Background
McKendry was born in Stirling, Western Australia.
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He plays as a prop and is a New Zealand international. He then moved back to New Zealand when he was 7 years old. He was a Mountain Albert Lions junior and played for the Junior Kiwis.
He was a former boarding student at Mountain Albert Grammar School where he represented the under 15 Rugby team and Rugby League First XIII.
Sam McKendry debuted for the Penrith Panthers in the 2008 NRL season, with successful and unsuccessful stints keeping him in and out of first-grade.
In 2008 McKendry played for the New Zealand Māori in a curtain raiser to the 2008 World Cup. In 2010 he was named in the New Zealand Kiwis squad for the Four Nations tournament after Fuifui Moimoi withdrew due to injury.
McKendry again played for the New Zealand Māori in 2010 against England as part of the build up to the Four Nations. He made his test debut for the New Zealand Kiwis in the 2010 Four Nations.
Foreign the 2013 Anzac Test, McKendry was selected to play for New Zealand from the interchange bench in their loss against Australia.
Membership
However, during the 2010 NRL season, McKendry became a fixed member of Penrith Panthers 17-man squad.
