# Skipper Badenhorst

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Namibia international rugby union player

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Rugby player

Born Rudolf Scheepers Badenhorst (1978-12-01) 1 December 1978 (age 47) Oudtshoorn, South Africa Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) Weight 106 kg (234 lb) Rugby union career Position Hooker Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 2000 Falcons 52 - Pumas 33 (20) - Sharks (Currie Cup) 53 (15) Super Rugby Years Team Apps (Points) 2003 Stormers 4 (0) – Sharks 20 (0) – Cheetahs -- (0) – Bulls 2 (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2007 Namibia 2 (0)

**Skipper Badenhorst** (born 1 December 1978 in [Oudtshoorn](/source/Oudtshoorn), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)) is a [rugby union](/source/Rugby_union) player for the [Cheetahs](/source/Cheetahs_(rugby_union)) in the [Super Rugby](/source/Super_Rugby) competition and [Namibia](/source/Namibia_national_rugby_union_team). He plays as a [hooker](/source/Hooker_(rugby_union)).

## Career

Skipper matriculated in 1996 from [Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool](/source/Afrikaanse_Ho%C3%ABr_Seunskool) also known as [Affies](/source/Affies). The team of 1996 won all 27 of its matches, accounting for such opponents as [Maritzburg College](/source/Maritzburg_College), [Grey College](/source/Grey_College%2C_Bloemfontein) and [Pretoria Boys High School](/source/Pretoria_Boys_High_School). The score against Boys’ High was a record 62-13. That team won the Beeld Trophy (the descendant of the Administrator's Cup and the Director's Trophy) for a record third successive year.

He played in the South African Under 21 team of 1999 alongside [John Smit](/source/John_Smit) and fellow alumni [Johan Roets](/source/Johan_Roets), Eugene Marx and Sarel Eloff. This team went on to win the equivalent of the under 21 world cup. Skipper has played provincial rugby for the [Valke](/source/Falcons_(rugby_team)) and [Pumas](/source/Pumas_(Currie_Cup)) before moving on to the Sharks. He has played [Super Rugby](/source/Super_Rugby) for the [Stormers](/source/Stormers), the [Sharks](/source/Sharks_(Super_rugby_franchise)) and the Cheetahs.

## References

- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080720003026/http://www.rugby365.com/schools/profiles/585353.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20080720003026/http://www.rugby365.com/schools/profiles/585353.htm)

## External links

- [Sharks profile](https://web.archive.org/web/20091104171550/http://www.sharksrugby.co.za/content.aspx?id=17458)

Squads v t e Namibia squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup Forwards Badenhorst Burger Du Plessis Du Toit Esterhuyse Jantjies Kamonga Kazombiaze Lensing Lintvelt MacKenzie Meyer Nieuwenhuis Redelinghuys Schreuder Senekal Van Tonder Visser Backs Africa Bock Botes Drotsky Grobler Langenhoven Losper Mouton Van Zyl Wessels Witbooi Head coach: Husselman

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