Ken Owens
Ken Owens was born in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom on January 3rd, 1987 and is the Rugby Player. At the age of 37, Ken Owens biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Kenneth James Owens (born 3 January 1987) is a Welsh rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker for the Scarlets and Wales.
Early life
Owens was a fluent Welsh speaker at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin, and he is a Ysgol Gyfun Gyfun Bro Myrddin. He began his career with Carmarthen Athletic RFC before moving to UWIC RFC in 2005.
Club career
In a match against the Glasgow Warriors, Owens made his Scarlets debut towards the end of the 2005–06 season. He left UWIC and began playing for Llanelli RFC, his hometown rugby team. Owens made 47 appearances for the Scarlets in 2006-07, scoring his first goal against Border Reivers in a Celtic League match. Owens sustained a knee injury in 2007, and Samoan hooker Mahonri Schwalger was hired on a short-term deal as his temporary replacement.
Owens signed his third professional deal on March 11 and committed himself to the Scarlets for a further two years.
Owens was selected to play at Number 8 against the Dragons as injury cover on January 5th.
International career
Owens was called up to the Barbarians squad in May 2010, his first match against England coming from him before he had earned his first international cap for Wales. He earned his first game of the season for the Scarlets as a result of his season, as well as improving his line-out throwing skills.
Owens was called up to the Wales squad for the 2010 Six Nations due to injuries to hookers Matthew Rees and Gareth Williams. Following Richard Hibbard's injury, he was called up to Wales' 45-man training squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in June 2011. In Wales' third pool match at the tournament on September 26, 2011, he made his debut for the team, defeating Namibia 8–7.
Owens appeared in all five games as Wales claimed the Grand Slam in 2012.
Owens was selected for the 2015 Rugby World Cup in Wales' 31-man team, but he was forced to leave the bench in the 23-19 quarter final loss to South Africa.
Owens' 50th test was a 20–18 loss to France in the 2017 Six Nations Championship, in which he played the entire game, with the exception of the 20 minutes of injury time at the end of the second half. Owens was later selected for the British & Irish Lions' tour to New Zealand. Owens appeared in six matches on tour, captaining the team's 22–16 loss to the Blues in Auckland and coming off the bench in two of the three test matches against New Zealand. He appeared in 13 minutes of the first test, a 30–15 loss, and 11 minutes of the third test, in which he was suspended for mistakenly offside in the dying minutes, but the All Blacks were eventually punished for a scrum rather than a scrum; the match and the series ended as draws; referee Romain Poite is an acronym that should have spoiled the game.