Bernado Botha
Full name | Bernado Carl Botha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 4 July 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Oudtshoorn, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 92 kg (14 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Hoërskool Florida, Roodepoort | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of Johannesburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bernado Carl Botha (born Oudtshoorn) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the Template:Rut Pumas.[1] He has been playing first class rugby since 2009 and was a regular member of the South Africa Sevens team between 2010 and 2013. His regular position is winger or fulback.
4 July 1988 inCareer
Youth and Varsity rugby
Botha represented South Western Districts at the 2004 Under-16 Grant Khomo Week. He then moved to Gauteng and was included in the Template:Rut Golden Lions squad for the 2006 Under-18 Craven Week tournament. The following year, he received a call-up to the South African Under-19 squad for the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship in Ireland.
He continued to represent the Template:Rut Golden Lions at youth level, playing for their Under-19s in national championships in 2007 and for the Under-21s in 2008 and 2009. He also played for Template:Rut UJ in the 2008 and 2010 Varsity Cup competitions, scoring four tries in eight appearances.
Senior career
Botha was included in the Template:Rut Golden Lions squad for the 2008 Vodacom Cup competition,[2] but failed to make an appearance, despite being named as a substitute for their match against the Template:Rut Natal Wildebeest.[3]
Once again named in their Vodacom Cup squad in 2009, Botha duly made his first class debut by starting in their match against the Template:Rut Pumas in Randfontein.[4] He made seven starts in total and weighed in with four tries during that tournament.
Following two more appearances in the 2010 Vodacom Cup, Botha was then included in the Template:Rut Lions squad for the 2010 Super 14 season. He made two substitute appearances, against the Template:Rut Force in Johannesburg[5] and against the Template:Rut Cheetahs in Welkom.[6]
Sevens rugby
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In 2010, Botha joined the South African Sevens squad[7] and appeared in the Dubai and South African legs of the 2010–11 IRB Sevens World Series. In October 2011, he signed a two-year deal with the South African Rugby Union to represent the sevens side[8] and became a regular for them in the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons of the IRB Sevens World Series.
Griffons
At the conclusion of the 2012–13 IRB Sevens World Series, Botha made a return to fifteens rugby and made five appearances for Welkom-based side Template:Rut Griffons during the 2013 Currie Cup First Division.
Pumas
He then joined the Template:Rut Pumas prior to the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition. He was a member of the Pumas side that won the Vodacom Cup for the first time in 2015, beating Template:Rut Western Province 24–7 in the final.[9] Botha made eight appearances during the season.
References
- ^ "SA Rugby Player Profile – Bernado Botha". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Squad – Golden Lions : 2008 Vodacom Cup". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Wildebeest 17–10 Golden Lions". South African Rugby Union. 29 March 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Golden Lions 34–47 Pumas". South African Rugby Union. 7 March 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Auto & General Lions 12–33 Western Force". South African Rugby Union. 1 May 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ^ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Vodacom Cheetahs 59–10 Auto & General Lions". South African Rugby Union. 15 May 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ^ "New faces to join Blitzbokke". blitzbokke.com. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "BlitzBokke gain three promising players". blitzbokke.com. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "Steval Pumas first-time Vodacom Cup champions – Final Review". South African Rugby Union. 31 May 2015. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- South African rugby union players
- Living people
- 1988 births
- People from Oudtshoorn
- Golden Lions players
- Griffons (rugby team) players
- Lions (Super Rugby) players
- Pumas (rugby team) players
- South Africa international rugby sevens players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for South Africa
- Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa