Riley Price

Riley Price

Personal information
Full name	Riley Price
Born	(2001-06-07) 7 June 2001 (age 22) Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	96 kg (15 st 2 lb)
Playing information
Position	Second-row, Prop, Lock
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2023 North Qld Cowboys 2 0 0 0 0 2024– Penrith Panthers 0 0 0 0 0 Total 2 0 0 0 0
Source: [1] As of 7 April 2023

Riley Price (born 7 June 2001) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row , prop , lock forward for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League

He previously played for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League (NRL).

Background

Price was born in Hurstville, New South Wales while his father Steve, a Queensland and Australian representative, was playing for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. ^[2]

In 2005, Price moved to Auckland when his father joined the New Zealand Warriors. In Auckland, he played his first junior rugby league for the Mt Albert Lions. ^{[3] [4]} Price returned to Australia when he was 15-years old, living on the Sunshine Coast and playing rugby league for the Kawana Dolphins. ^[5]

His uncle, Brent Tate, is also a former Queensland and Australian representative. ^[6] His sister, Jamie-Lee Price, plays for Giants Netball in the Suncorp Super Netball and is a member of the Australian Diamonds Netball Squad. ^{[7] [8]}

Playing career

Early career

In 2018, Price played for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Mal Meninga Cup and Hastings Deering Colts competitions. ^{[9] [10]}

In 2019, after starting the season with the Falcons, Price signed with the North Queensland Cowboys and played for the Townsville Blackhawks under-20s side. ^{[11] [12] [13]}

In 2020, he was named in the Queensland under-20 Emerging Origin squad. ^[14]

In 2021, Price played for the Blackhawks in the Queensland Cup and re-signed with the Cowboys until the end of 2023, joining their NRL squad. ^[15] While on a development contract, he spent the entire 2022 season playing in the Queensland Cup. ^[16]

2023

In round 5 of the 2023 NRL season, Price made his first grade debut against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, coincidentally the club his father played for, ^[17] at Stadium Australia which ended in a 15-14 loss during golden point extra-time. ^[18]

References

1. "Riley Price - Career Stats & Summary". Rugby League Project. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
2. "Blackhawks to debut Riley Price, son of Queensland legend Steve Price". Townsville Bulletin. 9 April 2021.
3. "Price: Growing up I've been lucky to have him by my side". NQ Cowboys. 28 December 2021.
4. "Central teams lose in contests". Stuff.co.nz. 28 August 2013.
5. "Whirlwind ride to NRL stardom set to culminate for Cowboys young gun Riley Price". Sporting News. 2 March 2022.
6. "Riley Price on his unique Johnathan Thurston connection, family ties to Cowboys". Townsville Bulletin. 9 February 2023.
7. Valuable in her own right New Zealand Herald, 25 November 2002
8. Catalano, Alex (19 August 2021). "Family is everything: Jamie-Lee Price at home in Queensland". The Inner Sanctum. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
9. "QRL U18 Mal Meninga Cup - 2018 Round 6". League Unlimited. 10 April 2018.
10. "QRL U20 Hastings Deering Colts - 2018 Round 21". League Unlimited. 31 July 2018.
11. "QRL U20 Hastings Deering Colts - 2019 Round 11". League Unlimited. 21 May 2019.
12. "Riley Price". 18thman.com. November 2019.
13. "17 Cowboys contracted players set for QRL finals today". NQ Cowboys. 5 September 2019.
14. "Cowboys named in 2020 Qld U20s Emerging Origin squad". NQ Cowboys. 22 December 2019.
15. "Cowboys re-sign young trio". NQ Cowboys. 12 May 2021.
16. "2022 Cowboys allocations". Townsville Blackhawks. 1 February 2022.
17. @nthqldcowboys (28 March 2023). "Riley Price will make his NRL debut this Sunday against the @NRL_Bulldogs, the club his dad, Steve, played 222 games for between 1994-04" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 May 2023– via Twitter.
18. "Cowboys team list: Round 5 v Bulldogs". NQ Cowboys. 28 March 2023.

External links

• North Queensland Cowboys profile