Wayne Pivac

Wayne Pivac
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Coach
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
2002-2003 2004-2007 2007-2008 2011-2014 2014-	Auckland Fiji North Harbour Auckland Scarlets

Wayne Pivac is a professional rugby union coach, and also a former policeman. Pivac coached Northland to NPC Second Division success in 1997 and earned them promotion to First Division the following year.

Pivac coached Auckland to win the National Provincial Championship in 2002 and again in 2003, as well as the Ranfurly Shield.^[1] He was then hired by the Fiji Rugby Union in February 2004 to replace coach Mac McCallion.^[2] He coached Fiji to win the Pacific Tri-Nations in his first year as coach and helped coach the Fijian Sevens to win the 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens.

On 19 January 2007, Pivac quit Fiji Rugby as the Head coach citing family commitments.^[2] Following his move from Fiji, Pivac was appointed coach of North Harbour in January.^[3] After a disappointing season with North Harbour, Pivac stepped down as coach in 2008 and was replaced by Craig Dowd and Jeff Wilson^[4] who were also replaced the next year after a further disappointing season. In 2011, Pivac succeeded Marc Anscombe as the Auckland coach in the ITM Cup.

In 2014 it was announced that Pivac had been appointed as the Assistant Coach of the Scarlets.^[5]

Personal life

Pivac has two children named Matthew and Bradley. He has a Croatian background. His family came from Podgora (Dalmatia).

References

↑ "Pivac to coach Fiji at World Cup". BBC. 26 August 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2007.
1 2 "Pivac quits to rejoin family". Fiji Times. 19 January 2007. Retrieved 19 January 2007.
↑ "North Harbour sign Pivac as coach". NZ Hearld. 24 January 2007. Retrieved 24 January 2007.
↑ "Jeff Wilson to coach North Harbour". Otago Daily Times. 28 October 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
↑ "Newsroom | Welsh Rugby Union". Welsh Rugby Union. Retrieved 17 July 2014.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mac McCallion	Fiji National Rugby Union Coach 2004-2007	Succeeded by Ilivasi Tabua

Scarlets squad

Forwards	Morgan Allen Jake Ball John Barclay Rynier Bernardo Will Boyde David Bulbring Jack Condy James Davies Taylor Davies Peter Edwards Ryan Elias Dylan Evans Rob Evans Shaun Evans Josh Helps Dafydd Hughes Wyn Jones Werner Kruger Samson Lee Josh Macleod Ken Owens (c) Emyr Phillips Tom Phillips Tom Price Lewis Rawlins Aaron Shingler Will Taylor

Backs	Jacob Cowley Aled Davies Gareth Davies Jonathan Davies Jonathan Evans Steffan Evans Steffan Hughes Dan Jones Johnny McNicholl Gareth Owen Matthew Owen Hadleigh Parkes Rhys Patchell Aled Thomas D. T. H. van der Merwe Liam Williams Scott Williams Tom Williams

Coach	Wayne Pivac

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