Date of birth | 30 January 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Matraville Sports High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maurice Longbottom (born 30 January 1995) is an Australian professional rugby union player who plays as a back for the Australia national sevens team.[1]
Longbottom played some matches for the South Sydney Rabbitohs junior squad, but was described as "too small for senior footy".[2][3] Longbottom's performance in the Oktoberfest Sevens drew the attention of Australia rugby sevens team coach Andy Friend.[4]
Longbottom was a member of the Australian men's rugby sevens squad at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team came third in their pool round and then lost to Fiji 19-0 in the quarterfinal.[5] He competed for Australia at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.[6][7]
Longbottom is a Dharawal.[8] He once expressed that he wants to inspire the next generation of Indigenous athletes.[9]