Regan Grace (born 12 December 1996) is a Welsh professional dual code rugby footballer who plays as a winger for English rugby union side Bath Rugby.[2]
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| Born | 12 December 1996 Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 12 st 12 lb (82 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He started his professional career coming through the academy and playing six seasons with English league side St Helens in the Super League.[3]
He has represented Wales at international level for rugby league.[4]
Background edit
Grace was born in Port Talbot, Wales and is of Jamaican descent.
He is the brother of television personality Lateysha Grace, and cousin of rugby footballer Calvin Wellington.[5]
Grace originally played rugby union, and started his career at Aberavon Quins RFC. He was also a member of the Ospreys youth teams.[5]
Club career edit
Grace joined St Helens in 2014, when he was only 17. Despite not making his first-team debut for St Helens until 2017, he was first picked to play for the Welsh international side in October 2015 when he came on as an interchange player in Wales' 14–6 victory over France.[6]
His first Super League appearance came on Good Friday, 14 April, 2017 in the derby match against Wigan where he scored a try on debut.[7] The following month he signed a new two-and-half year contract with St Helens.[8] Since that moment, Grace was a regular in the St Helens side making 139 appearances by the end of the 2021 season and scoring 87 tries.[1] Among those matches have been two Challenge Cup finals. The first was the 2019 Challenge Cup Final defeat by Warrington at Wembley Stadium[9] The second was the 26–12 2021 Challenge Cup Final victory over Castleford.[10] During the 2021 Challenge Cup Grace was the leading try-scorer, scoring seven including a hat-trick against Huddersfield in the quarter-finals, and two in the semi-final against Hull FC.[11][12][13]
Grace has also played in three Super League Grand Finals as St Helens won the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Grand Finals.[14][15][16] On 5 July 2022, Grace signed a contract to join Rugby Union side Racing 92 in 2023.[17] On 2 August 2022, it was announced that Grace had ruptured his achilles during St Helens heavy defeat against Salford which would rule him out for the remainder of the 2022 Super League season.[18]
International career edit
He played for Wales in the 2017 World Cup qualifiers, scoring two tries in the country's first game.[1]
He was selected in the Wales 9s squad for the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s.[19]