Stephen Hoiles
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| Full name | Stephen Alan Hoiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 13 October 1981 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 102 kg (16 st 1 lb; 225 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Waverley College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Commentator Head coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Hoiles (born 13 October 1981) is an Australian rugby union coach and former player. Currently, he is the head coach of Major League Rugby team RFC Los Angeles.[1] He was previously head coach at Randwick,[2] and the LA Giltinis, winning a Major League Rugby championship in the team's inaugural season.
He played Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs and the ACT Brumbies. He also represented the Australia national rugby union team.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Hoiles joined the Coogee Seahorses Juniors at age six, played his rugby on Saturdays and league on Sundays with the Coogee Wombats. He attended Sydney’s Waverley College and in 1999 played in the 1st XV.[3]
Playing career
[edit | edit source]After graduation from high school Hoiles, joined the Randwick club and in 2001 he was picked to play for the Australian Men’s 7s team.[3] In 2004, he gained a full-time contract with the NSW Waratahs.[3]
Hoiles represented the Wallabies for the first time in 2004 at the age of 22 in the Test match against Scotland.[3] In 2004, Hoiles was part of the Randwick team that won the Sydney club championship.[4]
He played over 100 first grade games for his club side Randwick as well as over 100 Super Rugby games for the NSW Waratahs and the ACT Brumbies where he was captained for 3 seasons.[citation needed] His professional playing career was put on hold for three and a half seasons with a long term achilles injury. During this time, Hoiles travelled to Sweden to have his foot operated on. This surgery allowed Hoiles to return to professional rugby[citation needed] where he joined the NSW Waratahs and was a starting member of the Super Rugby Championship winning team in 2014.
Post playing career
[edit | edit source]Having retired from playing in 2015, Hoiles began his role as a rugby commentator and TV presenter with Fox Sports.[citation needed] In 2018, Hoiles began coaching professionally where he was the assistant coach of the Australia national rugby sevens team.[5]
In October 2022, Hoiles announced he would no longer continue as head coach of LA Giltinis and would be returning to Australia to coach Randwick for the 2023 season.[6]
In May 2024, Hoiles announced he would be standing down as head coach of Randwick.[7]
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External links
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- Randwick profile
- 1981 births
- Australian rugby union coaches
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- ACT Brumbies players
- New South Wales Waratahs players
- Living people
- Rugby union number eights
- Rugby union flankers
- Rugby union players from Sydney
- Male rugby sevens players
- New South Wales Country Eagles players
- Barbarian F.C. players
- People educated at Waverley College
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Major League Rugby coaches
- Australian rugby union commentators