Pete Lucock

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Pete Lucock
Birth namePete Lucock
Date of birth (1992-11-27) 27 November 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Leeds, England
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight98 kg (15 st 6 lb)
School Allerton Grange School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2011–2019
2019–2020
2020–2021		 Leeds Tykes
Doncaster Knights
Newcastle Falcons 		164
5
11		 (103)
(10)
(0)
Correct as of 1 August 2021

Pete Lucock (born 27 November 1992) is an English rugby union player who last played for Newcastle Falcons in the Premiership Rugby.

Lucock is a graduate of Leeds Tykes mini-rugby club and he is the only player to have come through the ranks in such a way to play for the first team. He played in the Leeds Tykes minis team until it folded when he joined Moortown RUFC as a junior. He played for Yorkshire RU under 15s, 16s and 18s and for the North at under 16s. Lucock signed for Leeds Carnegie aged 15 and made his first team debut against Rotherham Titans in September 2011 having been promoted to the senior squad ahead of the RFU Championship season. He went on to appear 23 times for the first team (20 in The Championship), helping the team to a play-off finish. [1] In the 2012-13 season he registered his first try in the away fixture against Plymouth Albion but made only 11 appearances in the season due to an injury which sidelined him for four months.

Lucock suffered a season-ending knee injury in November 2013 which limited his appearances that season to 11 games but he impressed sufficiently to secure a two-year contract with Carnegie ahead of the 2014-15 season. During that season, he was one of the stars of the team for Leeds, missing just one game over the campaign (25 appearances almost all at inside centre) and earning the honour of Carnegie Player of the Season. [2] He followed this up with a further 26 appearances during the 2015-16 season, featuring in both of the side’s play off games. He was an almost ever present during the 2016-17 campaign (23 appearances) and played in both play off final legs against London Irish, when the team almost clinched promotion back to the top flight. [3]

During the 2017-18 season, he played a further 22 games, mainly as a makeshift fly-half, became only the sixth player in the club's history to make 100 league appearances for the club, and was voted players' player of the season. He then agreed a new deal for 2018-19 season. [4]

In his final season for Yorkshire Carnegie, 2018-19, he played a further 23 games and was selected as the 12 in the 2018/19 Championship Dream Team XV [5] He finished his career at Headingley having made 164 first team appearances, the most of any back in the history of the club.

On 24 April 2019, Lucock signed for Championship rivals Doncaster Knights from the 2019-20 season. [6] However, Lucock made only limited appearances for Doncaster due to a torn ACL injury in October 2019. [7]

On 8 August 2020, Lucock moved up to the Premiership Rugby with Newcastle Falcons on a three-year deal from the 2020-21 season. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Championship Fixtures 2011-12 and Play-offs confirmed". Rugby World. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Yorkshire Carnegie Player of the Year 2014-15 - Pete Lucock". YouTube .
  3. ↑ "Leeds Tykers vs London Irish". Ultimate Rugby. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  4. ↑ "Pete Lucock agrees new contract with Yorkshire Canregie". Ultimate Rugby. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  5. ↑ "TRP's Championship Dream Team XV 2018-19". 11 May 2019.
  6. ↑ "Doncaster Knights sign Yorkshire Carnegie centre Pete Lucock". Doncaster Free Press. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "Lucock: Newcastle were the best team I've seen come down to the Championship". The Rugby Paper. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  8. ↑ "Newcastle Falcons sign centre Pete Lucock". Talking Rugby Union. 8 August 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
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