Tom McVerry

Tom McVerry

Personal information
Full name	Tom McVerry
Born	(1980-06-30) 30 June 1980 Australia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	104 kg (16 st 5 lb)
School(s) attended	Marist College Ashgrove
Club information
Playing position	Loose Forward
Current club	Brumbies
Youth career
2001–02	Reds
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Pts)†
2003–07	Reds	55	(0)
2007	Ballymore Tornadoes	8	(0)
2012–14	Kyuden Voltex	23	(0)
2014	Brumbies	6	(5)
Representative team(s)‡
1997	Australia Schoolboys		()
2007	Australia Sevens		()
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 21 July 2014. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 5 May 2014.

Tom McVerry (born 30 June 1980) is an Australian rugby union player who currently plays as a loose forward for the Brumbies in the international Super Rugby competition.

Career

McVerry started out his career in Queensland, playing age-level rugby and then progressing on to the Reds Academy. He finally made the first team during the 2003 Super 12 season and went on to make 55 appearances for the franchise over the next 5 years. A brief stint with the Ballymore Tornadoes, whom he captained during the inaugural Australian Rugby Championship in 2007 followed before he tried his luck overseas, initially in Italy before settling down in Japan where he spent 6 seasons with Kyuden Voltex.

During his time in Japan, McVerry´s wife suffered a brain tumour which forced him and his young family back to Australia’s capital while she was undergoing treatment. This allied with an injury crisis which had severely depleted the Brumbies loose forward stocks saw him surprisingly handed a short-term contract until the end of the 2014 Super Rugby season.

International

McVerry was an Australia Schoolboys representative in 1997 and also appeared for the Australia Sevens team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.