| Date of birth | (1996-01-13)13 January 1996 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Ipswich, Queensland,Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 115 kg (18 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Edmund's College, Ipswich Anglican Church Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harley Fox (born 13 January 1996) is an Australianrugby union player. He has played in theblindside flanker and number 8 positions for theQueensland Reds andMelbourne Rebels in theSuper Rugby competitions[1] and for Irish clubConnacht in the EuropeanUnited Rugby Championship competition.[2]
Fox grew up in Ipswich, Queensland playingrugby league for the local Brothers club as a junior and attending primary school at Raceview State School. Fox represented Queensland in both rugby league and rugby union at under 16 and under 18 age levels.[3]
Fox attendedSt Edmund’s College in Ipswich, where he played a variety of sports, including cricket and baseball. Fox transferred toAnglican Church Grammar School inBrisbane to take up a rugby union scholarship, where he was coached and mentored by future Queensland Reds under 20s coach Jason Gilmore.[3] In September 2014, he was named captain of the Australian Schoolboys team, with the rapidity of his success in switching codes being described as "remarkable".[4][5] He led the Australian Schholboys team on tour toWellington,New Zealand in September and October 2014,[5] which featured a 50–15 win over the Fiji Schoolboys team.[3]
Fox received a contract for theQueensland Reds and theAustralian Rugby Union under-20 program for the 2015 season.[3] He was named in the Queensland under-20 representative squad for the national championships in March 2015.[6]
In October 2015, Fox was signed by theMelbourne Rebels to their extended squad for the2016 Super Rugby season.[7]
In September 2017, IrishPro14 sideConnacht announced that Fox would be joining its three-year academy program ahead of the 2017–18 season.[8] Fox was not an Irish national, but having signed ahead of changes to theWorld Rugby regulations around international qualification, which come into effect in the 2018–19 season, Fox would be eligible to represent Ireland after three years of residency.[9]
| Season | Team | Games | Starts | Sub | Mins | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drops | Points | Yel | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Rebels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | Rebels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |