Dave Rennie

Dave Rennie

Full name	David Noel Rennie
Date of birth	(1963-11-22) 22 November 1963
Place of birth	Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Centre
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1986–91	Wellington	59
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1990	Cook Islands
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
2012- 2008–10 2005–11 2003–07 2002 2001 2000–02 1999	Chiefs New Zealand U-20 Manawatu IRANZ Hurricanes (Assistant) Hurricanes U-23 Wellington Wellington (Assistant Coach)

Dave Rennie is a New Zealand rugby union coach, and currently the head coach of the Chiefs in the Super Rugby competition. His first season as head coach was the 2012 season in which he led the Chiefs to their first Super Rugby title.

Rennie was previously the coach of the Manawatu in the ITM Cup from 2005 to 2011. Under Rennie the Turbos were Championship Runner-up in the 2011 ITM Cup. He coached the Wellington between 2000 and 2002. In 2000, as his first year as the head coach, led the Wellington Lions to their first NPC title since 1986 (14 years). (Rennie was also a member of that 1986 team.) Rennie also coached various Upper Hutt club level teams, the same club at which he started his rugby and coaching career.

Rennie was coach of the New Zealand national under-20 rugby union team, under whom the team won three consecutive World titles from 2008 to 2010. In 2012 Rennie became the first first-year Super Rugby coach to win a Super Rugby title when he guided the Chiefs to a 37-6 win over the Sharks. Unfortunately, during the match, Rennie's house was robbed and valuables were stolen, as had similarly occurred to Chiefs player Sonny Bill Williams several weeks earlier.

He coached the Chiefs to their second straight Super Rugby title in the 2013 season, beating the Brumbies by 27-22.

External links

• Dave Rennie Profile
• International Rugby Academy Profile