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Jackson Garden-Bacho?playing for Northern United in April 2014.
Update: Named in the NZ U20 squad for the IRB Junior World Championship in Auckland in June 2014.
Jackson Garden-Bachop joined Northern United from Scots College at the start of 2013. The inside back made the New Zealand Secondary Schools team in 2012 and was named the College Sport Wellington boys' rugby player of the year. The previous five winners of this award were Ardie Savea, TJ Perenara, Lima Sopoaga, Julian Savea and Buxton Popoalii - all? Super Rugby players. He didn’t miss a single match in four seasons of playing in the Scots College first XV.
Name: Jackson Garden-Bachop
Club: Northern United
Playing position: First five-eighth, second five-eighth
Secondary School attended: Scots College
First rugby club played for: London Irish
Earliest rugby memory: Watching my dad [former international Stephen Bachop] playing at the 1999 Rugby World Cup playing for Samoa on my birthday.
Playing position growing up: Anywhere in the backs
Favourite memory from First XV rugby: Either winning the Presbyterian Cup Quadrangular in 2012 or beating Wellington College 19-17 in 2010.
Favourite player: Daniel Carter
Favourite non-rugby sports person: Michael Jordan
The good and the bad about training: The good: being able to try and learn new things; the bad: fitness work
Hobbies and interests outside of rugby: Playing volleyball; playing the guitar
| Date | Competition | Rnd | Pos | Team 1 | Score 1 | Team 2 | Score 2 | T | C | P | DG | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-30 | Swindale Shield Premier | 8 | 15 | Norths: Premier | 15 | Marist St Pats: Premier | 64 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2016-03-25 | Swindale Shield Premier | 1 | 15 | Norths: Premier | 32 | Petone: Premier | 28 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 2015-07-18 | Hardham Cup | 7 | 15 | Norths: Premier | 22 | Avalon: Premier | 46 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2015-07-11 | Hardham Cup | 6 | 13 | Norths: Premier | 23 | Poneke: Premier | 27 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| 2015-07-04 | Hardham Cup | 5 | 15 | Norths: Premier | 18 | Upper Hutt Rams: Upper Hutt Ra ... | 23 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 2015-06-27 | Hardham Cup | 4 | 13 | Norths: Premier | 31 | Pare-Plim: Premier | 14 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 2015-06-20 | Hardham Cup | 3 | 13 | Norths: Premier | 31 | Tawa: Premier Reserve | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2015-06-13 | Hardham Cup | 2 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 17 | Petone: Premier Reserve | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015-06-06 | Hardham Cup | 1 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 33 | J'ville: Premier | 62 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2015-05-30 | Swindale Shield Premier | 11 | 15 | Norths: Premier | 33 | Avalon: Premier | 31 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 2015-05-23 | Swindale Shield Premier | 10 | 15 | Norths: Premier | 24 | Marist St Pats: Premier | 43 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 2015-05-16 | Swindale Shield Premier | 9 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 8 | Tawa: Premier | 38 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015-05-09 | Swindale Shield Premier | 8 | 15 | Norths: Premier | 30 | Upper Hutt Rams: Upper Hutt Ra ... | 31 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| 2015-05-02 | Swindale Shield Premier | 7 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 26 | J'ville: Premier | 24 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 2015-04-25 | Swindale Shield Premier | 6 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 55 | Pare-Plim: Premier | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 2015-04-18 | Swindale Shield Premier | 5 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 26 | Wellington: The Axemen | 29 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2015-04-11 | Swindale Shield Premier | 4 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 30 | Poneke: Premier | 24 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 2015-04-04 | Swindale Shield Premier | 3 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 11 | Petone: Premier | 26 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2015-03-28 | Swindale Shield Premier | 2 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 7 | HOBM: Premier | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015-03-21 | Swindale Shield Premier | 1 | 10 | Norths: Premier | 34 | Wainui: Premier | 34 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 |