Andries Mahoney (born 29 January 1985) is a South African

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

player, currently playing with the . His regular position is scrum-half.

Career

Youth

He played for the in the 1998 Under-13 Craven Week and progressed through the ranks, representing them at all youth levels up until 2006, when he played in the 2006 Under-21 Provincial Championship competition.

Leopards

In 2006, he was included in the senior squad for the

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competition and made his debut in the final game of the season against . He made 17 appearances in total for them in 2006 and 2007, but failed to establish himself and reverted to playing

Varsity Cup Varsity Cup is the collective name for four South African rugby union competitions involving the top rugby playing universities in the country. It was launched in 2008, with eight teams participating in the Varsity Cup competition and each univers ...

rugby with his university side in

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and

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Griffons

In 2011, he moved to

Welkom Welkom () is the second-largest city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about northeast of Bloemfontein which is the provincial capital. Welkom is also known as Circle City, City Within A Garden, Mvela and Matjhabeng. The cit ...

to join the and immediately established himself as their first choice scrum-half, playing in all eight matches in the

2011 Vodacom Cup The 2011 Vodacom Cup was contested from 25 February to 13 May 2011. The tournament was the 14th edition of the Vodacom Cup, an annual domestic South African rugby union competition, and was played between the fourteen provincial teams in South A ...

season.

Representative rugby

In 2012, he was selected for the South African Barbarians (North) team against that toured South Africa as part of the

2012 mid-year rugby test series The 2012 mid-year rugby union tests (also known as the Summer Internationals in the Northern Hemisphere) refer to the rugby union Internationals that were played through June, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. These matches marked the start of ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mahoney, Andries South African rugby union players Living people 1985 births Griffons (rugby union) players Leopards (rugby union) players Rugby union scrum-halves Rugby union players from North West (South African province)