Nic Groom
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nicholas James Groom | ||
| Born |
21 February 1990 King William's Town, South Africa | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Weight | 81 kg (12 st 11 lb) | ||
| School(s) attended |
Dale College Rondebosch Boys' High School | ||
| University | University of Cape Town | ||
| Club information | |||
| Playing position | Scrum-Half | ||
| Current club | Stormers | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2008–11 | Western Province | ||
| Amateur team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2010–11 | UCT Ikey Tigers | 8 | (5) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Pts)† |
| 2011–15 | Western Province | 69 | (50) |
| 2011–16 | Stormers | 43 | (15) |
| 2016– | Northampton Saints | 0 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 2 November 2015. | |||
Nicholas James Groom (born 21 February 1990) is a South African rugby union footballer. He plays as a scrum-half for the Stormers in Super Rugby.
In 2013, he signed a contract tying him to the Western Province and Stormers until the end of 2015.[1]
Career
A winner of the Varsity Cup with UCT in 2011, Groom received a swift call up to the Stormers side at the tail-end of the Super Rugby season to replace the injured Dewaldt Duvenhage and Ricky Januarie and he made a couple of substitute appearances. The next 18 months were to see him limited to Western Province appearances and he was a Currie Cup winner with the Streeptruie in 2012. 2013 saw the departure of Duvenhage and Groom was now in a one-on-one fight with Louis Schreuder for the Stormers and Province number 9 jersey and as a result he saw much more game time.He was a Currie Cup runner up in 2013 and he largely had to make do with appearances from the substitutes bench as Schreuder stole a march in the battle to be first choice scrum-half. However, he was to become a Currie Cup winner again in 2014, this time against the Golden Lions in a season which had seen him edge ahead of Louis Schreuder both at Super Rugby level where he started 12 of 16 games in a tough campaign and also domestically where he started 7 of 9 games and scored 1 try in the process.
He signed a contract to join English Premiership side Northampton Saints at the end of the 2016 Super Rugby season.[2]
Super Rugby Statistics
- As of 21 June 2015
| Season | Team | Games | Starts | Sub | Mins | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drops | Points | Yel | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Stormers | 2 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | Stormers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | Stormers | 9 | 4 | 5 | 371 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | Stormers | 16 | 12 | 4 | 924 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | Stormers | 16 | 13 | 3 | 955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 43 | 29 | 14 | 2285 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | |
References
- ↑ "Catrakilis en Groom mik hoog in 2014". Media24 (in Afrikaans). Beeld. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ↑ "DHL Stormers to bid Groom farewell" (Press release). Stormers. 2 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
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