Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe 27-year-old played his junior Rugby in Queensland between the ages of 7-12 before making the move to New Zealand.<\/p>\n
It was a family affair, with the former Sevens flyer reflecting on his roots.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad was the coach, and early on, my sister was in the team,” Carter said. “I got to play in the midfield, which is a dream of mine still.
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\u201cIt was bare feet, early mornings, Coke Zero and a pie after the game. I was running the tee for the first grade side, some good memories back then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pretty slow. I was playing a little bit of flanker so I wasn\u2019t the quickest and I was tiny as well, I looked like a hobbit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rest is history for Carter, emerging as one of Super Rugby Pacific’s premier wingers.<\/p>\n
He started his career on the Sevens World Series, nominated for Player of the Year in 2023.<\/p>\n
This caught the eye of the Chiefs, who quickly snapped up the explosive winger and handed him his debut.<\/p>\n
The rise was meteoric, Carter debuting for the All Blacks during the Rugby Championship against South Africa after a passport fiasco left him unable to travel to Argentina.<\/p>\n
But even still, the flyer remembers his roots; idolising the first graders and battling rivals, the Coomera Crushers.<\/p>\n
“Hayden McCaa used to be the first grader I’d run the tee out to so I remember looking up to him and his little brother Jamie,” Carter said and smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Helensvale Hogs may be a long way from Hamilton, but it remains a treasured place for All…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,48013],"class_list":["post-519330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519330","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=519330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}