BG Uys’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African rugby player
Is Athlete
Rugby union player
From South Africa
Type Sports
Gender male
Birth

20 June 1988, Heidelberg, Western Cape

Age 32 years

Burrie Gildenhuys “BG” Uys is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the Free State Cheetahs. His regular position is prop.

Career

Youth

He came through the ranks of the Leopards, playing for them at Under-18 and Under-21 from 2007 to 2009.

Varsity Rugby

He played Varsity Cup rugby for NWU Pukke between 2008 and 2010, which led to his inclusion in the South African Students teams in 2008 and 2009.

Leopards

He made his Currie Cup debut for the Leopards in 2010 against the Blue Bulls and became a first team regular over the next four seasons, making 66 first class appearances in the Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup competitions.

Eastern Province Kings / Southern Kings

In 2013, while still contracted to the Leopards, Uys joined the Kings training group prior to the 2013 Super Rugby season, but was later released to the Leopards’ 2013 Vodacom Cup squad.

He played for the Leopards for the remainder of 2013 before joining the Eastern Province Kings for 2014. He made one appearances for the Eastern Province Kings during the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition, a 3–31 defeat to the Free State XV in Cradock. In June 2014, he was selected on the bench for the Eastern Province Kings side to face Wales during a tour match during a 2014 incoming tour. He came on as a second-half replacement as the Kings suffered a 12–34 defeat. He made three appearances for the EP Kings on their return to the Premier Division of the Currie Cup, which included starting in their final match of the season against the Pumas to secure their first win of the season after nine consecutive defeats.

Cheetahs

In July 2014, Cheetahs coach Naka Drotské revealed that Uys would move to the Bloemfontein-based Super Rugby side for the 2014 Super Rugby season. This was later confirmed when he was named in the Cheetahs’ wider training group prior to the season.

Representative rugby

He also played for a South African Barbarians (North) side that played against England during their 2012 tour of South Africa.

You May Also Like

Keyshia Cole’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Keyshia Cole Net Worth: Keyshia Cole is an American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer who has a net worth of $9.5 million dollars. All three of Keyshia Cole’s albums have gone platinum and she was the star of a popular reality series on BET called, “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is”, from 2006 to 2008. Born Keyshia Cole Gibson on October 15, 1981, in Oakland, California, she gained nationwide acclaim with her 2005 debut album, The Way It Is, which was certified platinum by the RIAA. Keyshia Cole was only two years old when she got adopted by Leon and Yvonne Cole. Blessed with musical talent, she made her first recordings with MC Hammer at the age of 12. By the early 2000s, she started to appear on tracks by various Bay Area artists, including D’Wayne Wiggins and Messy Marv. Cole saw the release of her debut album, The Way It Is, under Interscope/A&M Records, on June 21, 2005. It was the album’s third single “I Should Have Cheated,” that fetched Cole her first widespread R&B success, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. Cole’s second album, Just Like You, went into production shortly after and was eventually released in September 2007. Only four months later it got certified platinum. As for her third studio album, A Different Me, it was released in December 2008 and was also certified platinum. All of her three albums were supported by her record breaking reality/documentary series, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is, which aired on BET from 2006 until 2008. The show gave viewers a close loot at both Cole’s career and family life with her biological mother and sister. 2010 marks the release of her fourth studio album, Calling All Hearts, which was followed by her latest album, Woman to Woman, in 2012. The same year, came to light Cole’s second reality show, Family First.
Read More