Kamaishi Seawaves

Kamaishi Seawaves
日本製鉄釜石シーウェイブス
Full name	Kamaishi Seawaves Rugby Football Club
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Founded	2001
Region	Iwate Prefecture, Tōhoku
Ground(s)	Kamaishi City Stadium
Coach(es)	Yasuo Suda
League(s)	Japan Rugby League One, Division Two
2022	5th
Official website
	www.kamaishi-seawaves.com

Kamaishi Seawaves is a Rugby union football club in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 2001.^[1]

At its inception, it was known as Nippon Steel Corporation Kamaishi.^[2]

Current squad[edit]

The Kamaishi Seawaves squad for the 2023-24 season is:^[3]

Kamaishi Seawaves squad
Props Yusuke Yamada Soichiro Inada Flyn Yates Shodai Osada Taiki Noguchi Makoto Somazawa Atsushi Suzuki Takuya Takahashi Tomoyoshi Oikawa Ryota Tsukada Sei Matsuyama ^REP Riku Takahashi ^REP Hookers Daiki Ito Suguru Aoyaki Naoki Ouno Yuki Go Locks Dallas Tatana Shoji Misaki Sergio Moreira Hamish Dalzell Sotaro Takahashi Ryunosuke Yamada Ben Nee-Nee Yuga Suzuki ^REP	Flankers Ryota Kono Daisuke Musha Taichi Takahashi Sam Henwood Kohei Ishigaki No8s Seta Koroitamana Scrum-halves Atsushi Minami Yohei Murakami Takumi Tokairin Kotaro Furukawa Fly-halves Ryoma Nakamura Joshua Stander Kazushi Ochi	Centres Kaito Funaki Katsuto Hatanaka Osuka-lloyd Murata Darius Thomas Gerdus van der Walt Mosese Tonga* Kaisei Takai ^REP Wingers Syo Kataoka Ryuji Abe Kodai Ono(c) Taisei Fukkoshi Jamie Henry Fullbacks Ryo Kikkawa Cameron Bailey Ken Chiba Daiki Kon ^REP Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

The following former Kamaishi Seawaves players became Japanese internationals:^[4]

^ "Overview of Kamaishi City". Kamaishi City Council. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
^ Nakagawa, Fumiyuki (23 May 2011). "Rugby squad cheers up quake-hit Kamaishi". Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
^ "Kamaishi Seawaves Members" (in Japanese). Kamaishi Seawaves. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ "Une grande équipe historique japonaise: Kamaishi Seawaves". Japon Rugby (in French). Retrieved 17 September 2017.

v t e Kamaishi Seawaves – current squad
Forwards	Sam Henwood Soichiro Inada Daiki Ito Ryota Kono Seta Koroitamana Kota Kumamoto Shoji Misaki Sergio Moreira Daisuke Musha Yuta Nakano Ben Nee-Nee Toshihiro Nishii Taiki Noguchi Naoki Ono Shohei Osada Makoto Somazawa Atsushi Suzuki Takuya Takahashi Sotaro Takahashi Dallas Tatana Shun Terawaki Ryota Tsukada Ryunosuke Yamada Tatsuji Yoshida
Backs	Ryuji Abe Cameron Bailey Ken Chiba Taisei Fukikoshi Shuta Fukushi Kaito Funaki Katsuto Hatamaka Kohei Ishigaki Ryo Kataoka Osuka Lloyd-Murata Atsushi Minami Yohei Murakami Ryoma Nakamura Kodai Ono Gen Sasaki Yujiro Sasaki Hikaru Shimoyama Joshua Stander Yuki Sugahara Darius Thomas Takumi Tokairin Gerdus van der Walt
Coach	Yasuo Suda