San Diego Legion re-signed Luke Burton for the 2024 Major League Rugby season. The 30-year-old center/fullback/flyhalf is 5’11” and 205 lbs.
Luke played 111 minutes in 4 matches, starting once, and scored 24 points (1 try, 3 penalty goals, 5 conversions) for San Diego Legion in 2023.
Luke played in 14 matches with the Giltinis in 2022 scored 20 conversions and made 4 penalty goals. In 2021 he played 1150 minutes in 16 matches, starting 14, and scored 40 points (14 conversions and 4 penalty goals).
He played for San Diego Legion in the pandemic-shortened 2000 season, playing 400 minutes, starting 5 matches, and scoring 38 points (11 conversions and 5 penalty goals.
Luke is from Perth, Western Australia. He attended Hale School where he played rugby and played age-grade rugby in Western Australia. He also played on the Australia Under-20s in the IRB Junior World Championship in 2013 in France and 2014 in New Zealand.
He played for Western Force from 2014-2017 and earned 25 Super Rugby caps. He also played for Perth Spirit from 2014-2016, making 11 National Rugby Championship appearances. From 2017 to 2019 he played in the France Pro 2 with Biarritz Olympique, making 31 appearances.
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