Jamie Ben Houston (born 5 August 1982)Jamie Houston profile at scrum.com accessed: 19 March 2010 is a retired German international rugby union player, having played for the SC 1880 Frankfurt in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. He most recently was coach of RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga.
He made his debut for Germany in a friendly versus Hong Kong on 12 December 2009. Houston, born in England, qualifies to play for Germany after having spent three years playing in the country for the SC 1880 Frankfurt.Alpencup 2009: Absagenflut vor dem Aufeinandertreffen mit dem Team-Edelweiss totalrugby.de, accessed: 19 March 2010
Houston played in the 2009 German championship final for SC 1880 Frankfurt, which the club won.
After a neck injury, Houston had to retire from the sport in 2010, pursuing his career as a fitness instructor instead, but remaining in Germany.Ex-Nationalspieler Jamie Houston bietet Personal Trainings totalrugby.de, published: 21 October 2010, accessed: 15 December 2010
After a season as coach of the reserve team of SC 1880 Frankfurt, he took over as head coach of RG Heidelberg for Rudolf Finsterer for the 2011–12 season.TotalRugby Wechselbörse 2011/2012 totalrugby.de, accessed: 26 August 2011 At the end of his first season with RGH he was replaced with the club's youth coach Bernd Schöpfel.TotalRugby Wechselbörse 2012/2013 totalrugby.de, accessed: 25 June 2012
Honours
Club German rugby union championship Champions: 2008, 2009 Runners up: 2007, 2010 German rugby union cup Winners: 2009
Stats Jamie Houston's personal statistics in club and international rugby:Jamie Houston profile at totalrugby.de accessed: 19 March 2010
Club Year Club Division Games Tries Con Pen DG Place 2008–09 SC 1880 Frankfurt Rugby-Bundesliga 16 4 0 0 0 1st – Champions 2009–10 15 4 0 0 0 1st – Runners up As of 15 December 2010
National team
European Nations Cup Year Team Competition Games Points Place 2008–2010 Germany European Nations Cup First Division 5 0 6th – Relegated
Friendlies & other competitions Year Team Competition Games Points 2009 Germany Friendly 1 0 As of 15 December 2010
References
External links Jamie Houston at scrum.com Jamie Houston at totalrugby.de