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Nickname | Chicko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Goroka, Papua New Guinea |
11 November 1990 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (13 st 3 lb; 185 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Segeyaro (born 11 November 1990) is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian professional rugby league player who is currently contracted to the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League. His main position is at hooker. He has played internationally both for Papua New Guinea and against it as part of the Prime Minister's XIII and has played for the North Queensland Cowboys in 2011 and 2012.
Born in Papua New Guinea, Segeyaro moved to Cairns, Queensland with his mother at the age of seven. After playing junior football for the Cairns Ivanhoes club, Segeyaro moved to the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2007. After being cut from the Souths' roster due to disciplinary issues, he returned to North Queensland to play for the Cowboys. Segeyaro was captain of the Cowboys' Toyota Cup team in 2010 and played for the Northern Pride in the Queensland Cup. Segeyaro was selected in the Junior Kangaroos at the end of the 2010 season.
Segeyaro broke into the Cowboys NRL squad in 2011 after undergoing a shoulder reconstruction at the end of the previous season. Segeyaro made his NRL debut in Round 3 against the Melbourne Storm playing off the interchange bench in the Cowboys 34-6 win at 1300SMILES Stadium. In Round 15 against the New Zealand Warriors, Segeyaro scored his first NRL career try in Cowboys 30-10 win at 1300SMILES Stadium. Segeyaro made his first start at hooker in the Cowboys 42-8 Qualifying Finals loss to the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles at SFS. Segeyaro went on to appear in 19 matches and score 5 tries for the Cowboys the 2012 NRL season. At the end of the season he made his debut for Papua New Guinea in a 36–22 defeat to the Australian Prime Minister's XIII.