Reesjan Pasitoa

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Reesjan Pasitoa
Date of birth (2001-12-03) 3 December 2001 (age 23) [1]
Place of birth Australia
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight98 kg (216 lb; 15 st 6 lb)
School St Joseph's College, Nudgee
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half, Inside Centre
Super Rugby
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2020–2021 Brumbies 10 (2)
2022– Force 14 (10)
Correct as of 29 May 2022
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2018–2019 Australia Schools & U18 6  [a] (31)
Correct as of 4 October 2019

Reesjan Pasitoa (born 3 December 2001) is an Australian professional rugby union player. He currently plays for the Western Force in Super Rugby, [2] having previously played for the Brumbies. [3] His usual position is fly-half. [3] [4]

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Early life

Raised in Perth, Western Australia, [5] Reesjan Pasitoa played his junior rugby with the Perth-Bayswater club and Trinity College, East Perth. [6] He moved to Queensland in 2017 to attend St Joseph's College, Nudgee on a rugby scholarship for his final three years of school. [6] Pasitoa guided Nudgee to consecutive GPS premierships in 2017 and 2018, [7] kicking the game-winning goal against arch-rivals Gregory Terrace in his first season.

He was selected for the 2018 Australian Schools & Under-18 team and played in Brisbane against Tonga  [8] and New Zealand, [9] before playing on their successful Northern Hemisphere tour against Scotland  [10] and Ireland. [11] In the following year, he steered the team to away victories over Fiji  [12] and New Zealand in Hamilton. [13]

Rugby career

Pasitoa joined the Brumbies squad in Canberra ahead of the 2020 season. [14] He had actually signed with the team in late 2018 but still had one year of school left to complete. [7] He made his Super Rugby debut for the Brumbies in February 2020 from the bench in their third round match against the Highlanders. [3] [15]

He signed with the Western Force after the 2021 season, in a return home to Perth where he had first started playing rugby. [2] [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pasitoa received four caps for the Australian Schools & Under-18 team in 2018  [b] and two more caps on their tour to New Zealand in late 2019. [c] [d]
  2. "Players with three or more 'Caps' to 2018". schoolsrugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019.
  4. "Fiji Schools — Australian Schools & U18s". Schools Rugby. 26 September 2019. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021.

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