Marc Stcherbina

Marc Stcherbina

Personal information
Full name	Marc Stcherbina
Date of birth	December 7, 1976 (1976-12-07) (age 34)
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	14 st 7 lbs (92 kg)
School(s) attended	Sydney Boys High School
Youth representative teams
	Australian Schoolboys	7
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
2002 2002–04 2004–06 2006–08 2008–09	NSW Waratahs Manly Cannons Biarritz Northampton Cardiff Blues Newport GD	47 (35) 8 (5)
Representative teams
	Australia A Australia 7's
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Marc Stcherbina (born 7 December 1976 in Sydney) is a retired Australian rugby union player who last played for Newport Gwent Dragons. He was educated at Sydney Boys High School. He also played for the Waratahs, Northampton, and Cardiff Blues.

He captained Australian schoolboys, He is one of the few players to make three Australian schoolboy teams and captained the team in 1994 and 1995 Also playing for Australia 7's and Australia A . He represented Australia at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

He played most of his Super 12 Rugby on the Wing for the Nsw Waratahs. In his last season The Waratahs came 3rd in the Super 12, After this he Switched codes and played for the Rugby League team Manly Cannons in 2002. However this was short lived, at the end of the season he moved to French side Biarritz where he switched to centre. But after just one season decided to move to Northampton for the 04-05 season. He started 29 games for them that season, the most appearances of any player that season.

Due to Carlos Spencer joining Northampton, Guinness Premiership rules allowed only one overseas player on the pitch at a time Stcherbina could not get much first team rugby hence in 2006 he moved to Cardiff Blues. He moved to Newport Gwent Dragons for the 2008-09 season. However, in December 2008 Stcherbina suffered a serious neck injury playing for the Dragons in Toulouse, and did not play for the rest of the season.^[1] Despite making a good recovery, he announced his retirement on medical advice on 9 June 2009.^[2]

References

1. ^ Stcherbina admits paralysis fear - BBC Sport
2. ^ "Stcherbina steps down" (Press release). Newport Gwent Dragons. 2009-06-09. http://www.newportgwentdragons.com/NewsArticle.aspx?n=1537803b-82cd-4898-8957-332ab816e495. Retrieved 2009-06-10. 

External links

• Newport Gwent Dragons profile
• Cardiff profile
• Player Profile
• Stich Leaves Saints

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Name	Stcherbina, Marc
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Date of birth	7 December 1976
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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