Kurt-Lee Arendse
| Date of birth | 17 June 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Paulus Joubert Secondary School, Paarl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of the Western Cape | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kurt-Lee Arendse (born 17 June 1996) is a South African rugby sevens player for the South Africa national team, where his regular position is a back, and a rugby union player for the Bulls in Super Rugby.
He attended Paulus Joubert Secondary School in Paarl, where he earned a selection into the Boland Cavaliers' sevens team that competed at the 2014 SARU Under-18 Sevens competition.[1] He progressed through the youth ranks in rugby union, playing in several national junior competitions — he played for Western Province U19 in the 2015 Under-19 Provincial Championship, for Boland U20 in the 2016 Under-20 Provincial Championship and for Western Province U21 in the 2017 Under-21 Provincial Championship.
He was named as the MVP at the 2018 Varsity Cup Sevens tournament,[2] and joined the South African Rugby Sevens Academy in December 2018.[2] After playing for UWC in the 2019 Varsity Cup, Arendse was named in the Blitzboks squad for the Vancouver Sevens,[3] and he made his debut in their 31–12 Cup semi-final victory over Fiji.[4] He was an unused replacement in the final,[5] which South Africa won, beating France 21–12.
In 2020, with no seven tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he joined the Pretoria Bulls franchise where he immediately made an impact.[6]
References[]
- ^ "WP U18 Sevens Champs". Rugby365. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Player Profiles : Kurt-Lee Arendse". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Davids and Arendse to join Blitzboks in Vancouver" (Press release). South African Rugby Union. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Match Centre: Vancouver, Cup Semi Finals, Match 39". World Rugby. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "Match Centre: Vancouver, Cup Final, Match 45". World Rugby. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ SA Rugbymag
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- Kurt-Lee Arendse at Springboks.rugby
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