Pama Petia

Pama Raymond Petia (born 24 August 1980) is a Samoan former international rugby union player.

Pama Petia

Full name	Pama Raymond Petia
Date of birth	(1980-08-24) 24 August 1980 (age 44)
Height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	250 lb (113 kg)
School	St Paul's Collegiate School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker / No. 8 Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2000 Thames Valley 10 (20) 2003–09 Hawke's Bay 29 (10) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2003 Samoa 1 (0)

Educated at St Paul's Collegiate School in Hamilton, Petia played his rugby as a loose forward and was capped once by Samoa, against Namibia in Windhoek in 2003.^[1] He played with Thames Valley and Hawke's Bay.^[2]

Petia received a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for money laundering in 2021, after delivering $2 million in cash to a bikie as part of a West Australian drug-smuggling operation.^[3][4]

See also

• List of Samoa national rugby union players