Caylib Oosthuizen
Full name | Caylib Rees Oosthuizen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1 September 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 116 kg (18 st 4 lb; 256 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Oudtshoorn High | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of Johannesburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caylib Rees Oosthuizen (born 1 September 1989 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a rugby union player who plays as a loosehead prop for Asia Pacific Dragons in Global Rapid Rugby. He previously played for Template:Rut Western Province in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge.
Career
Oosthuizen began his senior career in Johannesburg with the Template:Rut Lions, starting in his first 6 Super Rugby games. He was subsequently invited to one of the Springboks preliminary training camps. He joined the Template:Rut Free State Cheetahs in 2013 and represented them in the Super Rugby Vodacom Cup and Currie Cup competitions.[1][2]
In 2013, he was included in the Template:Rut Cheetahs squad for the 2013 Super Rugby season.[3] Again included in 2014,[4] by starting in a 21–20 defeat to the Template:Rut Lions in Bloemfontein. He started in 13 of the 16 super rugby games that year. [5][6]
Oosthuizen previously represented the University of Johannesburg in the 2011 Varsity Cup where he started all 8 of his sides' matches.[7]
International
Oosthuizen represented South Africa under 20 in the 2009 IRB Junior World Championship in Japan.[8]
References
- ^ "SA Rugby Player Profile – Caylib Oosthuizen". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "Cheetahs sign Lions prop". Sport 24. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Sharks 6–12 Cheetahs". South African Rugby Union. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "Toyota Cheetahs kondig groep aan vir 2014 Vodacom SupeRugby seisoen" (Press release) (in Afrikaans). Cheetahs. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Match Centre: Cheetahs v Lions". SANZAR. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Toyota Cheetahs 20–21 Lions". South African Rugby Union. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "UJ steals the show in Varsity Cup opening match". UJ. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- ^ "Caylib Oosthuizen IRB JWC 2009 Player Profile". IRB. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
External links
- 1989 births
- Living people
- South African rugby union players
- Golden Lions players
- Lions (Super Rugby) players
- Free State Cheetahs players
- Cheetahs (rugby union) players
- Rugby union props
- Sportspeople from Cape Town
- University of Johannesburg alumni
- South Africa Under-20 international rugby union players
- South African rugby union biography stubs