Paul Emerick at Parma
Ulster Rugby has today confirmed that Paul Emerick (30) will be joining the club on a short-term contract (3 months) as a direct replacement for the injured Andrew Trimble.
Trimble sustained a finger injury whilst on tour with Ireland earlier this summer and is not expected to return to rugby until mid to end October.
With important Magners League and Heineken Cup fixtures between now and then, Ulster have recruited experienced international Emerick to provide cover for the outside backs.
Emerick has extensive experience of European rugby having played for both Newport Gwent Dragons and Italian club side Parma and has been capped for the USA Eagles over 30 times, most recently in the summer’s Churchill Cup campaign. He will link up with Ulster next week.
Ulster Rugby is also delighted to announce that Adam D’Arcy, the Australian fullback who has been on trial with the club has agreed a one year contract. D’Arcy made an impressive debut against Leeds last weekend and his addition completes Ulster’s professional playing squad for 2010-11.
Paul Emerick (born January 24, 1980) is a USA international rugby player. In 2008 Emerick joined Italian club Overmach Parma from Welsh regional side Newport Gwent Dragons. His position is centre or wing. Emerick played his university rugby with the Northern Iowa Panthers, then moved into senior rugby with the Chicago Lions. He moved to Italian rugby in the 2004-05 season joining Amatori Catania and then to Overmach Parma the following season. In the summer of 2006 Emerick completed a move to Celtic League side Newport Gwent Dragons, the side he helped knock out of the Heineken Cup in a playoff a few months earlier with Overmach Parma.
Emerick was first capped by the USA Eagles in April 2003 against Spain and as of January 2009 Emerick has been capped 31 times scoring 8 tries (40 points).
Emerick received a yellow card in the closing minutes of the Eagles’ 2007 World Cup match against England for a spear tackle on England’s Olly Barkley which sent the English flyhalf flipping through the air, landing dangerously around his head. Emerick was subsequently suspended for five weeks, ruling him out of the remaining World Cup campaign.He was again suspended for ten weeks in 2009 following the second RWCQ match between the USA Eagles and Canada. In the 27th minute he kicked Canadian center DTH Van Der Merwe in the head.
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