Owain Brown

Owain Brown

Personal information
Full name	Owain Brown
Born	30 July 1984 (1984-07-30) (age 27) Haverfordwest, Wales
Playing information
Position	Prop Forward
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2010–	Leigh East	12	2	0	0	8
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2010–	Wales	0	0	0	0	0
As of 04 August 2010

Owain Brown (born 30 July 1984) is a Welsh rugby league footballer with Leigh East. His usual positions is a Prop Forward. He has represented Wales and Great Britain Students at Rugby League.

Brown first played rugby league as a seven-year-old with hometown Wrexham Raiders before moving on to Widnes Tigers at 11.

He then stepped up and spent four years in the Academy at Super League giants St. Helens, he then moved to Australia for a brief career with Moss Vale Dragons in Wollongong, near Sydney.^[1]

After moving back home to Wrexham he signed with Halton Simms Cross until 2010 when he signed with Leigh East.

On 3 August 2010 Owain was included in the 48-man training squad for their Alitalia European Cup games against Scotland, Ireland and France and their full international friendly and under 23 matches against Italy.^[2]

Unfortunately Owain picked up a broken leg on his league debut for Leigh East against York Acorn which resulted in him having no involvement with the Wales training squad.

Summer of 2011 Owain was selected as Vice Captain for the touring Great Britain Students tour to Bali and Australia. Owain played in 4 out of 5 tour games and led the side as captain on 2 occasions in wins against an Indonesian Select side and the Australian Universities side in the 2nd test match. The touring side went on to make history by sealing a 1st test series win on Australian soil with 2 wins and a draw against the Australian Universities side.

References

1. ^ http://www.runcornandwidnesweeklynews.co.uk/runcorn-widnes-sport/other-sports/2009/05/14/student-rugby-league-halton-simms-cross-prop-and-computer-science-student-owain-brown-to-play-for-great-britain-and-ireland-academic-lions-55368-23614156/
2. ^ http://www.walesrugbyleague.co.uk/article/wales-release-2010-training-squad.html

Persondata
Name	Brown, Owain
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	30 July 1984
Place of birth	Haverfordwest
Date of death
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