Pat McCabe (rugby union)

For other people with this name, see Pat McCabe (disambiguation).

Pat McCabe

Pat McCabe playing for the Brumbies
Full name	Patrick Joseph McCabe
Date of birth	21 March 1988 (1988-03-21)
Place of birth	Manly, Sydney
Height	186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	92 kg (14 st 7 lb)
School	St Aloysius' College
University	Macquarie University
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Full back Winger Centre
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
2007-Present 2007	Warringah Rats Central Coast Rays
Super Rugby
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2010 -	ACT Brumbies	27	(20)
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2010 -	Australia	5	(5)

Pat McCabe (born 21 March 1988) is a professional Australian rugby union player. He plays with the ACT Brumbies in the Super 15, and Warringah in Sydney and has represented Australia. He is a utility player, able to cover inside centre, outside centre, winger or fullback.

Professional rugby career

McCabe joined the Brumbies training squad in 2009 and the full-time squad for 2010 on a 2 year contract. He was the Brumbies 'Player of the Tour' in their four-match French tour in July/August 2009. He had a knee injury in 2008 which prevented him from playing Super 14 but recovered to play on the end of season tour.

He established a starting position at the Brumbies on the right wing (#14) in the 2010 Super 14. After just 4 rounds he got a talk up from his coach Andy Friend basically just saying that he was carving it and had the ability to play for the Wallabies. He was the only Brumbies player to play every minute of the 2010 Super 14 regular season. He was later named the 2010 Australian Super 14 rookie of the year, capping off a successful debut season.

After initially being selected in the Australian sevens team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, but having to withdraw due to injury,

McCabe has won the ARC with the Central Coast Rays, featured for Australia in the 2007 U/19 World Cup, and played for the NSW Waratahs on a development tour of Europe in 2006. He was also the Rat Boys' Best & Fairest in 2008 scoring 21 tries.

Wallabies career

McCabe was selected on the Wallabies 2010 tour of Europe. He featured in midweek games against Leicester and Munster, before winning his debut Test Cap against Italy, appearing as a late substitute for Adam Ashley-Cooper in the Wallabies win over the Azzurri at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence. He was later named the Rugby Union Players Association's newcomer of the year. Pat made his Rugby World Cup debut in 2011 in New Zealand also against Italy playing at Inside Centre, he featurred in the same position in his second and third games versus Ireland and the USA respectively, before missing the next game against Russia due to a shoulder injury sustained in the USA match.

External links

• Brumbies profile