Lee Oudenryn
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 8 February 1970 Wee Waa, New South Wales | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 187 cm | |||||
| Weight | 90 kg | |||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1992–95 | Parramatta Eels | 50 | 18 | 37 | 0 | 146 |
| 1996 | Gold Coast Seagulls | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 38 |
| 1997–00 | Auckland Warriors | 61 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 94 |
| 2001 | Nth. Qld. Cowboys | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 132 | 49 | 41 | 0 | 278 | |
| Source: RLP | ||||||
Lee Oudenryn (born 8 February 1970 in Wee Waa, New South Wales) is a retired Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. His outstanding speed saw him play mostly on the Wing, though he also played a few games at Fullback.
Career
A former junior soccer player, Lee Oudenryn switched to rugby league in the early 1990s and made his first grade début on the wing for the Parramatta Eels in 1992 against Eastern Suburbs at the Sydney Football Stadium. He went on to play 19 games and score 8 tries in his debut season.
After spending four seasons at Parramatta where he scored 146 points (18 tries, 37 goals) in 50 games, he signed to play with the Gold Coast Chargers in 1996. After a single season with the Chargers, Oudenryn moved to play with the Auckland Warriors in the 1997 Super League season, and stayed with the club until the end of the 2000 NRL season.
Oudenryn then signed with the North Queensland Cowboys, spending 2001 in Townsville before retiring at the end of the season at the age of 30.
Fastest Player
A noted speedster, Oudenryn gained a reputation as the fastest player in rugby league when he defeated Great Britain winger Martin Offiah, generally regarded at the time to the fastest player, by half a metre in a 100 metre sprint race[1] prior to the Parramatta vs Great Britain match played at Parramatta Stadium during the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australasia (which Parramatta won 22-16).[2]
After the race, unconfirmed rumours surfaced that some of Offiah's Lions team mates had heavily backed the Eels flyer to win (Offiah was the bookies favourite), and that the Great Britain flyer had in fact deliberately missed the start of the race in order for his team mates to collect the winnings.
Post Career
After retiring from playing, Lee Oudenryn returned to New Zealand where he is now a member of the New Zealand Police.[3]
References
- ↑ Proszenko, Adrian (16 May 2010). "Race lines up NRL's quick men". The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia: Fairfax). Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- ↑ Lee Oudenryn @ rugbyleague.co.nz
- ↑ "Dogs at the centre of action on Rural Day". Manawatu Standard. 8 October 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2011.