Kurita Water RFC

Kurita Water Gush
Full name Kurita Water Rugby Football Club
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Founded 1962
Ground(s) Kurita Industrial Ground
35°30′24″N 139°19′2″E / 35.50667°N 139.31722°E / 35.50667; 139.31722
Coach(es) Scott Pierce
Captain(s) Mitsuo Nakao
League(s) Top East League
2016 4th
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.kurita-water-rugby.net

Kurita Water Gush are a Japanese rugby union team that play in the Top East League. They are owned by Kurita Water Industries, a water treatment chemical manufacturer. The team is based in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Squad

The 2016 Kurita Water Gush squad is:[1]

Kurita Water Gush squad

Props

  • New Zealand Jacob Ellison
  • Japan Kouki Imamura
  • Japan Kazuhiro Iwashita
  • Japan Shunsuke Murakami
  • Japan Atsushi Okayama
  • Japan Takashi Tokuyama

Hookers

  • Japan Kim Hyong-Ji
  • Japan Atsushi Maeda
  • Japan Tadayuki Nishiyama

Locks

  • Japan Shinsuke Fujiwara
  • Japan Takahiro Fukuda
  • Japan Mitsuo Nakao (c)
  • Japan Takuya Miyagawa
  • Japan Tetsuya Sato
  • Japan Hiroki Suwa

Loose Forwards

  • Japan Nobuyuki Hirai
  • Japan Wahito Hirano
  • Japan Kazuaki Kawata
  • Japan Norifumi Kobayashi
  • Japan Junjiro Ohno
  • New Zealand Ash Parker
  • Japan Syuuji Saito

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Yozaburo Mori
  • Japan Yoshitaka Motomura
  • Japan Ryo Omasa
  • Japan Kentaro Sugimori

Fly-halves

  • Japan Sinjiro Fuchimoto
  • New Zealand Mark Jackman
  • Japan Shinpei Suganuma

Centres

  • Japan Ryohei Chihara
  • Japan Takuto Mizuno
  • Japan Ryohei Morita
  • Japan Takuya Nakajima
  • Japan Kouichi Ohta
  • Japan Jun Tsuboi

Wingers

  • Japan Akihiro Goya
  • Japan Yusuke Ishii
  • Japan Hiroto Kuroda
  • New Zealand Ben Paltridge
  • Japan Daiki Yamaya

Fullbacks

  • Japan Kenichi Furukawa
  • Japan Shinjii Yamazaki
(c) denotes team captain.

References

  1. 2016年度 選手一覧 [List of players in 2016]. Kurita Water Gush. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
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