Kane Barrett- What a Lad

What a Lad

When we talk about the greatest rugby family in this country ever, it's almost impossible to go past the Barretts. Kevin 'Smylie' Barrett was a Taranaki legend who also played for the Hurricanes, Beauden is a 100 game All Black, RWC winner and 2 x World Player of the year, Scott has captained the Crusaders to 4 Super Rugby titles and is the current Captain of the All Blacks, Jordie at just 27 has racked up over 50 games for the All Blacks and dominated where ever he plays. Kane was tracking the same path before 2 significant head injuries forced him to retire at just 22 years old.

It was awesome to sit down with Kane and talk through where he is at now and how he looks back on his career, some bits that stood out for me were..

• The battle between the Barrett brothers to be the Alpha growing up
• How Kane would fire up the Francis Douglas 1st XV side, once resulting in a yellow card
• The time Kane picked up his coach Neil Barns as a 16yo and dropped him on his head
• His pathway into NZ Schools for 2 years, Taranaki and the Blues
• What forced Kane into retirement and how hard that was to deal with
• How he looks at his brothers successful careers
• His new life of the farm
• And heaps more!

This was such an incredible insight from such a champion lad, you can only admire the way Kane has gone about his life post footy and it was so cool to hear about his journey.