Patrick "Pat" McCutcheon (born 24 June 1987) is an

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professional

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footballer. He plays for the

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in the

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competition, and his usual position is loose forward.

Family and early life

McCutcheon was born and raised in the small New South Wales farming town of

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. He was educated at St. Joseph's College in Sydney, and he played in the Australian Schoolboys Rugby team in 2005. His brother Lachlan McCutcheon also represented Australia as a schoolboy, but did not gain representative honours at a senior level. McCutcheon is married to Skye McCutcheon. He served as an ambassador for the Raise Foundation and Cure Brain Cancer Foundation,Pat McCutcheon
nbcolympics.com and is completing a program of Bachelor of Spatial Science and Surveying. McCutcheon played for the Australian Under 19 team in 2006, and was selected for the

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team in 2007.

Rugby career

McCutcheon made his debut for the Waratahs against the New Zealand Super 14 rugby team, the

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, in the 2010 Super 14 rugby season, as a flanker. In October 2010, he was a member of the Australia Sevens Rugby Union team to win the silver medal at the 2010

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taking place in

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, India. Australia lost to New Zealand in a closely fought final contest. He was appointed as captain of the Australian Sevens team for the 2009/10 IRB Series. McCutcheon toured Hong Kong and Europe with the Wallabies at the end of 2010, but did not play a Test. In 2012, he broke his ankle in round three of Super Rugby, playing for the Waratahs against the Highlanders in Dunedin, ending his season. Later in November 2015 he had a

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injury that took him out of competitions until April 2016.

Reference list

External links

Waratahs profile
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