Harley Fox
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| Date of birth | 13 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 115 kg (18 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Edmund's College, Ipswich Anglican Church Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harley Fox (born 13 January 1996) is an Australian rugby union player. He has played in the blindside flanker and number 8 positions for the Queensland Reds and Melbourne Rebels in the Super Rugby competitions[1] and for Irish club Connacht in the European United Rugby Championship competition.[2]
Fox grew up in Ipswich, Queensland playing rugby league for the local Brothers club as a junior and attending primary school at Raceview State School. Fox represented Queensland in both rugby league and rugby union at under 16 and under 18 age levels.[3]
Fox attended St Edmund’s College in Ipswich, where he played a variety of sports, including cricket and baseball. Fox transferred to Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane to take up a rugby union scholarship, where he was coached and mentored by future Queensland Reds under 20s coach Jason Gilmore.[3] In September 2014, he was named captain of the Australian Schoolboys team, with the rapidity of his success in switching codes being described as "remarkable".[4][5] He led the Australian Schholboys team on tour to Wellington, New Zealand in September and October 2014,[5] which featured a 50–15 win over the Fiji Schoolboys team.[3]