San Mateo, California native Line Latu played in Major League Rugby between 2023-2024. He represented the Houston SaberCats for his entire MLR career.
Latu played gridiron football through highschool at a variety of positions and continued playing at the College of San Mateo, where he captained the team in 2018 before transferring to Eastern Michigan University where he played wide receiver. He joined the Colorado XO program for crossover athletes in 2020 and participated in a tryout with the LA Giltinis in 2021. Unfortunately, Latu was involved in a car accident shortly after that put his rugby career on hold for 10 months.
Post recovery he returned to the Colorado XO program (Now the American Raptors) and played with the USA Falcons in 2022 in South America. He featured prominently in the American Raptors’ inaugural Super Rugby Americas (SLAR) campaign and was the only Raptor to feature in SLAR’s Team of the Season for 2023. Following the conclusion of the Raptor’s SLAR season, Latu was picked up by the Houston SaberCats late in the season as an injury reserve. No announcement from the SaberCats meant that a few eyebrows were raised when Latu was featured in the SaberCats’ starting XV for their 2023 Western Eliminator match against the Seattle Seawolves.
On 18th October 2023, the Houston SaberCats announced the return of Line Latu for the 2024 MLR season, where he scored 2 tries in 10 games (5 starts) as the SaberCats finished as the top team of the regular season with a 14-2 record, before being stunned by the Dallas Jackals in the Western Conference Semifinals. Following the 2024 season on 14th August 2024, Anthem RC announced that they had acquired Latu, along with scrumhalf Carlo de Nysschen, from the SaberCats in exchange for a 2025 International Player Slot.