Background
His mother is a Tongan who his father met and married in Australia. Ram was born in Australia, his parents moved to Tonga when he was 3 to start a business there.
His mother is a Tongan who his father met and married in Australia. Ram was born in Australia, his parents moved to Tonga when he was 3 to start a business there.
He plays for Northland. He has represented Tonga sevens team between 2009-2015 as well as the Tonga national team Ram"s father, Samuel Santa Ram is a Fiji-Indian and is from Tavua.
He plays club rugby for Lavengamalie Rugby Club.
He represented the Tongan under-19 team in 2006. He joined Lavengamalie Rugby Club in 2005.
In 2009, he played in the Pacific Rugby Cup for Tautahi Gold. In the same year, he was recruited into the Tonga sevens team
One of his biggest victory came in 2012 when he scored a try to help Tonga 7"s beat the Fiji sevens side for the first time in history at the 2012 Wellington Sevens.
He joined the Kerikeri rugby club in 2011. A bad knee injury sidelined him for most of the 2013. In June 2015, after the Blues suffered multiple injuries, Ram was called onto the bench for their final 2015 Super Rugby pool game against the Highlanders.
He made his international debut for Tonga in the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup against the United States in Toronto.
He was then included in the Tongan team to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. He came off the bench against Georgia to replace the injured captain, Nili Latu.
He started against Namibia 10 days later scoring two-tries and setting up another for winger, Telusa Veainu. He was awarded the Manitoba of the Match in that game.