Codie Taylor

Codie Taylor
Full name Codie Joshua Dane Taylor
Date of birth (1991-03-31) 31 March 1991
Place of birth Levin, New Zealand
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 106 kg (234 lb)
School Feilding High School
Horowhenua College[1]
Notable relative(s) Walter Pringle (great-great-grandfather)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Hooker
New Zealand No. 1143
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2012– Canterbury 21 (25)
correct as of 19 October 2014.
Super Rugby
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2013– Crusaders 19 (5)
correct as of 14 June 2015.
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2011
2014
2015–
New Zealand under-20
Māori All Blacks
New Zealand
5
2
4
(0)
(5)
(10)
correct as of 25 September 2015.

Codie Joshua Dane Taylor (born 31 March 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker for Canterbury in the ITM Cup.[2] Having grown up in Feilding and Levin before moving to Christchurch[3] he was a member of the Crusaders Wider Training Squad for the 2012 Super Rugby season and he has subsequently been promoted to the senior squad for the 2013 season.[4][5]

Taylor was part of the Junior All Blacks team which won the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship.[6]

Of Ngāti Raukawa and Muaūpoko descent, Taylor played for the Māori All Blacks in 2014.[7]

Taylor was selected for the All Blacks 2015 Squad against Samoa.[8] His first game for the All Blacks was the opening match of the 2015 Rugby Championship against Argentina, when he came on in the 59th minute to replace Kevin Mealamu as Hooker. He scored a try on debut, in the 71st minute, after the All Blacks won a scrum close to the Argentine line.[9]

Taylor was named in the All Blacks 31-man squad to go to the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England.

Taylor is the great-great-grandson of All Blacks player Walter Pringle.[10]

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