{"id":243271,"date":"2025-10-27T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243271\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:09:11","slug":"lachlan-hooper-returns-home-to-join-nsw-waratahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243271\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachlan Hooper Returns &#8216;Home&#8217; to Join NSW Waratahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The NSW Waratahs are excited to announce the signing of the talented Lachlan Hooper whose return to his home State will bolster the squad\u2019s backrow stocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\nHooper, born in Bathurst, NSW and schooled at Sydney\u2019s Barker College, is another product of the NSW Waratahs Pathways program, having started in it from Under 16s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\nNow 21, the 2023 Junior Wallabies player returns to NSW from the ACT Brumbies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\nHooper\u2019s time in Canberra began in 2022 when he moved there with his brother Tom to play for the Tuggeranong Vikings and then with the Brumbies 2023 Under 19s Premiership winning team, before joining the Brumbies for the 2024 and 2025 Super Rugby seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\nSince 2024, Hooper has also played in New Zealand with NPC side Northland Taniwha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\nNSW Waratahs Head Coach Dan McKellar has welcomed Hooper\u2019s return to NSW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIt is great to see a young player of Lachlan\u2019s calibre return to play for his home State,\u201d McKellar said. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cLachlan\u2019s a good young player whose experience of having played in Canberra and in New Zealand will add value to the already excellent backrow players we have at the Waratahs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#13;<br \/>\nEnds.\/. \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW Waratahs are excited to announce the signing of the talented Lachlan Hooper whose return to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,32951,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-243271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nsw-waratahs","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}