Junior Paramore

Junior Paramore

Full name	Peter Junior Paramore
Date of birth	(1968-11-18)November 18, 1968
Place of birth	Apia, Samoa
Height	199 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	104 kg (16 st 5 lb; 229 lb)
School	Hillary College
Notable relative(s)	Terry Fanolua (cousin)
Rugby league career
Position	Second-row
Professional clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1996 1996	Hunter Mariners → Castleford Tigers	0 10	(0) (12)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Number 8, Flanker
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
1987–1989 1990–1995	East Tamaki Manurewa
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1990–1995 1996–1999 1999–2004 2004–2006	Counties Manukau Bedford Blues Gloucester Bedford Blues	48 122 44	(70) (135) (30)
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1991–2001	Samoa	27	(30)
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
1991–1994	Samoa

Peter "Junior" Paramore ((1968-11-18)18 November 1968) is a former Samoan professional rugby union international, who also spent time playing professional rugby league.

Paramore was born in Samoa, and raised in New Zealand, playing his rugby in that country until 1995. In 1996, he left for the UK to take up a professional rugby league contract with Castleford Tigers. However, after one season, he moved to Bedford Blues professional rugby union side, helping them achieve promotion to the premiership in 1998. In 1999 he moved to Gloucester Rugby, joining his cousin Terry Fanolua. He remained there for five years, helping the club win the Powergen Cup in 2003, before leaving to rejoin Bedford as a coach in 2004.

During his career, Paramore won 29 caps for the Samoa national rugby union team, taking part in three World Cup campaigns.

He is now the principal of his own rugby academy. He is now a coach at Totton College Rugby academy alongside Bugde Pountney

External links

• Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org