Jaco Visagie
| Full name | Gerrit Jacobus Visagie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 July 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 105 kg (16 st 7 lb; 231 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Augsburg Agricultural Gymnasium, Clanwilliam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Pretoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerrit Jacobus Visagie (born 8 July 1992 in Cape Town) is a South African rugby union player for the Template:Rut Bulls in Super Rugby and the Template:Rut Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup and also plays for Stade Toulousain in the French Top 14.[1] His regular position is hooker.[2]
Career
Youth
Visagie represented the Boland Under-16 side at the 2008 Grant Khomo Week and the Under-18 side at the 2010 Craven Week competition. In 2010, he played for the Template:Rut Boland U19 side in the 2010 Under-19 Provincial Championship competition, making two appearances.
He then relocated to Pretoria to join the Template:Rut Blue Bulls, where he played regular rugby for the Template:Rut Blue Bulls U19 side that made it to the final of the 2011 Under-19 Provincial Championship competition before losing out to the Template:Rut Golden Lions U19 side. He also played for the Template:Rut Blue Bulls U21 side in the 2012 and 2013 Under-21 competitions, winning the competition in the former season and ending as runners-up in the latter.
He also played Varsity Cup rugby for Template:Rut UP Tuks in their title-winning 2013 season, as well as in 2014. He was initially named in a Varsity Cup Dream Team at the conclusion of the 2015 Varsity Cup tournament, but withdrew and was replaced by Elandré Huggett.[3]
Blue Bulls
Visagie's senior debut came during the 2013 Vodacom Cup competition, coming on as a substitute against the Template:Rut Pumas.[4] He made a further two appearances in that competition. He also made his Currie Cup during the same season, when he came on as a substitute against the Template:Rut Golden Lions at Template:Rus Ellis Park Stadium.
His first start in a first class match came in the Template:Rut Blue Bulls' 2014 Vodacom Cup match against the Template:Rut Pumas.[4]
He was also included in the Template:Rut Bulls training squad prior to the 2014 Super Rugby season,[5] but wasn't included in the final squad.
Gloucester Rugby
In November 2018, he joined Gloucester on loan until January 2019.[6] He made seven appearances during this spell, scoring three tries.
References
- ^ "Squad: Vodacom Blue Bulls XV". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ "SA Rugby Player Profile – Jaco Visagie". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Varsity Cup XV 24–31 South Africa U/20". South African Rugby Union. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ^ a b "SA Rugby Match Centre – Steval Pumas 22–20 Vodacom Blue Bulls". South African Rugby Union. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ^ "Bulls name 2014 Super Rugby training squad". RugbyWeek. 18 November 2013. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ "Vermeulen, Specman and Hendricks amongst new faces in Vodacom Bulls wider training squad" (Press release). Bulls. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.