5 sports personalities who made sacrifices in their careers for religious practices

4) William Hopoate

William Hopoate in action during a match

William Hopoate is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who represents Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He gave up two years of his career when he was 20 to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Letter-day Saints.

He has now currently made an understanding with his team Canterbury Bulldogs that he is not going to play or train on Sunday.

His playing positions are the centre, fullback and wing. Hopoate is the son of John Hopoate, who is a former professional Rugby player and a boxer.

On 5th June 2011, Hopoate was called up to play the State of Origin for New South Wales. He thus became the second youngest player to play for New South Wales and helped New South Wales level the three-game series 1-1.