Roscko Speckman

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Roscko Speckman
Personal information
Full name Roscko Shane Speckman
Born (1989-04-28) 28 April 1989 (age 35)
Grahamstown
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight 85 kg (13 st 5 lb)[1]
School(s) attended Mary Waters High School,
Grahamstown
Club information
Playing position Winger
Current club S.A. Sevens
Youth career
2007–08 Eastern Province Kings
2009–10 Sharks
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Pts)
2010–12 Sharks (Currie Cup) 14 (25)
2013–15 Pumas 45 (140)
Representative team(s)
2013 South Africa President's XV 3 (5)
2014– S.A. Sevens ()

* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 9 October 2015.
† Appearances (Points).

‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 17 June 2013.

Roscko Shane Speckman [note 1] is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the South Africa Sevens team.[1] His usual position is winger.

Career

Youth

At youth level, he played at the 2007 U18 Academy Week for Eastern Province Country Districts and then for the Mighty Elephants (now Eastern Province Kings) U19 team in the 2008 U19 Currie Cup competition.

In 2009, he moved to the Sharks, where he played in their U19 team.

Sharks

He made his debut in the 2010 Vodacom Cup quarter final game against Griquas.[6] He was a first choice player in the U21 team that year, scoring three tries. The following season, he scored four tries in five appearances in the 2011 Vodacom Cup and made another five appearances in the 2012 Vodacom Cup.

Pumas

He joined the Pumas for the 2013 season.[7]

He was a member of the Pumas side that won the Vodacom Cup for the first time in 2015, beating Western Province 24–7 in the final.[8] His only appearance during the season came in the final after returning from South Africa Sevens duty.[9]

Representative rugby

In 2013, he was included in a South Africa President's XV team that played in the 2013 IRB Tbilisi Cup[10] and won the tournament after winning all three matches.[11]

He was also called into an S.A. Sevens training squad in 2013[12] and was included in the Sevens squad for the USA leg of the 2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series.[13]

Notes

  1. There are different spellings of Speckman's name in use. The South African Rugby Union website lists his name as Rosko Specman,[1] which is also used during television coverage, but several other website lists his name as Roscko Speckman. Both variants yield several search results from reliable sources.[2][3] According to the player's former twitter account,[4] the spelling is Rosco Speckman. However, he confirmed in an interview in 2016 that his preferred spelling of his name is Roscko Speckman.[5]

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