also known as Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Rugby Club, are a Japanese
rugby union team based in
Sagamihara
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 723,470, with 334,812 households, and a population density of 1,220 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Sagamihara is the third-most-populous city ...
,
Kanagawa Prefecture,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. The owner of this club is
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The club was founded in 1981. It came second in the Top East 10 league in 2004-5 and entered the
Top League challenge series
The Top Challenge League was a professional rugby union competition in Japan. It was the second-highest level of rugby competition in the country and is a companies league; all the teams are owned by major companies and the players are generally ...
play-off.
The club won the Top East 11 league in 2006–07 and entered the
Top League in 2007–08. The team was named Dynaboars (a conflation of "dynamic" and "boars") as part of their promotion to the Top League; however, they were demoted at the end of the season.
The Dynaboars signed ex-Wales international and IRB World Player of the Year 2008
Shane Williams in 2012, retiring in 2014.
Players
Current squad
The Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars squad for the 2023 season is:
Former players
*
Simon Kasprowicz - lock
*
Blair Urlich
Blair Wolfgang Urlich (born 26 January 1975) is a New Zealand former professional rugby union player.
Rugby career
A loose forward from Kaitaia, Urlich played for Northland under-19s and got his start in first-class rugby in 1998 with North H ...
- No. 8
*
Kohei Matsui - center three-quarter back
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Troy Flavell - lock
*
Isma-eel Dollie - Flyhalf
*
Shane Williams – Wing
*
Dave Walder - Flyhalf
*
David Milo - No. 8
*
Hamish Gard
Hamish Gard (born 21 June 1985) is a New Zealand rugby union player. He played as a centre.
Career
Gard attended Palmerston North Boys' High School. In 2003 Gard made the Hurricanes Secondary Schools Team. He played for the Crusaders in the Su ...
inside centre
Coach
*
Scott Pierce
* John Mulvihill
* George Konia
References
External links
Mitsubishi Dynaboars- official page (Japanese)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Sports teams in Kanagawa Prefecture
Rugby in Kantō
Rugby clubs established in 1981
1981 establishments in Japan
Japan Rugby League One teams
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