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Wayne Pivac is a successful Kiwi professional rugby union coach and a former sworn officer in the New Zealand Police. He began his police career as a constable at the Takapuna police station on Auckland's North Shore. He played his early rugby at Rosmini College and then Westlake Boys High School, but Pivac was also good enough to play for the North Harbour provincial team, while still a serving policeman.
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- Coaches sporting heroes wayne pivac
- Rugby Coaching Career
- Personal life
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Coaches sporting heroes wayne pivac
Rugby Coaching Career
Pivac then moved from playing into coaching, first with club duty at Takapuna, a couple of seasons with North Harbour's second XV, then Northland, the province his father represented. Pivac coached Northland to National Provincial Championship Second Division success in 1997 and earned them promotion to First Division the following year. Pivac then helmed Auckland to a win the NPC in 2002 and again in 2003, as well as the Ranfurly Shield. Pivac was voted New Zealand Rugby Union Coach of the Year in 2003. He was then hired by the Fiji Rugby Union in February 2004 to replace coach Mac McCallion. He coached Fiji to win the Pacific Tri-Nations in his first year as head coach and helped coach the Fijian Sevens to win the 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
In January 2007, Pivac quit Fiji Rugby as the head coach, citing family commitments. Following his move back to New Zealand from Fiji, Pivac was appointed coach of North Harbour in the same month. After a disappointing season with North Harbour, Pivac stepped down as coach in 2008 and was replaced by Craig Dowd and Jeff Wilson who were also replaced the next year after a further disappointing season. In 2011, Pivac succeeded Mark Anscombe as the Auckland coach in the ITM Cup.
In 2014 it was announced that Pivac had been appointed as the Assistant Coach of the Scarlets who play out of the Parc y Scarlets stadium in Llanelli, Wales. Having initially been taken on to work with the forwards, Pivac was then promoted to the Scarlets' head coach following the departure of Simon Easterby to Ireland. Pivac then steered his side to a stunning Guinness PRO12 title in Dublin, Ireland, hammering Munster in a 46-22 in a six-try romp at the Aviva Stadium to secure their first major trophy for 13 years in May, 2017.
Personal life
Pivac has two sons named Matthew and Bradley. Pivac has a Croatian background and his family originally came from Podgora in Dalmatia.