Will Harries

Will Harries (born 30 March 1987) is a Welsh former international rugby union player. A wing or fullback, he played for the Northampton Saints, Bedford Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, and most recently Ealing Trailfinders.
Professional career
Harries was educated at The Cathedral School, Llandaff and Millfield, a school known for its rugby tradition. Harries was part of the Northampton Saints Senior Academy, and made his first competitive appearance against Saracens on 18 November 2006. He featured in the Premiership A league, and five fixtures in the following season, while the Saints were relegated to League 1. For the 2008–09 season, Harries was loaned to Bedford Blues to gain further experience. Harries was released at the end of the season.
In 2008, Harries was first selected for the Wales national rugby sevens team squad, appearing in the IRB Sevens.
On 1 July 2009, it was announced that Harries would join the Newport Gwent Dragons. He appeared in a LV Cup game against the Saracens for the Dragons in January 2010, in which he scored 2 tries and was named Man of the Match. During his first season with the Dragons, Harries scored eight tries, including a hat trick against Edinburgh.
In May 2010 he was added to the Wales national rugby union team standby list for the summer matches and subsequently called into the full squad due to injury to Shane Williams. He made his international debut against New Zealand in Hamilton on 26 June 2010.
Following on from his debut, Harries was named in the squad for the 2010 end-of-year rugby union internationals. On 6 November 2010 he made his first international start, against Australia. This was his only appearance of the autumn, Wales opting to give George North his international debut the following week. Harries was not selected in the squad for the 2011 Six Nations Championship. At the end of the season, Harries suffered a substantial knee injury, ruling him out of remainder of the season, as well as the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Harries returned to the Welsh squad in May 2012, and came off the bench in a capped match against the Barbarians. Harries did not travel with the squad to Australia, and this was to be his last cap for Wales.
He left Newport Gwent Dragons at the end of the 2013–14 season and was selected in the Wales Sevens squad for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as they fell just short of a semi finals appearance.
After finishing the Commonwealth Games, Harries joined Championship team Ealing Trailfinders, where he spent five seasons. In 2019, he retired from professional rugby and alongside work, joined semi professional Chinnor RFC.
References
External links
Wales profile
Newport Gwent Dragons profile
Northampton Saints profile Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2023
Rugby union players from Cardiff
Welsh rugby union players
Wales international rugby union players
Living people
Northampton Saints players
Dragons RFC players
1987 births
Loughborough Students RUFC players
People educated at Millfield
People educated at The Cathedral School, Llandaff
Rugby sevens players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for Wales
Rugby union fullbacks
Rugby union wings