Marcus Smith

Club

Harlequins

Position

Fly-half

Nationality

England

Date of birth

1999-02-14

Birthplace

Manila, Philippines

Height

1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

82 kg (12 st 13 lb; 181 lb)

Marcus Sebastian Smith (born 14 February 1999) is a Filipino-born English professional rugby union player currently playing for the Gallagher Premiership side Harlequins. He plays at fly-half.

Background
Born in the Philippines to a British father and a Filipina mother, Smith picked up the game of rugby union at the age of seven with Centaurs RFC when his family moved to Singapore. Later, Smith received a sports scholarship to attend Brighton College and went on to captain the school's 1st XV. The young fly-half was named Player of the Tournament at the 2016 St Joseph's Rugby Festival.

Smith is the second youngest debutant featured in the Aviva Premiership at 18 years and 200 days old whose record is behind George Ford when Ford made his league debut for Leicester Tigers in 2010.

Club career
Smith contributed ten points from the tee in Harlequins U18s Academy Final win over Sale Sharks U18s and he played in five of the fixtures during the 2016–2017 season and scored two tries along the way, one against London Irish and once against Saracens.

The young fly-half previously played for Harlequins at the 2016 Singha Premiership Rugby Sevens.

In March 2017, Smith was promoted from Harlequins Elite Player Development Group (EPDG) up to the full-time Academy starting in June.

Having just joined the academy side, Smith was named in the 12-man senior squad alongside with another Brighton College graduate Calum Waters for the 2017 Singha Premiership Rugby Sevens at Franklin's Gardens. Smith had a stand-out evening on the first day of the tournament by scoring two tries against London Irish and eventually assisted Harlequins to reach the club Semi-final before losing out to Newcastle Falcons.

On 2 September 2017, Smith made his professional debut wearing the number 10 jersey for the senior Harlequins side in the Aviva Premiership London Double Header fixture against London Irish at Twickenham Stadium. Two weeks later, Smith made a man-of-the-match performance against Wasps and subsequently ended the home side's 22-match winning streak at Ricoh Arena.

International career
Smith made his first appearance for England with a try in the U16s match victory against Wales in April 2015. He later represented England at U18s and at the 2017 Six Nations Under 20s Championship.

In May 2017, Smith took part in one of the training sessions with the England elite senior squad during their 3-day camp held at Brighton College in preparation for the Old Mu