Birth name | Dewald Meyer Senekal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 12 January 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Uitenhage, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 114 kg (251 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | HTS Daniel Pienaar, Uitenhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dewald Meyer Senekal, born in Uitenhage, South Africa, is a South African rugby union coach who is currently Forwards coach of Irish province Connacht.
In his playing career, Senekal played as a number eight for Bayonne, Agen and Toulon in France. He also played for the Cheetahs and Lions in his native South Africa before moving to the Northern hemisphere in 2009.
Senekal has also played cricket for the provincial teams of Eastern Province and the Northerns.[1]