| Full name | Stephen Gregory Lancaster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 4 February 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Gregory Lancaster (born 4 February 1971) is a New Zealand former professional rugby union player and manager.
A native of Auckland and having been educated at St Peters College where he played senior inter-school Rugby Union, Lancaster was a NZ Colts representative lock in 1992 and briefly competed for his home province the following year, before moving down to Canterbury. He was a Crusaders player from 1997 to 2000 and came off the bench in their 1999 Super 12 grand final win over the Highlanders.
Lancaster was the Crusaders high performance manager between 2006 and 2012, then worked in a similar role with Rugby Canada for two years. He was Head of High Performance at Netball New Zealand in 2015 and 2016, before taking up a position with New Zealand Rugby, where he was most recently GM of Community Rugby.