Junior Roqica
Encyclopedia
Junior Roqica is an Australian rugby league
player, of Fijian
descent for the Wests Tigers
in the National Rugby League
. His position is on the wing, although he can play at centre and second row. He has not made his NRL debut but he is in the Wests Tigers Top 25 squad for the 2010 season. He is currently playing in the Tigers Under 20s.
, and represented NSW Catholic Colleges when he was 17. In 2008, he played for the Australian schoolboys side.
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...
player, of Fijian
Fijian people
Fijian people are the major indigenous people of the Fiji Islands, and live in an area informally called Melanesia. The Fijian people are believed to have arrived in Fiji from western Melanesia approximately 3,500 years ago, though the exact origins of the Fijian people are unknown...
descent for the Wests Tigers
Wests Tigers
The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's mid-western suburbs. They have competed in the National Rugby League since they were formed at the end of the 1999 season as a joint-venture club between the Balmain Tigers and the Western Suburbs...
in the National Rugby League
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...
. His position is on the wing, although he can play at centre and second row. He has not made his NRL debut but he is in the Wests Tigers Top 25 squad for the 2010 season. He is currently playing in the Tigers Under 20s.
Career
Roqica played junior football with Concord Burwood and participated in the Balmain Tigers Development Program. He also played for Holy Cross College RydeHoly Cross College Ryde
Holy Cross College is a Catholic high school in the suburb of Gladesville in Sydney, Australia established in the tradition of the Patrician Brothers.- History and Tradition :...
, and represented NSW Catholic Colleges when he was 17. In 2008, he played for the Australian schoolboys side.