Nathan Hirayama

Nathan Hirayama
Rugby union career

Hirayama at the 2015 Rugby World Cup
Date of birth	(1988-03-23) March 23, 1988
Place of birth	Richmond, British Columbia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	90 kg (200 lb)
School	Hugh McRoberts Secondary
University	University of Victoria
Playing career
Position	Fly-half / Fullback
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Richmond RFC University of Victoria
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
	BC Bears
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2008 2008-	Canada U20 Canada	5 23	(27) (47)
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
	Canada

Nathan Hirayama (born March 23, 1988) is a Canadian rugby union player who plays at fly-half as well as can provide cover at fullback. Hirayama currently plays for the University of Victoria in the British Columbia Premiership and for the BC Bears in the Canadian Rugby Championship.

He made his debut for the Canadian sevens team in the 2006 Dubai Sevens in the IRB Series at 18. Two years later he debuted for the Canadian national men's team against Portugal in Lisbon.

Hirayama was selected for the Canadian national team to attend the 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups although he did not play any games in 2007.

He was selected for the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Russia helping Canada to win the Plate competition and finishing as the tournament's top scorer with 49 points.

Personal

Hirayama's father, Gary Hirayama, also represented Canada in both codes of the game in the eighties winning 12 caps as fly half for the national team,^[1] and was also part of Canada's first sevens team to travel to Hong Kong.^[2] Together they are the first-ever rugby-playing father/son duo for Canada.

References

↑ "GARRY HIRAYAMA Canada". Retrieved 19 September 2015.
↑ "Profile: Nathan Hirayama". Retrieved 19 September 2015.

External links

Canada squad – 2015 Rugby World Cup

Barkwill Carpenter Piffero Buydens Ilnicki Sears-Duru Tiedemann Wooldridge Beukeboom Cudmore Olmstead Dala Gilmour Moonlight Sinclair Ardron (c) Thorpe Mack J. Mackenzie McRorie Hirayama Underwood Blevins Braid Hearn Parfrey Trainor Hassler P. Mackenzie Van Der Merwe Evans Jones Pritchard Crowley

Canada squad – 2011 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Buydens Carpenter Cudmore Dala Erichsen Franklin Hamilton Hotson Kleeberger Kyne Marshall O'Toole Riordan Sinclair Tiedemann Walsh

Backs	Evans Fairhurst Hearn Hirayama J. Mackenzie P. Mackenzie Monro Paris Pritchard Scholz Smith Trainor van der Merwe White

Coach	Crowley

Canada squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Biddle Burak Carpenter Cudmore (injured) Franklin Jackson (rep) James Kleeberger D. Pletch M. Pletch Riordan Snow Stephen Tait Thiel Webb Yukes

Backs	Culpan Daypuck Fairhurst Hirayama Mensah-Coker Monro Pritchard Pyke Smith Spicer Trenkel van der Merwe Weingart Williams

Coach	Suggitt

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