was named in the Fijian Drua squad for the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season. [2] [3] He made his debut for the Drua in Round 10 of the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season against the Blues. [4]

Ultimately he couldn't get enough gametime with the Drua in Super Rugby with incumbent Frank Lomani, Simi Kuruvoli and Peni Matawalu, the preferred options.

Nawai decide to try his fortunes elsewhere and moved to NZ and signed with Taranaki Bulls in the Bunnings Warehouse NPC [5] and great season has seen him selected for the Chiefs squad [6] for the 2025 season.

References

  1. ↑ "Leone Nawai". Ultimate Rugby. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  2. ↑ @Fijian_Drua (21 November 2021). "Bula! Vinaka (thank you) @SuperRugbyNZ! We love it here" (Tweet). Retrieved 22 November 2021– via Twitter.
  3. ↑ "Australian and Fijian Drua squads revealed for 2022 Super Rugby Pacific". Rugby Pass. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  4. ↑ "Super Rugby Pacific: Blues fail to impress in victory of Fijian Drua". NZ Herald. 23 April 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  5. ↑ "Sport News Taranaki". www.sportsnewstaranaki.co.nz. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  6. ↑ Manager, Akuila Cama Deputy News. "Fijian trio for Chiefs". Fiji Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 March 2025.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.