Nick Beal
Birth name | Nicholas David Beal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 2 December 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 14 st 10 lb (93 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicholas David Beal (born 2 December 1970 in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire) is a rugby union player who played at Fullback for Northampton Saints, England and the Lions.
Career
Club
Beal spent his whole professional career at Northampton Saints, and captained the squad that won the Middlesex Sevens trophy in 2003. He missed out on their victory in the 2000 Heineken Cup Final due to injury. He retired in 2004.
International
Beal was a part of the England team that won the World Sevens title in 1993. He also joined the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa.
Personal life
Beal is married with two sons. He attended Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe where he was schoolmates with Northampton and England teammate Matt Dawson.
After retiring he worked as a financial advisor. In 2007 he was appointed a non-executive director of the Saints' board.
- 1970 births
- Living people
- British & Irish Lions rugby union players from England
- England international rugby sevens players
- England international rugby union players
- English rugby union players
- Male rugby sevens players
- Northampton Saints players
- People educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
- People from Howden
- Rugby union fullbacks
- Rugby union players from Yorkshire
- English rugby union biography stubs