Nick Cummins

Background

Nick Cummins was born in Portuguese Macquarie, New South Wales.

Education

He attended Street Francis" College in Crestmead, where he starred in the swimming pool and on the athletics track, as well as on the rugby field

Career

On 4 July 2014 Nick announced that he would leave Western Force and move to Japan at the end of the super rugby season due to family reasons. His usual position is wing.However, after a season in Japan he returned to Western Force for the 2014/15 season. Cummins answers to the nickname "The Honey Badger", bestowed on him after he drew inspiration from the fierce nature of the honey badger and attempted to think like the animal in defence.

One of eight siblings, he was raised in Logan City south of Brisbane by his father Mark Cummins, who was a single dad.

In 2005, Cummins represented Queensland at the Australian Schools Rugby Championships in Canberra. He moved to Sydney in 2006, where he joined the Randwick rugby club and played for their grand final-winning Colts side that year.

In 2007, Cummins was selected for the Australian Sevens squad and he was the top try scorer for the team at the Institutional Review Board Sevens World Series. Later that year, he moved to Perth after signing a two-year contract with the Western Force.

Cummins played for the Perth Spirit team that reached the semi-final stage of the Australian Rugby Championship in 2007.

He made his Super Rugby debut for the Western Force in 2008, starting in the first round against the Sharks in Durban. In 2009, Cummins was invited to the Wallabies training camp prior to the northern Spring Tour, although injury prevented his involvement on that tour. In 2010, he was selected for the Australian Barbarians and played in two home matches against England.

He was then selected in Australia"s 28 man squad that travelled to South Africa as part of the 2010 Tri-Nations series, although he wasn’t required to play.

In 2012, Cummins was selected for the Australia squad for the inaugural Rugby Championship. On 4 July 2014 it was announced that Cummins would be released early from his Western Force and Australian Rugby Union contracts on compassionate grounds.

He announced he would be moving to Japan due to health concerns in his family. He signed a new contract with Japanese club the Coca-Cola Red Sparks.

Achievements

• Later that year, Cummins went to the Commonwealth Games Sevens tournament in Delhi, where he played in Australia’s silver medal-winning team He made his Test debut on 6 October 2012, and played on the wing in the Wallabies 25-19 win over Argentina in Rosario.