Jake Paringatai

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2013}}

{{Infobox rugby biography

| name = Jake Paringatai

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1980|4|13}}

| birth_place = Paraparaumu, New Zealand

| height = {{height|m=1.85}}

| weight = {{convert|106|kg|stlb|abbr=on}}

| school = Kāpiti College

| university =

| ru_position = Loose forward

| repyears1 = 2004–06

| repteam1 = Maori All Blacks

| years1 = 2007–08

| years2 = 2009–12

| clubs1 = Munster

| clubs2 = Fukuoka Sanix Blues

| points1 = 0

| points2 = 10

| apps1 = 2

| apps2 = 30

| super1 = {{Rut|Crusaders}}

| super2 = {{Rut|Highlanders}}

| superyears1 = 2007

| superyears2 = 2013

| province1 = Northland

| province2 = Poverty Bay

| provinceyears1 = 2004–07, 2013

| provinceyears2 = 2014–

| ru_clubupdate =

| superapps1 = 4

| superapps2 = 6

| superpoints1 = 0

| superpoints2 = 0

| super14update =

| provinceapps1 = 53

| provinceapps2 =

| provincepoints1 = 30

| provinceapps3 =

| ru_provinceupdate =

| repcaps1 = 5

| reppoints1 = 5

| ru_ntupdate = 18 June 2006

}}

Jake Paringatai (born 13 April 1980) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a loose forward. Paringati currently plays for Poverty Bay in the Heartland Championship.{{Cite web|url=http://gisborneherald.co.nz/localsport/2365314-135/unfinished-business|title=Jake Paringatai available for Heartland|website=Gisborne Herald|access-date=10 July 2017}} He has played Super Rugby for the {{Rut|Highlanders}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thehighlanders.co.nz/our-team/player-profiles/59-pariingatai|title=Jake Paringatai Highlanders Player Profile|accessdate=3 November 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.radiosport.co.nz/news/sprug/1007899904-highlanders-name-2013-squad|title=Highlanders name 2013 squad|date=31 October 2012|accessdate=3 November 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223050543/http://www.radiosport.co.nz/news/sprug/1007899904-highlanders-name-2013-squad|archivedate=23 February 2014}} and the Crusaders.{{Cite web|url=https://crusaders.co.nz/the-team/past-players|title=Crusaders: 1996-2016|website=crusaders.co.nz|access-date=10 July 2017}}

Paringatai also formally represented Northland, Munster{{Cite web|url=http://munsterrugby.ie/2007/11/21/introducing-jake-paringatai/|title=Introducing – Jake Paringatai|date=2007|website=Munster|access-date=10 July 2017}} and Fukuoka Sanix Blues.

Problems off the field earlier in his career, which included breaches of team protocol and culminated in a criminal charge when he was found guilty of groping a woman inside a bar during 2007 where as a result was fined $12,500,{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/1757407/Former-Crusader-fined-over-grope|title=Former Crusader fined over grope|website=Stuff|access-date=10 July 2017}} curtailed any aspirations he may have had of achieving higher honours, of which he had previously been touted for.{{cite web | url=http://rugbylinks.co.uk/super-rugby-profile-highlanders-jake-paringatai-519.html | title=Super Rugby Profile: Highlanders – Jake Paringatai | accessdate=23 January 2013 }}