Full name Rodney Iona Years Team Height 1.77 m Nickname Rod Weight 89 kg | Name Rodney Iona Date joined 2014 Current club Brumbies Role Rugby union rugby centre | |
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Rodney Iona (born 17 August 1991) is an Australian rugby union footballer who currently plays as a centre for the Brumbies in Super Rugby. He also represented the Canberra Vikings in the inaugural National Rugby Championship.
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Originally from Melbourne, Iona made his way north to Australia's capital Canberra in an attempt to forge out a rugby career for himself. In 2011 he linked up with the Tuggeranong Vikings who play in the ACTRU Premier Division while attending the Brumbies academy. He represented the Brumbies at sevens and won the World Club Sevens Championship in 2013 and also played in the World Club 10s tournament in Singapore.
A spate of injuries for the Brumbies in the middle of the 2014 Super Rugby season saw Iona earn his first cap in a derby match against the Waratahs in Sydney. His debut didn't go quite as well as he'd have liked with his first pass being intercepted which resulted in a Waratahs try. Despite this Iona was offered a full-time one-year contract with the Brumbies ahead of the 2015 Super Rugby season.
Iona also played for the Canberra Vikings in the first ever National Rugby Championship in 2014 making 6 appearances.