Roman Hifo

Roman Hifo

Personal information
Born	17 April 1986 Auckland, New Zealand
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	101 kg (15 st 13 lb)
Playing information
Position	loose forward
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2013	United States	3	0	0	0	0
Source: [1]

Roman Hifo is a rugby league player who represented the United States in the 2013 World Cup.

Playing career

Hifo played for the Waitakere Rangers in the 2007 Bartercard Cup. He was then signed by the New Zealand Warriors for their development squad.^[2]

In 2010 Hifo played for the Papakura Sea Eagles in the Auckland Rugby League competition, where he was named the lock of the year. In 2011 and 2012 he played for the Counties Manukau Stingrays in the National Competition.

In 2013 Hifo captained the Mangere East Hawks.^[3] He was named in the United States squad for the World Cup, qualifying through his American Samoan heritage.

Coaching career

In his 2015 off-season Roman was in charge of Ōtāhuhu College's senior rugby league team, a college that produced players the likes of Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, in their National Rugby League Secondary Schools championship campaign. They took on 13-time national champions St Paul's from Auckland. Roman's team were down 13-0 at half-time but pulled the margin back to 5 points inside the remaining few minutes of the match. It was a dramatic finish to the match with Roman's team scoring another try in the final 10 seconds of the game pulling the score back to 17-16, leaving it down to a conversion after the full-time siren. Roman's team converted the goal and therefore won the title for the first time since 2011.^[4]

References

1. Roman Hifo rugbyleagueproject.org
2. Bears out to blunt Hornets' sting in Auckland comp warriors.co.nz, 25 May 2012
3. Tougher prey for Hawks stuff.co.nz, 8 August 2013
4. "Ōtāhuhu College take out 2015 National Rugby League Championships". Māori Television. 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2015-09-11.