Roelof Smit

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Roelof Smit
Personal information
Full name	Roelof Andries Smit
Born	(1993-01-11) 11 January 1993 Queenstown, South Africa
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	90 kg (14 st 2 lb)
School(s) attended	Hangklip High School
Club information
Playing position	Flanker
Current club	Blue Bulls
Youth career
2009–10	Border Bulldogs
2011–	Blue Bulls
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Pts)^†
2013–	Blue Bulls	3	(10)
Representative team(s)^‡
2013–	S.A. Under-20	3	(5)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 20 June 2013. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 20 June 2013.

Roelof Smit (born 11 January 1993 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the Blue Bulls.^[1]^[2] His regular position is flanker.

Career

Youth

He represented the Border Bulldogs at the 2009 Under-16 Grant Khomo Week and at the 2010 Under-18 Craven Week. He then joined Pretoria-based team the Blue Bulls and represented them in the Craven Week competition in 2011. In 2012, he was a member of the Blue Bulls teams that finished runners-up in the 2012 Under-19 Currie Cup, making ten starts and scoring three tries.

Blue Bulls

He made his senior debut for the Blue Bulls during the 2013 Vodacom Cup, when he came on as a substitute against the Pumas.^[3] A further two appearances followed that season.

In 2013, he signed a contract extension to keep him at the Blue Bulls until 2015.^[4]

Representative rugby

He was included in the S.A. Under-20 squad for the 2013 IRB Junior World Championship.^[5]

References

↑ "SARU Player Profile Roelof Smit". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
↑ "Scoresway Player Profile Roelof Smit". Scoresway. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
↑ "Vodacom Blue Bulls vs Steval Pumas". South African Rugby Union. 16 March 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
↑ "Young stars extend Bulls stay". Sport24. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
↑ "Steenkamp leads powerful SA U20 JWC squad". South African Rugby Union. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.

Squads

v t e Blue Bulls – 2013 Vodacom Cup

Forwards	Shaun Adendorff Louis Albertse Jean Cook Jacques du Plessis Dean Greyling Kurt Haupt Cornell Hess Jannes Kirsten Wiaan Liebenberg Bongi Mbonambi Jacques Potgieter Stephan Pretorius Basil Short Roelof Smit Wilhelm Steenkamp Dawie Steyn Jason Thomas Sidney Tobias Nardus van der Walt Schalk van Heerden Hencus van Wyk Jacques Verwey Callie Visagie Jaco Visagie Willie Wepener Paul Willemse Mike Williams Nqubeko Zulu Did not play: Christiaan de Bruin Gerrit Engelbrecht Justin Forwood Christoph Gouws Marvin Orie Jono Ross Juan Schoeman Dennis Visser

Backs	Ulrich Beyers Clayton Blommetjies Christopher Bosch Willie du Plessis Travis Ismaiel Lohan Jacobs Rohan Janse van Rensburg Tony Jantjies Piet Lindeque Kobus Marais Sampie Mastriet Burger Odendaal Rudy Paige Handré Pollard Courtnall Skosan Ruan Snyman Heinrich Steyl Jade Stighling Dries Swanepoel Emile Temperman Francois Tredoux Damian van Wyk Francois Venter Vainon Willis Did not play: Jesse Kriel William Small-Smith Rudi van Rooyen

Coach	Nollis Marais

Persondata
Name	Smit, Roelof
Alternative names
Short description	South African rugby player
Date of birth	11 January 1993
Place of birth	Queenstown, South Africa
Date of death
Place of death

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