Pettowa Paraka
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Birth namePettowa Leeroy Paraka
Date of birth16 November 1993
Place of birthMount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
| Birth name | Pettowa Leeroy Paraka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 16 November 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 kg (18 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | The Southport School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pettowa Paraka (born 16 November 1993) is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian professional rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition. He is mainly a loosehead prop, although he can play all three front row positions.[1]
Paraka's family are from the village of Baiyer in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea.[2] He was born in the provincial capital of Mount Hagen.[3] Paraka was introduced to rugby union when he moved to the Gold Coast in Australia for his secondary education at The Southport School where he was a boarding student. He was selected for the Australian Schoolboys rugby team in his final year at Southport in 2011.[2][4]