Barend Pieterse

Barend Pieterse

Personal information
Full name	Barend Hermanus Pieterse
Born	(1979-01-23) 23 January 1979 Virginia
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	108 kg (17 st 0 lb)
School(s) attended	Hoërskool Waterkloof
University	Rand Afrikaans University
Club information
Playing position	Lock
Youth career
2000	Golden Lions
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Pts)†
2001–04	Golden Lions		()
2005–10	Free State Cheetahs		()
2005	Cats		()
2006–10	Cheetahs	33	(10)
2011–12	Eastern Province Kings	16	(25)
Representative team(s)‡
2007	South Africa	1	(5)
2011	South African Kings	2	(0)
Teams coached
2013–	Kings (lineout coach)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 31 Oct 2012. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 09:21, 14 Aug 2012 (UTC).

Barend Pieterse (born 23 January 1979) is a former South African rugby union player and currently the lineout coach of the Eastern Province Kings and Southern Kings.

Career

He started playing his rugby for the Golden Lions in 2001. He played for them until 2004, when he moved to the Free State Cheetahs. Between 2004 and 2010, he also frequently represented the Cats and Central Cheetahs franchises in the Super Rugby competition. This culminated in a call-up to the South Africa national rugby union team, becoming Springbok No 793. However, he never played a test match for the Springboks, his only appearance was in the 5–22 defeat against the Barbarians in London on 1 December 2007, when he scored the only try of the game for the visitors.

He joined the Eastern Province Kings for the 2011 season, making 16 appearances. Although he was included in the Kings' 2012 Vodacom Cup and Currie Cup squads, he did not play any games, but took up a role as a lineout coach. He retired at the end of 2012 and became the lineout coach for the Southern Kings.