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Dietrich Roache

Dietrich Roache

Australian rugby sevens player

Dietrich Peter Roache (born 6 July 2001) is an Australian professional rugby union player who plays as a wing for Shute Shield club Western Sydney Two Blues and the Australia national sevens team.[1][2][3][4]

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Early life

Born of Samoan descent from his father,[5] Roache initially played rugby league for his school, Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield.[6] Whilst there, he was a part of the Patrician Brothers rugby league team that won the NRL Schoolboy Cup.[7] Roache is a Roman Catholic.[8]

International career

Though his father and uncle played rugby for the former Parramatta Two Blues, Roache did not start playing club rugby until 2018.[6] This came after getting a free ticket to the Sydney Sevens in 2018.[5] He gained a reputation as a fast player, being able to run a time of 4.59 seconds over 40 metres. This matched the time of Trae Williams who missed selection for the Australian Olympic team for the 2020 Olympic Games as a result.[9] He was selected for the New South Wales Waratahs' Junior under-18 team and part of their development programme.[10] In 2019, he played for Australia at the World Rugby School Sevens and a year later was signed by Rugby Australia to their sevens programme.[11]

In 2021, when he was selected for the Australia national rugby sevens team for their 2020 Olympics rugby sevens tournament,[5] he was the youngest member of the team and was given responsibility for taking care of the team's mascot Wally.[12] This followed on from Henry Hutchison at the 2016 Summer Olympics where Wally was kidnapped by players from the Sweden women's national football team for 24 hours.[6]

Roache competed for Australia at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.[13][14]

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