Scott Sio

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Scott Sio
File:Scott Sio 2017 (cropped).jpg
BornScott Sio
(1991-10-16) 16 October 1991 (age 34)
Height187 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight116 kg (256 lb; 18 st 4 lb)
Notable relativeDavid Sio (father)
Rugby union career
Position Loosehead Prop
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Northern Suburbs
University of Canberra Vikings
North Harbour Rays
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2016−2022 Canberra Vikings 0 (0)
2022– Exeter Chiefs 39 (15)
Correct as of 5 April 2023
Super Rugby
Years Team Apps (Points)
2012–2022 ACT Brumbies 143 (25)
Correct as of 7 June 2022
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2011 Australia U20 6 (5)
2013– Australia 74 (5)
Correct as of 19 June 2022
Medal record
Men's rugby union
Representing File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Rugby World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2015 England Squad

Scott Sio (born 16 October 1991) is an Australian rugby union player who plays for the Exeter Chiefs in the Premiership Rugby and is a former coach at Devon club Topsham RFC. His playing position is prop. He made his Brumbies debut during the 2012 Super Rugby season against the Sharks in Canberra.

Sio was educated at Sydney's Trinity Grammar School, where he achieved the roles of Captain of Rugby and School Vice-Captain in 2009.[citation needed] Later that year, he represented NSW Schoolboys, Australia A Schoolboys and Australian Schoolboys.[citation needed]

Sio represented Australia under 20 at the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship.[2]

Sio was named in the Wallabies 31-man Squad to take on the British and Irish Lions in their three test series. Despite being named in the squad, he was allowed to play in the Brumbies game against the Lions, performing admirably, to become the first Australian provincial side to defeat the Lions in 42 years.[citation needed]

Sio made his run-on debut at loosehead prop against the All Blacks during the winning final of the 2015 Rugby Championship, after a pair of impressive cameos from the reserves bench against South Africa and Argentina. Sio was named in the Wallabies 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he supplanted most-capped Wallabies prop James Slipper as the Wallabies first choice loosehead. He currently is now a regular in the Wallabies starting XV at loosehead prop.[citation needed]

He is son of the former Samoan prop David Sio, who played in the 1991 Rugby World Cup (Samoa played against Scotland in that tournament at the time of Scott's birth and he was named in recognition of the occasion)[3] and also the cousin of up and coming player Fereti Sa'aga who has also represented Australia on the Junior stage.

On 17 August 2022, Sio joined Exeter Chiefs in the Premiership Rugby on a long-term deal from the 2022-23 season.[4]

Super Rugby statistics

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As of 22 July 2016[5]
Season Team Games Starts Sub Mins Tries Cons Pens Drops Points Yel Red
2012 Brumbies 4 0 4 92 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2013 Brumbies 18 12 6 1050 1 0 0 0 5 1 0
2014 Brumbies 15 15 0 994 1 0 0 0 5 0 0
2015 Brumbies 13 13 0 844 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2016 Brumbies 15 13 2 781 1 0 0 0 5 0 0
Total 65 53 12 3761 3 0 0 0 15 1 0

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