Heka Nanai is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n professional rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer for the Canterbury Bulldogs

Canterbury Bulldogs

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...

. Nanai can play on the wing or in the centres.

Early years

Nanai is a graduate of Westfields Sports High School located in Fairfield West. Westfields is a sports school that has produced players such as Jarryd Hayne

Jarryd Hayne

Jarryd Lee Hayne is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Parramatta Eels of the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian, Fiji international representative winger and fullback, he has played his entire NRL career to date with Parramatta, with whom he got to the...

, Liam Fulton

Liam Fulton

Liam Mark Fulton is an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He play for the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League competition. Fulton primarily plays at lock....

, Krisnan Inu

Krisnan Inu

Krisnan Nevada Inu is a New Zealand professional rugby league player who currently plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the Australasian National Rugby League competition...

, Luke O'Donnell

Luke O'Donnell

Luke O'Donnell is an Australian professional rugby league footballer currently playing for the North Queensland Cowboys of the National Rugby League. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative back-rower, he previously played for the Balmain Tigers and Wests...

 and Mark Minichiello

Mark Minichiello

Markus Antonio "Mark" Minichiello is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League . He previously played for the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs...

.

Playing career

Nanai made his debut for the Bulldogs

Canterbury Bulldogs

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...

 against the Sydney Roosters

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 in Round 16 of the NRL season on 2 July 2007. He scored his first try in Round 19 against the Gold Coast Titans

Gold Coast Titans

Gold Coast Titans are an Australian professional rugby league football club, based in the Gold Coast, Queensland. The club competes in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership. It is the newest of the sixteen clubs in the league, having commenced its...

.In 2008 Nanai was the bulldogs leading try scorer with 14 for the season.

International career

On 2 October 2007, Nanai was called up to represent the Junior Kangaroos as a replacement for Jarryd Hayne

Jarryd Hayne

Jarryd Lee Hayne is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Parramatta Eels of the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian, Fiji international representative winger and fullback, he has played his entire NRL career to date with Parramatta, with whom he got to the...

, who was chosen for the Senior Kangaroos side.

Point Scoring Summary - Bulldogs

Season	Appearance	Interchange	Tries	Goals	F/G	Points
2007	3	-	1	-	-	4
2008	18	-	13	-	-	52

External links

• Heka Nanai Official Bulldogs Profile