Bernado Botha

Bernado Botha

Personal information
Full name	Bernado Carl Botha
Born	(1988-07-04) 4 July 1988 Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	92 kg (14 st 7 lb)
School(s) attended	Hoërskool Florida, Roodepoort
University	University of Johannesburg
Club information
Playing position	Winger
Current club	Pumas
Youth career
2004	SWD Eagles
2006–09	Golden Lions
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
2008	UJ	10	(20)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Pts)†
2008–10	Golden Lions	8	(20)
2010	Lions	2	(0)
2013	Griffons	5	(0)
2014–	Pumas	23	(37)
Representative team(s)‡
2007	S.A. Under-19		()
2010–13	S.A. Sevens		()
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 9 October 2015. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 28 March 2014.

Bernado Carl Botha (born (1988-07-04)4 July 1988 in Oudtshoorn) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the Pumas. He has been playing first class rugby since 2009 and was a regular member of the S.A. Sevens team between 2010 and 2013. His regular position is winger or fulback.

Career

Youth and Varsity rugby

Botha represented South Western Districts at the 2004 Under-16 Grant Khomo Week. He then moved to Gauteng and was included in the Golden Lions squad for the 2006 Under-18 Craven Week tournament. The following year, he received a call-up to the South African Under-19 squad for the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship in Ireland.

He continued to represent the Golden Lions at youth level, playing for their Under-19s in national championships in 2007 and for the Under-21s in 2008 and 2009. He also played for UJ in the 2008 and 2010 Varsity Cup competitions, scoring four tries in eight appearances.

Senior career

Botha was included in the Golden Lions squad for the 2008 Vodacom Cup competition, but failed to make an appearance, despite being named as a substitute for their match against the Natal Wildebeest.

Once again named in their Vodacom Cup squad in 2009, Botha duly made his first class debut by starting in their match against the Pumas in Randfontein. He made seven starts in totao and weighed in with four tries during that tournament.

Following two more appearances in the 2010 Vodacom Cup, Botha was then included in the Lions squad for the 2010 Super 14 season. He made two substitute appearances, against the Force in Johannesburg and against the Cheetahs in Welkom.

Sevens rugby

Bernado Botha

Medal record
Representing South Africa
Men's Rugby sevens
World Games
	2013 Cali	Team

In 2010, Botha joined the South African Sevens squad and appeared in the Dubai and South African legs of the 2010–11 IRB Sevens World Series. In October 2011, he signed a two-year deal with the South African Rugby Union to represent the sevens side and became a regular for them in the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons of the IRB Sevens World Series.

Griffons

At the conclusion of the 2012–13 IRB Sevens World Series, Botha made a return to fifteens rugby and made five appearances for Welkom-based side Griffons during the 2013 Currie Cup First Division.

Pumas

He then joined the Pumas prior to the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition. He was a member of the Pumas side that won the Vodacom Cup for the first time in 2015, beating Western Province 24–7 in the final. Botha made eight appearances during the season.