Chris Lowrey is a New Zealand rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 footballer who plays for Auckland in the Air New Zealand Cup

Air New Zealand Cup

The ITM Cup is New Zealand's annual professional domestic Rugby union competition, taking place from late July through October . It was founded in 2006 with 14 teams, after the National Provincial Championship was split into two separate competitions. The other 12 provincial teams from the NPC...

 and the Blues in the Super 14

Super 14

Super Rugby is the largest and pre-eminent professional Rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere...

. His playing positions are number eight and flanker

Flanker (rugby union)

A flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union. Flankers play in the forwards, and are generally classified as either blindside, or openside flankers; numbers six and seven respectively. The name comes from their position in a scrum in which they flank each set of forwards...

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Lowrey played club rugby for Ponsonby

Ponsonby, New Zealand

Ponsonby is an inner-city suburb of Auckland City located 2 km west of the Auckland CBD, in the North Island of New Zealand. The suburb is oriented along a ridge running north-south, which is followed by the main street of the suburb, Ponsonby Road....

, where he won the 2007 Auckland Club Player of the Year Award. He also competed for the New Zealand Colts against Canada in 2007. Lowery is a former student of Mount Albert Grammar School where he was Head Boy (2004) and captain of the First XV Rugby Team.

External links

• Blues player profile