Richie McCaw Biography

Full Name	Richie McCaw
Date of birth	31 December 1980
Age	42 years
Profession	Rugby Player
Height	1.87m
Merital status	Married
Place of Birth	Oamaru, New Zealand

Richie McCaw Facts & Biography
The Hakataramea Valley farm where McCaw grew up is where he first started playing rugby for the Kurow Rugby Club’s youth team. He was “number eight” in the first XV at Otago Boys’ High School in Dunedin. (the top-level team). In 1999, he graduated and signed on with the Christchurch Football Club. His studies in agricultural science at Lincoln University in Christchurch were interrupted when he was chosen to play for the New Zealand Under-19 team in the 1999 World Under-19 Rugby Tournament, which New Zealand won.

Career

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McCaw was chosen for the New Zealand Under-21 team in 2000, leading them as captain. At the 2001 Steinlager Rugby Awards, he was voted the Under-21 Player of the Year. In 2000, he made his National Provincial Championship (NPC) debut for Canterbury, winning Division One Player of the Year honors.

For Canterbury, McCaw made 34 appearances, helping the team win the NPC championship in 2004. He made his Super Rugby debut in 2001 for the Crusaders (previously the Canterbury Crusaders), the major professional rugby league in the Southern Hemisphere. Through 2015, he made 145 appearances for the Crusaders and helped the group win four Super Rugby championships, three of them while serving as captain.

Other

McCaw played the first of his 148 Tests for the All Blacks against Ireland in Dublin in 2001. He played in his 100th Test during New Zealand’s 2011 Rugby Union World Cup game against France, becoming the first All Black to do so. McCaw led the All Blacks in a record 110 Tests after being nominated captain against Wales in 2004 and granted the position permanently in 2006. During McCaw’s time in the team, New Zealand achieved enormous success, winning 131 games (again, a world record), losing only 15 games, and drawing just two.

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The team won two Rugby Union World Cups, the Bledisloe Cup between New Zealand and Australia, the Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations competition), and seven times in total during his captaincy. (2011 and 2015, both under his captaincy). McCaw ended his rugby career following the 2015 World Cup.

The list of McCaw’s professional honors is extensive. In 2001, he received the Newcomer of the Year award from the International Rugby Board (later World Rugby), and in 2006, 2009, and 2010, he received the Player of the Year honor. In addition, he received the Halberg Award for New Zealand Sportsman of the Year twice, and the Kelvin R. Tremain Memorial Trophy four times (in 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012) as New Zealand Player of the Year. (2010 and 2011).

Off the field of play, McCaw was well known for his support of organizations like the iSport Foundation and Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand. He also participated in fund-raising efforts in the wake of the disastrous 2010–2011 earthquakes in Christchurch.

McCaw was a certified pilot, following in the footsteps of his grandpa, a fighter pilot in World War II. He became the Order of New Zealand’s youngest member ever in 2015, and the following year he was voted New Zealander of the Year. Richie McCaw: The Open Side (2012), his book, was also released under the title The Real McCaw: The book. A biographical documentary titled Chasing Great was released in 2016.