Jovan Jacques Bowles (born 27 June 1983 in Durban, South Africa) was the captain of the South African Emerging Sevens rugby union team and has won the Tusker Sevens tournament in Kenya for the last two years. He plays the position of centre. He is the brother of Maso Bowles who played for the Springbok under 21 side in the 2000 u/21 SANZAR series in which John Smit captained the side to victory in the series.
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight | [undue weight? – discuss] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | St Henry's Marist Brothers' College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Professional rugby union footballer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bowles attended St Henry's Marist Brothers' College where he was head boy in 2000 and played in the first rugby team from 1998 to 2000. [citation needed]
Bowles played his first Springbok Sevens game in 2006 at the age of 22, it was in Dubai where the Springbok Sevens team went on to win that leg of the IRB Sevens World Series. He has been on and off of the reserve bench ever since coming back from a injured hand sustained during trials with the Natal Sharks .
Trivia
- Goes to Church every Sunday.
- Was a member of the Drakensburg Boys Choir and his schools Schola Cantorum