Garry Lo

Gary Lo
Personal information
Full name Gary Lo
Born (1993-11-01) 1 November 1993
Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 98 kg (15 st 6 lb)
Playing information
Position centre, wing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2011–12 Mount Hagen Eagles 50 18 0 0 72
2013 Port Moresby Vipers 16 13 0 0 50
2014–15 PNG Hunters 21 24 0 0 96
2016– Sheffield Eagles 0 0 0 0 0
Total 87 55 0 0 218
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2014– Papua New Guinea 2 3 0 0 12
As of 23 November 2015
Source:

Gary Lo (born 1 November 1993) is a Papua New Guinean rugby league player, a fast-finishing wing who currently plays for the Sheffield Eagles. He is a current Papua New Guinea international.

He has represented Papua New Guinea in the Prime Minister's XIII game between Australia and PNG between 2014 and the one off match between Tonga and PNG Kumuls in 2014 in Lae.

Early Years

Born in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, Lo played junior rugby league in local rugby league clubs and then played for Gomis Panthers RLFC in Mount Hagen

Playing career

2011

Mount Hagen Eagles, a local rugby league club in the Digicel Cup, had him in a train and trial in the off-season and he eventually earned a spot in the wing and centres, he played with Mount Hagen Eagles for an other season in 2012.

2013

Lo, due to study commitments at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby, he left Mount Hagen Eagles and was signed by Port Moresby Vipers, where he played for the rest of 2013 season when Port Moresby Vipers the 2013 Digicel Cup premiership.

2014

PNG Hunters in its debut season in the Queensland Cup, a second tier competition in Australia, Lo was selected among other emerging and players. Lo impressed the rugby league fans in Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea with his speed and power on the flanks and was dubbed as a try-scoring machine and 'mini Matt Utai'. He was awarded the top try scorer award in 2014 (24 tries) in the Queensland Cup

2015


During 2014 off-season, Gary left for Gateshead Thunder in England with his club-mate Jason Tali, and Mark Mexico joining from NRL club Sutherland Sharks, which made the headlines in the local news. A controversial signing in which Stanley Gene was criticized for player grabbing.

But in a twist, he left England and was back in the Papua New Guinea and apologized to the Hunters team for the wrong decision he made to leave them. However, the PNG Hunters made it very clear that there would be no fast return for the Kumuls winger, as he seeks to rejoin the team for the 2015 Queensland Cup

Lo then announced that he would join this roots club, Mount Hagen Eagles in the Digicel Cup in 2015, where he was appointed captain.

Just before the Digicel Cup kick off, PNG Hunters Coach, Michael Marum, named Gary Lo in round 6 in an extended 21 player team to take on the inform Mackay Cutters, after poor performance and injuries to strike players for PNG Hunters.

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