Kamaishi Seawaves

Kamaishi Seawaves
日本製鉄釜石シーウェイブス
Full nameKamaishi Seawaves Rugby Football Club
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Founded2001
RegionIwate Prefecture, Tōhoku
Ground(s)Kamaishi City Stadium
Coach(es)Yasuo Suda
League(s)Japan Rugby League One, Division Two
20225th
Official website
www.kamaishi-seawaves.com

Kamaishi Seawaves is a Rugby union football club in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 2001.[1]

At its inception, it was known as Nippon Steel Corporation Kamaishi.[2]

Current squad

The Kamaishi Seawaves squad for the 2024-25 season is:[3]

Kamaishi Seawaves squad

Props

  • Japan Yusuke Yamada
  • Japan Soichiro Inada
  • Japan Shodai Osada
  • Japan Taiki Noguchi
  • Japan Takuya Takahashi
  • Japan Sei Matsuyama
  • Japan Riku Takahashi
  • Japan Satoshi Ueda
  • Japan Suguru Aoyagi

Hookers

  • Japan Daiki Ito
  • Japan Naoki Ouno
  • Japan Hayato Nishibayashi

Locks

  • Japan Dallas Tatana
  • New Zealand Hamish Dalzell
  • Japan Ryunosuke Yamada
  • Japan Yuga Suzuki
  • Japan Satoshi Hatazawa

Flankers

  • Samoa Ben Nee-Nee
  • Japan Ryota Kono
  • Japan Daisuke Musha
  • Japan Taichi Takahashi
  • New Zealand Angus Fletcher
  • Japan Kohei Ishigaki

No8s

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Atsushi Minami
  • Japan Yohei Murakami (c)
  • Japan Takumi Tokairin
  • Japan Kotaro Furukawa

Fly-halves

  • Japan Ryoma Nakamura
  • Japan Kazushi Ochi
  • New Zealand Mitch Hunt
  • Japan Kaisei Takai

Centres

  • Japan Kaito Funaki
  • Japan Katsuto Hatanaka
  • Japan Osuka-lloyd Murata
  • South Africa Gerdus van der Walt*
  • Tonga Mosese Tonga*
  • Japan Syo Kataoka
  • Japan Koki Saito REP DEP

Wingers

  • New Zealand Darius Thomas*
  • Japan Ryuji Abe
  • Japan Kodai Ono
  • Japan Gousuke Kawakami
  • Japan Jamie Henry
  • Japan Ken Chiba

Fullbacks

Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Notable players

The following former Kamaishi Seawaves players became Japanese internationals:[4]

References

  1. ^ "Overview of Kamaishi City". Kamaishi City Council. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  2. ^ Nakagawa, Fumiyuki (23 May 2011). "Rugby squad cheers up quake-hit Kamaishi". Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Kamaishi Seawaves Members" (in Japanese). Kamaishi Seawaves. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Une grande équipe historique japonaise: Kamaishi Seawaves". Japon Rugby (in French). Retrieved 17 September 2017.
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