15 Facts About David Niu

David Niu later served as president of AFL Global, an organization promoting arena football.

David Niu was one of the founders of the United States national rugby league team, and played on the USA Eagles national rugby union team, appearing in the 1999 Rugby World Cup.

David Niu attended James Cook Boys Technology High School in nearby Kogarah.

David Niu played rugby union for St George Rugby Union Club from 1984 to 1989, playing a total of 250 first division games.

David Niu represented Sydney, the New South Wales Waratahs and was a member of the Australian Barbarians, and captained the Australian College and University teams from 1984 to 1988.

David Niu played for St George for two seasons, appearing in a total of nineteen games and scoring two tries and one field goal.

David Niu later played for the Villeneuve Leopards in France, and had spells with the Bramley and Bradford Bulls in the United Kingdom before retiring.

In 1991, David Niu met his future wife Donna Camac while on a St George team retreat in Hawaii.

David Niu gained a release from the final years of his contract with the Dragons and relocated to her hometown of Philadelphia, where he took a job as a teacher at the Glen Mills Schools, a reform school for court-referred youth with an aptitude for sports.

In 1997 David Niu was one of the founders of Super League America, the first major attempt to organize a domestic rugby league competition in the United States, and served as the new league's executive director.

On top of serving as head of Super League America, David Niu was player-coach for the Glen Mills Bulls, the most dominant team in the league.

In 2009 David Niu was involved in a proposed American professional rugby league competition, the National Rugby League USA, though this failed to get off the ground.

David Niu was heavily involved in planning the Atlantic Cup tournament, beginning in 2009, and in the United States being awarded the qualifying tournament for the final berth in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.

David Niu has served as head coach for the USA Tomahawks on three separate occasions.

In February 2013, David Niu resigned from the AMNRL to take a position as president of AFL Global.