Kieran James Crowley is the current coach of the Canadian men's rugby team

Canada national rugby union team

The Canada national rugby union team represents Canada in international rugby union. They are governed by Rugby Canada, and play in red and black. Canada is classified by the International Rugby Board as a tier two rugby nation. There are ten tier one nations, and seven tier two nations, the...

 and a former member of the New Zealand All Blacks

All Blacks

The New Zealand men's national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport....

 where he played as a fullback. He has also coached the New Zealand Under-19s in the 2007 World Championships as well as coaching provincial side Taranaki

Taranaki Rugby Union

Taranaki Rugby Football Union is the governing body of Rugby in the New Zealand province of Taranaki. The main stadium is Yarrow Stadium which is in the main centre of New Plymouth. Taranaki plays in the annual ITM Cup in which it also competes for the Ranfurly shield...

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Playing career

Crowley received his first international cap on 1 June 1985 against England and would play 19 test matches scoring 105 points. He was a member of the 1987 World Cup winning side.

Crowley played club rugby for Kaponga and provincial rugby with Taranaki.

Crowley also played cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 for Taranaki

Taranaki cricket team

Taranaki cricket team is a cricket team representing the Taranaki Region of New Zealand and currently competes in the Hawke Cup.Taranaki as a representative team played as early as 1877, later first playing first-class cricket in 1883 against Auckland at the Auckland Domain, with their first-class...

 in the Hawke Cup

Hawke Cup

The Hawke Cup is a cricket competition for New Zealand's District Associations. Apart from 1910/11, 1912/13 and 2000/01 the competition has always been on a challenge basis. In order to win the Hawke Cup the challenger must beat the holder on their home ground...

 and for Central Districts

Central Districts Stags

The Central Districts Stags are a New Zealand first class cricket team based in central New Zealand. It competes in the State Championship first class competition and the State Shield domestic one day competition...

 in one season of the Brabin cup (Second XI) competition.

Coaching career

Crowley was coach of the Taranaki provincial side from 1998 to 2007. From 2002 to 2003 he also acted as a selector for the All Blacks. In 2007, he coached the New Zealand Under 19s at the World Championships

2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship

The International Rugby Board awarded the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship to the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Ulster branch hosted it. The Tournament, which took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 4-21 April, was split into two divisions of twelve teams...

 in Ireland, where they went undefeated, beating South Africa in the final 31–7, winning the competition for the first time since 2004.

In March 2008, Rugby Canada announced that Crowley would be replacing Ric Suggitt

Ric Suggitt

Ric "Sluggo" Suggitt is a former Canadian rugby union footballer and National Rugby Team Coach since 1998. Ric also is currently the Head Coach of the USA Women's 7's Olympic Rugby team and a coach educator....

 as head coach of the Canadian national team.

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