Steve Lancaster
New Zealand rugby union player (born 1971)
Stephen Gregory Lancaster (born 4 February 1971) is a New Zealand former professional rugby union player and manager.
Playing career
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.
Administration
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.
“Steve Lancaster” enters the record as new Zealand rugby union player (born 1971). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Steve, Lancaster and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Steve Lancaster” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Steve, Lancaster and Zealand provides the most credible route into that argument.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q130318322. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1992, 1997 and 2000.
Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Steve Lancaster”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Steve Lancaster primary sources, Steve Lancaster archive and Steve research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Steve Lancaster”?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Steve Lancaster” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.