TWIN TIME IN COAST RUGBY
AUSTRALIAN sport is filled with great stories of successful twins in teams but Gold Coast rugby siblings Quetyrin Patelesio-Faamausili and Elquanez Faamausili are unique.
We have had the Waugh twins in cricket, the Morris boys in rugby league and even the Fainga’a brothers for the Wallabies, but this duo are different.
What makes the Marymount Primary School students’ story slightly more interesting is that they are male
and female twins picked in the same representative rugby sides.
The 12-year-olds have been selected in the South Coast under-12 rugby union side to play at the Queensland Schools championships next month in Brisbane.
They will also play for the Gold Coast Cyclones in the under-12s tournament in Toowoomba next month.
Boys and girls can play in the same junior teams until they reach a certain
age, their mother, Helen, revealing that Elquanez opted not to join the girls team this year so she could play one final season with her brother Quetyrin.
“This is her last year with her brother, she wanted to have her last year with her brother,” Helen said.
“They’ve played together since they started playing rugby league in the under-8s and now they’re together in rugby union.
“They were shocked (they when they were selected) because a lot of the other kids were quite bigger, they just had to play their own game.”
Quetyrin has shown promise as a speedy inside centre, Elquanez likes to mix it with the forwards as a prop.
But Quetyrin is still protective on the field. “He does act like big brother,” Helen said.
“Some guy held Elquanez in a scrum and he just went over and stood over him like, ‘leave my sister alone’.”