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| Born | Peter Hewat (1978-03-17)17 March 1978 (age 47) Inverell, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Hewat (born 17 March 1978)[1] is anAustralianrugby union coach and former player, currently working as attack and backs coach atLeicester Tigers in England'sPremiership Rugby.[2] He has previously coached inJapan'sTop League withBlack Rams Tokyo and in Australia with theACT Brumbies. In his playing career he played for theNSW Waratahs andCentral Coast Rays in Australia, forLondon Irish in England's Premiership andSuntory Sungoliath in Japan.
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Originally fromInverell in north-west NSW, Hewat is a product ofBrisbane's renowned Rugby nursery,Nudgee College. In spite of this, he did not play his first game until the age of 14. A natural athlete, within a year he was playing in the first XV alongside formerQueensland RedElton Flatley. Hewat also showed great potential as a junior cricketer ultimately representing Australia at the schoolboy level. Hewat then had a short yet successful stint in the Brisbane 1st grade club competition before he began to concentrate on rugby more seriously. In 2003, Hewat represented the Potoroo's 7 A Side Rugby Team where he won player of the tournament at the prestigiousDarwin Hottest Sevens. He moved on to Australian U21 duties in 1998, before representing Australia at Sevens from 2001 to 2003.
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2005 can only be described as a watershed year in the career of Hewat. Three weeks' shy of his 27th birthday he made his Waratahs debut in round one of2005 Super 12 againstChiefs, with his breakout match coming in round three scoring 20 points against theCats.[3] The leading Super 12 point scorer in his debut year, his 10 tries brokeScott Staniforth's Waratah record for tries in a season. He also smashedMatthew Burke's NSW record for points in a season, finishing with 243 points from 17 games during 2005.[3]Almost unbelievably, Hewat came into 2005 with just two state caps and five points to his name. He missed just one match for the season, when he was rested from the Waratahs clash with theRomanian Barbarians on the Gulf Air development tour of Eastern Europe.[citation needed] On top of this, Hewat played two games for Australia A and captainedManly to within one win of theTooheys New Cup Grand Final.
In the 2006 game against theBlues in round seven of theSuper 14, Hewat moved on to second on the all-time pointscorers list for the Waratahs,[citation needed] his 28-point haul in the match seeing him move on to 359 points to surpassMarty Roebuck who held the spot with 337 points. Only Matt Burke (1147) has scored more points for New South Wales.[citation needed] In the same match, he also equalled Burke's record for scoring 100 season points in seven Super matches. In round eight against theCheetahs, Hewat's 27 point haul saw him surpass 300 Super points. Two rounds later, against theBrumbies, Hewat surpassed the 400 point mark for NSW.mmHewat's haul of points in the round 14 match vHurricanes atSydney Football Stadium saw him register 177 points for the season – establishing a record for the most Super Rugby points in a season. Hewat's outstanding form in the 2006 Tooheys New Cup saw him awarded the Ken Catchpole Medal for 2006.[citation needed] The telling impact Hewat can have on a match was again evident when he came on as a replacement in the APC match against theWestern Force. He came on as a replacement in the second half and scored a quick-fire 17 points in the space of 20 minutes, equalling the record for the most points in a match by a replacement, previously set byTim Kelaher.[citation needed]
After the end of the 2007 S14 season it was leaked to the press, and Hewat himself during a speakerphone incident with Lote Tuqiri, that he was not in the reckoning for a Wallaby position and will not be included in the squad.[4] This left Hewat disillusioned and resulted in his decision to consider lucrative offers from overseas. On 27 July 2007, it was confirmed byNSWRU and Hewat that they had worked out a release so he could continue playing rugby over in Europe forLondon Irish.[5]
In Hewat's second season with Irish they made the2009 Premiership Rugby Final, with Hewat scoring an early drop goal after just 20 seconds in Irish's 10–9 defeat.[6] On 12 April 2010, it was confirmed that Hewat was leaving London Irish to play in Japan.[7]
After working withEddie Jones atSuntory Sungoliath Hewat was inspired to go into coaching, starting as backs coach at Suntory.[3] This was where he first metDan McKellar, with whom he would work at theACT Brumbies from 2017 to 2020,.[3] After leaving the Brumbies Hewat joined Tokyo Black Rams as backs coach, before becoming head coach for three seasons. In June 2024, Hewat linked up withMichael Cheika after joiningLeicester Tigers as attack and backs coach.[2]
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