Jake Paringatai

Career

He will represent the Highlanders in Super Rugby from 2013. Paringatai counts Northland, the Crusaders, Munster and Fukuoka Sanix Blues as his former sides.

Achievements

• Problems off the field earlier in his career, which included breaches of team protocol and culminated in a criminal charge when he was found guilty of groping a woman in a bar and fined $12,500, curtailed any aspirations he may have had of achieving higher honours, of which he had previously been touted foreign