Date of birth | [1] | 3 December 2001||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 98 kg (216 lb; 15 st 6 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | St Joseph's College, Nudgee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reesjan Pasitoa (born 3 December 2001) is an Australian professional rugby union player. He currently plays for the Western Force in Super Rugby, [2] having previously played for the Brumbies. [3] His usual position is fly-half. [3] [4]
Raised in Perth, Western Australia, [5] Reesjan Pasitoa played his junior rugby with the Perth-Bayswater club and Trinity College, East Perth. [6] He moved to Queensland in 2017 to attend St Joseph's College, Nudgee on a rugby scholarship for his final three years of school. [6] Pasitoa guided Nudgee to consecutive GPS premierships in 2017 and 2018, [7] kicking the game-winning goal against arch-rivals Gregory Terrace in his first season.
He was selected for the 2018 Australian Schools & Under-18 team and played in Brisbane against Tonga [8] and New Zealand, [9] before playing on their successful Northern Hemisphere tour against Scotland [10] and Ireland. [11] In the following year, he steered the team to away victories over Fiji [12] and New Zealand in Hamilton. [13]
Pasitoa joined the Brumbies squad in Canberra ahead of the 2020 season. [14] He had actually signed with the team in late 2018 but still had one year of school left to complete. [7] He made his Super Rugby debut for the Brumbies in February 2020 from the bench in their third round match against the Highlanders. [3] [15]
He signed with the Western Force after the 2021 season, in a return home to Perth where he had first started playing rugby. [2] [6]