Koch Marx

Koch Marx
Personal information
Full name Koch Peter Marx
Born (1994-01-21) 21 January 1994
Johannesburg, South Africa
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 94 kg (14 st 11 lb)
School(s) attended Hoërskool Alberton
Club information
Playing position Centre / Winger
Current club Lions / Golden Lions XV
Youth career
2012–2015 Golden Lions
Amateur team(s)
Years Team
2015 Wits 5 (15)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Pts)†
2016–present Golden Lions XV 9 (20)
2016–present Lions 1 (0)
2016–present Golden Lions 4 (10)
Representative team(s)‡
2012 South Africa Schools 0 (0)

* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 25 October 2016.
† Appearances (Points).

‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 12 July 2016.

Koch Peter Marx (born 21 January 1994) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the Lions Super Rugby team and the Golden Lions XV Currie Cup team.[1] He can play as a centre or a winger.

Rugby career

Schools rugby

Marx was born in Johannesburg and grew up in Alberton, where he attended Hoërskool Alberton. In 2012, he was selected to represent the Golden Lions at the premier South African high school rugby union tournament, the Under-18 Craven Week held in Port Elizabeth, starting all three of their matches as the outside centre. He was also selected in a South Africa Schools squad that hosted their counterparts from France, Wales and England in an Under-18 International Series, but failed to feature in any of the matches.[2]

Youth and Varsity Shield rugby

After school, he joined the Golden Lions Academy and was named in the Golden Lions U19 squad that participated in the 2013 Under-19 Provincial Championship.[3] He started all twelve of their matches during the regular season, scoring five tries. These tries came in the home and away matches against both the Leopards U19[4][5] and Western Province U19[6][7] and their final match of the season at home to Border U21,[8] as the Lions finished in second position on the log to qualify for the semi-finals.[9] Marx started their 27–25 victory over Sharks U19 in the semi-final[10] as well as the final, where his side lost 23–35 to trans-Jukskei rivals Blue Bulls U19.[11]

Marx was named in the Golden Lions' squad for the 2014 Vodacom Cup, but didn't appear in any matches for the team. In the latter half of the year, he established himself in the Golden Lions U21 squad that participated in the 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship, starting all thirteen of their matches during the competition. It proved to be a very prolific season for Koch as he scored a total of eleven tries, the joint-second most in Group A of the competition.[12] His try-scoring spell started in their second match, when he got two tries in an 82–6 victory over Border U21.[13] After a try in their victory over Blue Bulls U21 in Round Five,[14] he got a hat-trick in a 113–3 win over Border,[15] a single try against Western Province U21[16] and two tries against Free State U21[17] in consecutive matches. He got another in their penultimate match of the season against the Leopards U21s,[18] as his side finished in third position to qualify for the title play-offs.[19] The last of his tries during the competition came in their semi-final match against the Blue Bulls, but it proved futile as the team from Pretoria won 23–19 to eliminate Koch's side from the competition.[20]

At the start of 2015, Marx made five appearances for Wits in the Varsity Shield competition.[21] He scored a try in their match against eventual champions UKZN Impi in a 40–26 victory[21] and scored two tries against TUT Vikings a week later.[22] He helped Wits finish top of the log,[23] but didn't play in the final which UKZN won 29–24.[24] He returned to the Under-21 side for their 2015 season, making ten starts and scoring tries against Blue Bulls U21,[25] Free State U21[26] and Eastern Province U21[27] during the regular season as the Lions secured the final play-off spot by finishing fourth,[28] and scored a try in a semi-final defeat for the second year in a row as Western Province U21 won 43–20 to progress to the final at the Lions' expense.[29]

Golden Lions / Lions

Marx made his first class debut on 8 April 2016, starting the Golden Lions XV's opening match in the 2016 Currie Cup qualification series, a 23–27 home defeat to the Border Bulldogs.[30] In his second match, against Namibian side the Welwitschias in Windhoek, Marx scored his first senior try in the 32nd minute in a 66–12 victory.[31] Further tries followed in another defeat against a Free State XV,[32] and in victories over a Sharks XV[33] and the Griffons.[34]

In July 2016, Marx was named in the starting line-up for the Lions Super Rugby team for their final match of the regular season against the Jaguares in Buenos Aires.[35]

References

  1. ↑ "SA Rugby Player Profile – Koch Marx". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "SA Rugby Squad – South Africa : 2012 SA Schools 2012". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "SA Rugby Squad – MTN Golden Lions : 2013 Absa Under 19 Competition". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – MTN Golden Lions 32-27 Leopards". South African Rugby Union. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Leopards 27-34 MTN Golden Lions". South African Rugby Union. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – MTN Golden Lions 31-26 DHL Western Province". South African Rugby Union. 24 August 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – DHL Western Province 13-21 MTN Golden Lions". South African Rugby Union. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – MTN Golden Lions 47-17 Border". South African Rugby Union. 12 October 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  9. ↑ "SA Rugby Log – 2013 Absa Under 19 Competition". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – MTN Golden Lions 27-25 The Sharks U19". South African Rugby Union. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  11. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – MTN Golden Lions 23-35 Vodacom Blue Bulls". South African Rugby Union. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  12. ↑ "SA Rugby Try Scorers – 2014 Absa Under 21 Competition". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  13. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Border U21 6-82 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  14. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Golden Lions U21 41-30 Blue Bulls U21". South African Rugby Union. 9 August 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  15. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Golden Lions U21 113-3 Border U21". South African Rugby Union. 16 August 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  16. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Western Province U21 50-31 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 23 August 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  17. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Free State U21 12-52 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 30 August 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  18. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Leopards U21 10-48 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  19. ↑ "SA Rugby Log – 2014 Absa Under 21 Competition". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  20. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Blue Bulls U21 23-19 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  21. 1 2 "SA Rugby Match Centre – FNB WITS 40-26 FNB UKZN". South African Rugby Union. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  22. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – FNB TUT 5-50 FNB WITS". South African Rugby Union. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  23. ↑ "SA Rugby Log – 2015 FNB Varsity Shield presented by Steinhoff International". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  24. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – FNB WITS 24-29 FNB UKZN". South African Rugby Union. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  25. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Golden Lions U21 55-15 Blue Bulls U21". South African Rugby Union. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  26. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Golden Lions U21 36-33 Free State U21". South African Rugby Union. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  27. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – EP Kings U21 14-73 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  28. ↑ "SA Rugby Log – 2015 Absa Under 21 Competition". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  29. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Western Province U21 43-20 Golden Lions U21". South African Rugby Union. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  30. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Xerox Golden Lions XV 23-27 Border". South African Rugby Union. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  31. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Windhoek Draught Welwitschias 12-66 Xerox Golden Lions XV". South African Rugby Union. 16 April 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  32. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Xerox Golden Lions XV 15-29 Toyota Free State XV". South African Rugby Union. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  33. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Cell C Sharks XV 16-53 Xerox Golden Lions XV". South African Rugby Union. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  34. ↑ "SA Rugby Match Centre – Xerox Golden Lions XV 66-19 Down Touch Griffons". South African Rugby Union. 2 July 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  35. ↑ "Lions off to Argentina" (Press release). Lions. 12 July 2016. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
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