Tai McIsaac

Tai McIsaac

Personal information
Full name	Tai McIsaac
Date of birth	19 March 1975
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	112 kg (17 st 9 lb)
Club information
Position	Hooker
Current club
Senior clubs*
Years Club Apps (points) 2000–05 2007 2006–09 Gold Coast Breakers Perth Spirit Wests-Subiaco
Super Rugby
Super Rugby 2003–05 2006–09 Queensland Reds Western Force 16 (0) 51 (5)
Representative teams
2006 2003 Australia Australia A 8 (0)
Professional clubs coached
2015 2011–14 Perth Spirit Toyota Shokki
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Tai McIsaac (born 19 March 1975 in Brisbane) is an Australian rugby union football coach, and a former professional player. He is currently the head coach of the Perth Spirit team in Australia's National Rugby Championship.^[1] McIsaac played as a hooker for the Western Force and Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition before retiring from playing in 2009.

Career

Prior to rugby, McIsaac had been a National League water polo player and represented Australian water polo in the under-21 team. Although he eventually specialised as a hooker, McIsaac started out in rugby at the age of 23, playing as a prop. He began his rugby career at Bond Pirates in the Gold Coast District Rugby Union, later moving on to the Gold Coast Breakers in Queensland Premier Rugby. McIsaac's first professional contract was with the Queensland Reds in the Super 12 competition. He made his Super 12 debut in 2003 in a match against New Zealand team, the Crusaders. Also that year, McIsaac toured Japan with Australia A.^[2]

In 2005, he signed with the Western Force for their inaugural season in 2006. McIsaac made his debut for the Wallabies against England in 2006, and went on to claim 8 Test caps in that season. After four seasons at the Force, he retired from playing rugby in 2009.^[3]

McIsaac began his coaching career with Honda Heat in Japan for the 2009–10 season. McIsaac was head coach of the Toyota Industries Shuttles for several seasons until 2013–14.^[3] He then returned to Australia to take up an assistant coaching position at the Western Force in 2015. He was also appointed head coach of the Perth Spirit for the 2015 season of the National Rugby Championship.^[1]

References

1. Taylor, Nick (22 July 2015). "New role for Force's McIsaac". The West Australian. Archived from the original on 5 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
2. "Tai McIsaac and Richard Brown join Western Force". Sports Australia. 17 April 2005. Archived from the original on 3 September 2006.
3. "Club favourite returns for Force's 10th season". RugbyWA. 28 November 2014. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.

External links

• ESPN Scrum profile
• It's Rugby profile
• "Player Profile", Western Force, archived from the original on 2007
• "Staff and Members", Toyota Shokki, archived from the original on 2013