page_title: Winston Cowie
section_title: Rugby and charity work
hierarchical_section_title: Winston Cowie / Rugby and charity work
caption_attribution_description: English: Winston Cowie rugby - UAE representative
context_page_description: Winston Cowie is the Manager of Marine Policy at the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is a film director, New Zealand author of discovery history and the New Zealand Land Wars, has represented the United Arab Emirates at international rugby, is a Master Diver with a regular column in the Dive Pacific and New Zealand Magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
  He previously worked as a lawyer before choosing to pursue an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy from the Oxford University School of Geography and the Environment, Keble College, Oxford University.
context_section_description: Cowie played international rugby union for the United Arab Emirates in 2017 playing in the Asia Rugby Division 1 championships in Malaysia. He was a hooker, prop and No.8.  
  Cowie played in the Varsity Match in 2006 and 2007 for Oxford University v Cambridge University. Former Australian wing Joe Roff was his captain. He toured Japan and the USA with the Oxford team. Cowie also represented Oxford University at athletics and surfing. His Keble College rugby team won the Oxford Rugby Cuppers tournament in 2007 with Cowie scoring in the final.
  Cowie was captain of the Doha and Mahurangi Rugby Club, and played for the Harbour Hawks in Dunedin and the British Penguins in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. 
  In 2016 with friend Mike Ballard and the Mike Ballard Foundation he led a goodwill mission to Seychelles and Madagascar that featured on World Rugby TV. The Air Seychelles Mike Ballard Foundation Conquistadors were made up of eight clubs from the Arabian Gulf. The team led rugby coaching clinics with junior players and donated rugby boots and kit. The goodwill mission featured on World Rugby TV and the Mike Ballard Foundation Committee were awarded UAE volunteers of the year.
caption: Cowie played rugby for Oxford University and debuted for the United Arab Emirates in 2017 in the Asian Championship.
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