Trinity College Beenleigh.
Represented Australia on numerous occasions in the field of rifle shooting.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Red Bend Catholic College Forbes 1966-1969.
Played for Canterbury-Bankstown in the then-NSWRL from 1971-1984, including a Premiership-winning season in 1980.
Represented Australia in 13 tests matches.
Represented NSW in the Inaugral State of Origin match in 1980, totalling 4 appearances for the NSW side.
Coaching career included stints as Coach at Halifax (1984-88), Canterbury Bulldogs (1990-97), Melbourne Storm (1998-01), Cronulla Sharks (2002-03), Sydney Roosters (2007) and the Australian team (1999-03).
As Coach, successfully led Canterbury and Melbourne to Premierships (1995 and 1999, respectively) and was twice named Dally M Coach of the Year (1993 and 1998).
Named an inductee of the Halifax Hall of Fame and was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marcellin College Randwick.
Represented Australia as a Freestyle swimmer.
Won Bronze Medal in the 400m Freestyle at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships.
Competed for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Placed 13th in 400m Freestyle and 4th in 200m Freestyle Relay.
Awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 for swimming achievements.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
All Saints Maitland.
Played 191 Games for the Maitland Pickers and named a Top 20 player of all time at that club.
Played seven games for NSW (1955-56) scoring nine tries, and three games for NSW Country Firsts (1955-56 and 1958).
Played five Tests against New Zealand (1956) and made a Kangaroos tour (1956-57).
Went on to coach for another 11 seasons at Gloucester, Scone and Muswellbrook.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marcellin College Bulleen 1964-1968.
International race walker, representing Australia at the Commonwealth Games Representative in 1978 (winning Bronze) and 1982 and at the IAAF World 50 Km Championships in 1976.
Received life membership from Ivanhoe Harriers, Victorian Race Walking Club, Coburg Harriers, Racewalking Australia
Received Merit Award from Athletics Victoria
Awarded Member of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2014
Current Secretary, Australian Centurion Walkers, current Chair, Organising Committee, Coburg 24 Hour Carnival (at time of publication), former Chair, Athletics Australia Out of Stadium Committee, past President, Racewalking Australia, past Secretary, Racewalking Australia, past Victorian Race Walking Club
Marcellin College Bulleen 1956-1959.
Received OAM for services to cricket in 2023.
Life Member of Cricket Victoria (15 years delegate, 12 years Pennant Committee).
Inductee of the Hall of Fame (playing section) of The Cricket Society in England.
Received Life Membership of The Lord’s Taverners (Vic) for fund-raising for disadvantaged sportspeople.
Sacred Heart College Adelaide 1941-1942.
Achieved first Melbourne Cup win at 23 years of age.
Inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1991 as a General Member and was elevated to Legend of Australian Sport in 2008
His twelve Melbourne Cup winners are: ‘Light Fingers’ (1965), ‘Galilee’ (1966), ‘Red Handed’ (1967), ‘Think Big’ (1974 & 1975), ‘Gold and Black’ (1977), ‘Hyperno’ (1979), ‘Kingston Rule’ (1990), ‘Let’s Elope’ (1991), ‘Saintly’ (1996), ‘Rogan Josh’ (1999) and Viewed (2008).
Became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1982 for his services to the racing industry and his tireless promotion of racing to the public.
Received Victoria Racing Media Personality of the Year 1997.
Carried the Olympic torch down the Flemington straight at 2000 Sydney Olympics.
The inaugural member of the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2001.
Presented with Life Membership from the Victorian Racing Club in 2004.
Sacred Heart College Adelaide 2009-2011.
Joined the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the ANZ Championship - the youngest player contracted by a professional team at the age of 16.
Captained the National 21 and Under Team to a silver medal at the Would Youth Netball Cup.
Joined the NSW Swifts in 2016, current co-captain, in the Suncorp Super Netball Competition.
Current member of the Australian Diamonds Netball Squad.
Marcellin College Randwick 1951-1958.
Played first Grade Rugby League for South Sydney 1960-61, Eastern Suburbs in 1962 and North Sydney in 1963.
Awarded Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 1970.
Established Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Research in 1985, which has trained Australian and Overseas young surgeons.
Appointed National Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons in 1989.
Appointed Governor of Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990.
Awarded a Doctorate of Medicine MD from University of NSW in 1991 for Research on the Knee.
Awarded an Order of Australia OAM in 1995 for Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine.
Accepted into the “Hall of Fame” of American Orthopaedic Society Sports Medicine in 1999.
Appointed Director of Orthopaedics for the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.
Appointed to the Board of the NRL 2000-2005.
Awarded the L.O. Betts Medal from the Australian Orthopaedic Association in 2011.
2021 Godfather Lecturer to the Herodicus Society.
Marist College Ashgrove 1987-1988.
15-year career representing Australia in cricket as a left-handed opening batsman.
Holds the record for the highest score made by an Australian batsman in Tests (380) and the highest individual test score by an opening batsman in Tests.
Received the Allan Border Medal (2002), Test Player of the Year (2002), Wisden Cricketer of the Year (2003), Wisden Batsman of the Decade (1996-2006) and ICC One-Day Player of the Year (2007).
Received the Order of Australia Award in 2010.
Inducted into the Queensland Sports Hall of Fame in 2014, and into the Australia Cricket Hall of Fame in 2017.
Inducted as an Honouree into the Bradman Foundation (2018).
Ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.
Co-Patron with John Eales, of The Champagnat Trust. The Trust exists to provide bursaries for boys from families who are financially disadvantaged and might never have the opportunity to experience a Marist education.
Bunbury Catholic College 2000-2004
Bunbury Catholic College Hall of Distinction
Member of the 2011 Australian National Hockey Team (Kookaburras)
Professor in Polymer Science (University of Southern Mississippi) working on novel strategies for the treatment of cancer, heart disease and burn injuries.
Ambassador for the Rotary Foundation Microscopes in Schools Project.
Marist College Ashgrove 1997-2001.
Represented Australia at two Olympic Games (2004, 2008), three World Championships (2003, 2005, 2007), five World Leagues (2004-2008) and in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Represented Italy in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games winning Olympic Silver and Bronze medals.
Received the prestigious Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.
Marist College Ashgrove 1980-1987.
Played for Queensland Reds 1990-2001 with Super Rugby Titles in 1992, 1994 and 1995.
Played 86 Tests with the Wallabies between 1991 and 2001, including 55 Tests as Captain 1996-2001. Highest scoring forward in Test Rugby history. Won the Rugby World Cup twice.
Made a member of the Order of Australia for services to Rugby Union and Charity in 1999.
Named Queenslander of the Year in 2002
Inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport “Best of the Best” in 2001, into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2003, to the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame in 2007, the Wallaby Hall of Fame in 2011 and awarded Legend status in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2020.
Co-Patron with Matthew Hayden of The Champagnat Trust which provides bursaries for families that are financially disadvantaged and might never have the opportunity to experience a Marist education.
Marist College Ashgrove 1945-1953.
Represented Queensland as halfback from 1954 to 1959.
Selected to play for Australia, touring the British Isles and France in 1957/8 with the Wallabies.
Chosen as an All Black from 1961 to 1966.
Appointed coach of the Wallabies from 1968 to 1971.
Inducted into Wallabies Hall of Fame in 2008.
Marist College Ashgrove 1971-1979.
Coach of the Australian swim team from 1991 to 2021.
Queensland Swimming Director of Coaching 1991-2022.
3-time Queensland Sports Coach of the Year, the Don Talbot Awardee (2008, 2016, 2021).
Life Member of Australian Swim Coaches and Teachers’ Association, Swimming Queensland and Brisbane Swimming Association.
Awarded Australian Sports Medal in 2000.
Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia in 2010.
Newman College 1994 - 2006.
2009 British Formula 3 Champion.
2014 Lorenzo Bandini Trophy.
2015 Laureus Awards Breakthrough Athlete.
Eight-time Formula 1 Grand Prix Winner, including 2018 Monaco GP and 2021 Italian GP.