Full name Darren Dawidiuk Name Darren Dawidiuk Place of birth Truro, England Height 1.80 m | Position Hooker Weight 108 kg Current club Gloucester Rugby Education Truro College | |
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Date of birth (1987-09-21) 21 September 1987 (age 28) School Richard Lander School
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Darren Dawidiuk (born 21 September 1987 in Truro) is a rugby union footballer, currently playing in the Premiership Rugby for London Irish. He plays as a Hooker.
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Dawidiuk joined the Cornish Pirates as an Academy player in 2006 having played his youth rugby at Truro RFC, joining the city club at the age of 12, and making progress through the juniors and colts before he made a 1st team debut as a blind-side flanker in a league match against St. Ives.
Dawidiuk became a member of the South West of England Rugby Academy (SWERA) based at Truro, and he also gained selection to the England Colleges team in 2005.
He played for England Colleges again in 2006, and also captained the Truro College team that beat South Gloucestershire and Stroud College in the final of the British Colleges Cup competition played at Castlecroft.
He made four appearances for the Cornish Pirates in his first season, and followed this with 14 in 2007–08 and 27 total appearances in 2008–2009. He also had a loan period at Redruth RFC during which time he appeared in the first team.
Dawidiuk was signed to Gloucester Rugby in the Aviva Premiership, starting from September 2009. After 8 seasons with Gloucester, on 25 July 2017, Dawidiuk left Kingsholm as he signed for rivals London Irish, returned to the Aviva Premiership from the 2017-18 season.
