Kamaishi Seawaves

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Rugby team
Kamaishi Seawaves
日本製鉄釜石シーウェイブス
Full nameKamaishi Seawaves Rugby Football Club
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Founded2001
RegionIwate Prefecture, Tōhoku
Ground(s)Kamaishi City Stadium
Coach(es)Yasuo Suda
League(s)Japan Rugby League One, Division Two
20225th
Official website
www.kamaishi-seawaves.com

Kamaishi Seawaves is a Rugby union football club in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 2001.[1]

At its inception, it was known as Nippon Steel Corporation Kamaishi.[2]

Current squad

The Kamaishi Seawaves squad for the 2023-24 season is:[3]

Kamaishi Seawaves squad

Props

  • Japan Yusuke Yamada
  • Japan Soichiro Inada
  • New Zealand Flyn Yates
  • Japan Shodai Osada
  • Japan Taiki Noguchi
  • Japan Makoto Somazawa
  • Japan Atsushi Suzuki
  • Japan Takuya Takahashi
  • Japan Tomoyoshi Oikawa
  • Japan Ryota Tsukada
  • Japan Sei Matsuyama REP
  • Japan Riku Takahashi REP


Hookers

  • Japan Daiki Ito
  • Japan Suguru Aoyaki
  • Japan Naoki Ouno
  • Japan Yuki Go

Locks

  • Japan Dallas Tatana
  • Japan Shoji Misaki
  • South Africa Sergio Moreira
  • New Zealand Hamish Dalzell
  • Japan Sotaro Takahashi
  • Japan Ryunosuke Yamada
  • Samoa Ben Nee-Nee
  • Japan Yuga Suzuki REP

Flankers

  • Japan Ryota Kono
  • Japan Daisuke Musha
  • Japan Taichi Takahashi
  • New Zealand Sam Henwood
  • Japan Kohei Ishigaki

No8s

  • Fiji Seta Koroitamana


Scrum-halves

  • Japan Atsushi Minami
  • Japan Yohei Murakami
  • Japan Takumi Tokairin
  • Japan Kotaro Furukawa

Fly-halves

  • Japan Ryoma Nakamura
  • South Africa Joshua Stander
  • Japan Kazushi Ochi

Centres

  • Japan Kaito Funaki
  • Japan Katsuto Hatanaka
  • Japan Osuka-lloyd Murata
  • New Zealand Darius Thomas
  • South Africa Gerdus van der Walt
  • Tonga Mosese Tonga*
  • Japan Kaisei Takai REP

Wingers

  • Japan Syo Kataoka
  • Japan Ryuji Abe
  • Japan Kodai Ono(c)
  • Japan Taisei Fukkoshi
  • Japan Jamie Henry

Fullbacks

  • Japan Ryo Kikkawa
  • New Zealand Cameron Bailey
  • Japan Ken Chiba
  • Japan Daiki Kon REP

Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Notable players

The following former Kamaishi Seawaves players became Japanese internationals:[4]

  • Masayoshi Ito
  • Koji Miyata
  • Osamu Koyabu
  • Toru Wada
  • Kazuo Muraguchi
  • Takeshi Hatakeyama
  • Akemi Namura
  • Ichiro Kobayashi
  • Kiyoshi Segawa
  • Jiro Ishiyama
  • Yuji Matsuo
  • Shigetaka Mori
  • Hideo Kobayashi
  • Koji Horaguchi
  • Yoshihiko Sakuraba
  • Michihito Chida

References

  1. ^ "Overview of Kamaishi City". Kamaishi City Council. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  2. ^ Nakagawa, Fumiyuki (23 May 2011). "Rugby squad cheers up quake-hit Kamaishi". Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Kamaishi Seawaves Members" (in Japanese). Kamaishi Seawaves. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Une grande équipe historique japonaise: Kamaishi Seawaves". Japon Rugby (in French). Retrieved 17 September 2017.

External links

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Kamaishi Seawaves – current squad
Forwards
  • Sam Henwood
  • Soichiro Inada
  • Daiki Ito
  • Ryota Kono
  • Seta Koroitamana
  • Kota Kumamoto
  • Shoji Misaki
  • Sergio Moreira
  • Daisuke Musha
  • Yuta Nakano
  • Ben Nee-Nee
  • Toshihiro Nishii
  • Taiki Noguchi
  • Naoki Ono
  • Shohei Osada
  • Makoto Somazawa
  • Atsushi Suzuki
  • Takuya Takahashi
  • Sotaro Takahashi
  • Dallas Tatana
  • Shun Terawaki
  • Ryota Tsukada
  • Ryunosuke Yamada
  • Tatsuji Yoshida
Backs
  • Ryuji Abe
  • Cameron Bailey
  • Ken Chiba
  • Taisei Fukikoshi
  • Shuta Fukushi
  • Kaito Funaki
  • Katsuto Hatamaka
  • Kohei Ishigaki
  • Ryo Kataoka
  • Osuka Lloyd-Murata
  • Atsushi Minami
  • Yohei Murakami
  • Ryoma Nakamura
  • Kodai Ono
  • Gen Sasaki
  • Yujiro Sasaki
  • Hikaru Shimoyama
  • Joshua Stander
  • Yuki Sugahara
  • Darius Thomas
  • Takumi Tokairin
  • Gerdus van der Walt
Coach
  • Yasuo Suda