Jan Uys

Jan Uys

Personal information
Full name	Jan-Frederik Uys
Born	3 January 1994 Potchefstroom, South Africa
Height	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	120 kg (18 st 13 lb)
School(s) attended	Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch
University	University of South Africa
Club information
Playing position	Lock
Current club	Pau
Youth career
2010–14	Western Province
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
2014	UCT Ikey Tigers	5	(0)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Pts)^†
2014	Western Province	8	(0)
2015	Eastern Province Kings	0	(0)
2015–	Pau	0	(0)
Representative team(s)^‡
2010	S.A. Under-16 High Performance squad		()
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 13 October 2015. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 6 November 2014.

Jan-Frederik Uys (born 3 January 1994 in Potchefstroom, South Africa) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with French Top 14 club, Pau.^[1] His regular position is lock.

Career

Youth and Varsity Cup rugby

He attended and played high school rugby for Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch. This led to his selection in the Western Province side that played at the Under-16 Grant Khomo Week in Upington in 2010. This, in turn, earned him an inclusion in a South African Under-16 High Performance squad that attended a training camp in Cape Town.^[2] In 2011, Uys represented the Western Province Under-18 side that played at the Academy Week tournament.

He joined the Western Province Rugby Institute after high school and played for the Western Province U19 team that played in the 2013 Under-19 Provincial Championship.

In 2014, he played in the first five matches of the UCT Ikey Tigers' 2014 Varsity Cup, a competition that UCT went on to win, beating the NWU Pukke in the final.^[3] After a stint playing Vodacom Cup rugby (see below, Uys played a big part in the Western Province U21 side's 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship campaign. He made eight appearances during the season to help them finish top of the log and subsequently reach the final of the tournament. He played in the final, but could not prevent his side losing the final 20–10 to the Blue Bulls U21s on home soil.^[4][5]

Western Province

Uys made his first class debut during the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition. He started Western Province's opening match of the season, a 16–8 victory over near-neighbours Boland Cavaliers.^[6] He made five consecutive starts for Western Province at the start of the competition and played off the bench in the final two matches of the group stages of the competition. He also came on as a substitute in their Quarter Final match against the Pumas, which ended in a 13–8 victory for the Nelspruit-based side to see Western Province eliminated from the competition.^[7]

He also played in their matches against Kenya^[8] and Namibia^[9] in June 2014.

Eastern Province Kings

He then moved from the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape, joining Port Elizabeth-based side the Eastern Province Kings for the 2015 season.^[10] He made eleven appearances for the Under-21 team during the 2015 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group A and also captained the side on occasion,^[11] but failed to break through into the senior squad.

Pau

At the end of 2015, he left Port Elizabeth and moved to France, where he joined Top 14 side Pau for the 2015–16 season.^[12]

References

1. "SARU Player Profile Jan Uys". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
2. "SA U16 High Performance squad". SuperSport. 3 August 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
3. "Match Breakdown: FNB NWU-PUKKE vs FNB UCT 1ST XV". South African Rugby Union. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
4. "Blue Bulls crowned champions in Absa Under-21 final". South African Rugby Union. 25 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
5. "Match Breakdown: Western Province U21 vs Blue Bulls U21". South African Rugby Union. 25 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
6. "Match Breakdown: DHL Western Province vs Regent Boland Cavaliers". South African Rugby Union. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
7. "Match Breakdown: Steval Pumas vs DHL Western Province". South African Rugby Union. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
8. "DHL WP win in Kenya". Western Province. 7 June 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
9. "DHL WP lose it at the death". Western Province. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
10. "EP Kings Pre Season Training Squad announcedee". Rugby15. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
11. "SA Rugby Match Centre – EP Kings U21 14-73 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
12. "Kings-unie vrees glo mosie van wantroue". Die Son (in Afrikaans). 13 October 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.