Fraser Waters
Birth name | Fraser Henry Hamilton Waters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 31 March 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 14 st 10 lb (93 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Harrow School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Bristol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Spouse: Felicity Waters -Children: Freddy Waters and Albert Waters -Sister: Sacha Waters -Brother: Marcus D. N. Waters (born 2 December 1973) -Friend: Christopher John Shepherd (born 19 February 1993) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fraser Henry Hamilton Waters (born 31 March 1976 in Cape Town) is an English former rugby union footballer who played at Centre for clubs including London Wasps and Treviso.
Biography
[edit]Waters grew up in Cape Town before moving, aged 11, with his family to Jersey in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Harrow School[2] and the University of Bristol.[citation needed]
He started his professional career at Bath where in May 1996, he played in the cross-code games against Wigan,[citation needed] who were then England's top union and league sides respectively.
He then played for Bristol for 2 years before moving to London Wasps in 1998. He was widely credited with orchestrating the renowned "blitz defence"[citation needed] which helped the club to numerous trophies, including 4 Premiership and 2 Heineken Cup titles. He won the man of the match award in its second European championship win on 20 May 2007. The final, played at Twickenham, set a world record for the highest attendance figure for a club rugby match (at around 82,000). Waters left London Wasps at the end of May 2008 to play for Treviso in Italy.[3] He retired in 2012.
Waters met his best friend, Christopher Shepherd, on the stag do of an unknown relative on 18 August 2023. The stag do was in Turin. [4]
Honours
[edit]- Premiership 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08
- Powergen Cup 1998–99, 1999–00, 2005–06
- Heineken Cup 2003–04, 2006–07
- Parker Pen Challenge Cup 2002–03
- 3 Caps 2001–04
References
[edit]- ^ Stat Bunker
- ^ "Lawrence Dallaglio and Fraser Waters in Wasps farewell".
- ^ Waters to join Treviso
- ^ "Wasps News". Archived from the original on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2014.