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Tuesday <strong>October</strong> 3 <strong>2017</strong><br />

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St Andrew’s skipper selected<br />

at hooker in NZ Schools team<br />

SPORTS<br />

BACK TO FORWARD: Former St Andrew’s College player<br />

Shilo Klein moved from second-five to hooker and has<br />

been selected in the New Zealand Schools side.<br />

• By Andrew King<br />

SPEED AND power are<br />

two attributes needed in the<br />

modern-day hooker.<br />

But 18-year-old Shilo Klein<br />

has something else too: He’s a<br />

natural midfielder.<br />

The St Andrew’s College<br />

student, who moved from<br />

second-five to hooker last year,<br />

was one of 25 named in the<br />

New Zealand Schools side to<br />

play three games against two<br />

Australian and a Fijian team<br />

in Sydney.<br />

He didn’t play in the 54-7<br />

demolition of the Fijian<br />

Schools side on Thursday.<br />

Christ’s College first XV<br />

captain and centre Isaiah<br />

Punivai was also named in the<br />

New Zealand Schools side.<br />

Klein was also included<br />

in the Crusaders Academy<br />

for next year and is looking<br />

forward to making a career<br />

out of rugby.<br />

He weighs in at 105kg and<br />

is 180cm. He’s well-suited to<br />

the forward pack, first XV cocoach<br />

Mike Johnston said.<br />

“The skills he learnt at<br />

second-five has helped out as<br />

a hooker. He has developed<br />

some really good passing skills<br />

and lines to run out in those<br />

wider channels,” he said.<br />

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“We thought he would be a<br />

good fit in that position and<br />

that has been proved correct<br />

with his selection in the New<br />

Zealand Schools side.”<br />

Klein, who was born in<br />

Sacramento, California, said it<br />

was a no-brainer to move into<br />

the forward pack.<br />

“I had a lot of feedback that<br />

this position would suit my<br />

style of play. I played like a<br />

forward in the backline, I ran<br />

straight and looked for good<br />

physical go-forward,” he said.<br />

It took him a few attempts to<br />

feel comfortable in the middle<br />

of a scrum, but now he loves it.<br />

“In my first scrum, I felt<br />

claustrophobic, but I got used<br />

to it,” he said.<br />

Klein captained St Andrew’s<br />

this year, leading them to fifth<br />

in the UC Championship and<br />

third in the co-ed cup in the<br />

New Zealand Barbarians first<br />

XV championship.<br />

He moved to Christchurch<br />

when he was three with his<br />

parents, Howard and Wendy.<br />

“I play the sport in one way<br />

or another all year round,<br />

as I play touch and sevens<br />

also. I really want to play<br />

professionally some day,” he<br />

said.<br />

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