His representative career started with the
New Zealand Schoolboys team, before being included in New Zealand's Under 21 team in 2004. He won the
Under 21 Rugby World Championship with that team in 2004.
Hurricanes and Wellington In 2005 he was a member of the
Hurricanes Super 12 (now Super Rugby) wider training group. He debuted for
Wellington in the 2005 against the
2005 touring British & Irish Lions, and played for them in that year's
National Provincial Championship. He was selected for the Hurricanes squad for the
2006 Super 14 and eventually forced his way into the starting line-up.
Junior All Blacks Following his Super 14 form in 2006 he was selected for the
Junior All Blacks, and played for the team as they won the
2006 IRB Pacific 5 Nations. After another successful
2006 Air New Zealand Cup — where he propped both sides of the
scrum, he returned to the Hurricanes for the
2007 Super 14.
All Blacks Following the 2007 Super 14 he was selected in the
All Blacks training squad, and was one of only two non-
capped players in the squad. His inclusion was the biggest surprise of the squad – as he was picked ahead of capped props
Clarke Dermody and
John Afoa. Ultimately, he was the final cut from the
2007 Rugby World Cup squad, as the previously injured
Greg Somerville was declared fit to play and took up the final place in the squad.
Agen After the 2011 Rugby World Cup, Schwalger agreed to sign a deal with French rugby club
SU Agen.
Return to Hurricanes and Wellington In May 2013, he signed a two-year deal to rejoin for the
2013 ITM Cup and also played for the since the
2013 Super Rugby season. ==References==