David Pocock
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| Full name | David Pocock | ||
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| Date of birth | 23 April 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Gweru, Zimbabwe | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 103 kg (16 st 3 lb; 227 lb) | ||
| School | Anglican Church Grammar School | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Current status | |||
| Position(s) | Openside Flanker, Number Eight | ||
| Current team | Brumbies | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | Openside Flanker, Number Eight | ||
| Professional / senior clubs | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2016− | Panasonic Wild Knights | 4 | (5) |
| correct as of 15 January 2017. | |||
| Super Rugby | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2006–12 2013– |
Force Brumbies |
69 30 |
(40) (50) |
| Current local club | Brumbies | ||
| correct as of 22 July 2016. | |||
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2008– | Australia | 65 | (35) |
| correct as of 26 November 2016. | |||
David Pocock (born 23 April 1988) is an Australian rugby union player. He is an openside flanker, vice captain of the Brumbies.
Pocock grew up in Zimbabwe and migrated with his family to Brisbane, Australia in 2002.
He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane. In 2005, he played in the school's undefeated premiership-winning 1st XV alongside future Wallabies teammate Quade Cooper. That same year, he was selected to play in the Australian Schoolboys national rugby union team, the highest level of schoolboy rugby in Australia.
In between the Force's UK tour and the Wallabies 2008 Spring Tour he climbed Mt Kilimanjaro (the tallest mountain in Africa) with one of his friends, Morgan Clarke. At the end of 2010, he and his best friend Emma held a commitment ceremony before family and friends in Perth; they have pledged to refuse to enter into marriage until it is open to same-sex couples in Australia. David and his friend Luke O’Keefe run a not-for-profit organisation, Eightytwenty Vision, which has the aim of helping the less fortunate people of Zimbabwe.
In November 2014, Pocock was charged over a protest against a coal mine in New South Wales.
Pocock played for the Force, where he made his debut in 2006 against the Sharks in Durban. Pocock made appearances for Australian Schoolboys and Australia A in the 2007 IRB Pacific Nations Cup, earning man of the match multiple times in the tournament. He then made his Australian debut as a substitute against The Barbarians on 3 December 2008.
Pocock made his Wallabies debut in Hong Kong in late 2008, and then played against Italy and The Barbarians on the Wallabies spring tour. That same year he also captained the Australian Under 20s at the Junior World Championships in Wales, and was then awarded the Emirates Western Force captaincy for the development tour of England.
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