Rugby ATL signed Marno Redelinghuys for the 2020 Major League Rugby season. The 26-year-old flanker will turn 27 this week and is 6’5″ and 240 lbs.
Marno is from Klerksdorp, South Africa and resides in Potchefstroom. He attended Hoërskool Schoonspruit before going to North-West University from 2014-2017 and graduating with a Business Degree. He then moved to Cape Town as a post-graduate at Stellenbosch University and played rugby for the Maties in the Varsity Cup in 2018. Then it was onto Western Province.
Marno’s Senior rugby career began with the Leopards XV in 2015, as well as the Leopards from 2015-2017. During 2018-2019 he played with Western Province in both the Currie Cup and the Rugby Challenge. In 2019 made one Super Rugby appearance with the Stormers against the Golden Lions.
Marno indicated that he is “looking forward to the next few seasons in the MLR as it has been a blast at Rugby ATL for the past few weeks.”