Sttew
Brownlow Medallist
Haileybury is renowned for "buying" sports kids and whole teams. The same year your volleyball team was poached I know they poached several girls from Toorak College offering them 100% scholarships.Private schools buy sports stars all the time. My daughter was a very promising swimmer and several schools were falling over themselves to get hold of her. I worked as a teacher in a state school in a working class area for many years, we had a teacher who played Volleyball for Australia, she created a team that were state champions under her expert coaching. The following year Haileybury offered the entire Volleyball team scholarships and took the lot of them. Its no surprise that any promising young player gets picked up by private schools.
Chris Judd went to Caulfield Grammar on a scholarship, as did Jack Ziebell. Not all private schools do that or at the level that a Haileybury has.