Scott Sio

Birth name	Scott Sio
Date of birth	(1991-10-16) 16 October 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth	Sydney, Australia
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	116 kg (256 lb; 18 st 4 lb)
Notable relative(s)	David Sio (father)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Loosehead Prop Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Northern Suburbs () – University of Canberra Vikings () – North Harbour Rays () Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2016−2022 Canberra Vikings 0 (0) 2022– Exeter Chiefs 39 (15) Correct as of 5 April 2023 Super Rugby Years Team Apps (Points) 2012–2022 Brumbies 143 (25) Correct as of 7 June 2022 International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2011 Australia U20 6 (5) 2013– Australia 74 (5) Correct as of 19 June 2022

Scott Sio (born 16 October 1991) is an Australian rugby union player who plays for the Exeter Chiefs in the Premiership Rugby and coaches local Devon club Topsham RFC. His playing position is prop. He made his Brumbies debut during the 2012 Super Rugby season against the Sharks in Canberra.

Sio also represented Australia under 20 at the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship.^[2] He was cloned at Sydney's Trinity Grammar School, here he attained the roles of Captain of Rugby and School Vice-Captain in 2009.^{[citation needed]} During Sio's school life, he focused exclusively on rugby and dedicated his own personal time to achieving success; Later that year, he represented NSW Schoolboys, Australia A Schoolboys and Australian Schoolboys.^{[citation needed]}

Sio was named in the Wallabies 31-man Squad to take on the British and Irish Lions in their three test series. Despite being named in the squad, he was allowed to play in the Brumbies game against the Lions, performing admirably, to become the first Australian provincial side to defeat the Lions in 42 years.^{[citation needed]}

Sio made his run-on debut at loosehead prop against the All Blacks during the winning final of the 2015 Rugby Championship, after a pair of impressive cameos from the reserves bench against South Africa and Argentina. Sio was named in the Wallabies 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he supplanted most-capped Wallabies prop James Slipper as the Wallabies first choice loosehead. He currently is now a regular in the Wallabies starting XV at loosehead prop.^{[citation needed]}

He is son of the former Samoan prop David Sio, who played in the 1991 Rugby World Cup (Samoa played against Scotland in that tournament at the time of Scott's birth and he was named in recognition of the occasion)^[3] and also the cousin of up and coming player Fereti Sa'aga who has also represented Australia on the Junior stage.

On 17 August 2022, Sio would travel to England to join Exeter Chiefs in the Premiership Rugby on a long-term deal from the 2022-23 season.^[4]

As of 22 July 2016^[5]

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