Mike Petri

Mike Petri
Michael Petri
Mike Petri Churchill Cup 2010 vs Russia.jpg
Date of birth 16 August 1984 (1984-08-16) (age 27)
Place of birth Brooklyn, New York
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 83 kg (13 st 1 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Scrum-half
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
NYAC
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
2010
2011 –
Sale Sharks
Newport Gwent Dragons


National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)

2007 –
USA U-19
USA

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Michael Zachary Petri (born 16 August 1984 in Brooklyn) is a American rugby union scrum-half who has played for Newport Gwent Dragons. He joined the Dragons from Sale Sharks after a lack of game time for the Premiership side. In 2010, he returned to the American to focus on his role on the United States national rugby union team. He has participated with the squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France[1][2] as well as the 2011 Rugby World Cup, scoring the only try of the USA-Russia match.[3]

Before moving to England, he had been captain of NYAC in New York City, and led them to the Rugby Super League title in his final season there in 2010.

Petri has been playing rugby since he was a freshmen at Xavier High School (New York City). He was originally approached at age 14 by the Xavier rugby coaches[4]. He then attended Penn State University under a rugby scholarship[5] where he was selected to the Collegiate All-American Team four years in a row. He graduated with a degree in Life Sciences[6].

Mike also captained the U-19 and All-American Squad as well as won the 2006 Collegiate All-Stars Tournament MVP and the 2006 Doug Edwards Award. Petri's father, also Mike, played rugby as a youth and encouraged his participation in the sport.[7]

Rugby wasn't the only sport Petri excelled in in High School, he was also a skilled soccer and hockey player, lettering in both varsity sports – Soccer and Rugby. He transitioned from soccer to rugby because "I was constantly getting yellow cards ... but I never thought a sport could be so perfect (as rugby)." Petri graduated from Penn State in 2006 with a Bachelor's in Life Science and was on the Deans List, the Alpha Epsilon Delta National Pre-Health Honors Society and the Phi Eta Sigma National Honors Society.

Oustide of Rugby, Mike has worked at the UBS wealth management team led by Gary Zahakos, a family friend.[8]. Petri started "from the ground up," working as a client service associate while he studied for and attained the necessary licenses to trade on the stock exchange. He then became more involved in portfolio analysis and trading[9]. He quit the job to pursue rugby full-time in England. He had previously worked at his family’s century-old plumbing business in Brooklyn and in construction with his uncle.

He is a devout New York Rangers fan.[10]

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