Schools to have produced both an AFL and NRL player

[crazywildhorse]

Surely one of the schools in or around Wagga would have

Yeah, was thinking this was going to be about Wagga. There must a few schools in Wagga that have produced the AFL, NRL and international Cricketer trifecta

 

[deflated]

Any with NRL AFL and Australian cricket?

If Barker College upthread qualifies for the AFL part they had Peter Taylor go there for cricket. (edit - and Alyssa Healy, dunno how she slipped by).

Thought Shore would get all three with a few cricketers, a ton of Wallabies and LRT and Henry Playfair for AFL but it doesn't look like any of the rugby types decided to cross over to NRL.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Yeah, was thinking this was going to be about Wagga. There must a few schools in Wagga that have produced the AFL, NRL and international Cricketer trifecta

Yeah, I’d more surprised if Wagga high or Mount Austin didn’t. I’m trying to see if I can find a notable alumni list.

 

[Roobs321]

Canberra is one of the more likely places, they’d have a couple examples.

e.g. Marist College Canberra has produced multiple from the AFL, NRL, Super Rugby, NBL

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I was in a band with the bloke who played Hawker in Tasmania lol

I think he probably has more of a right to call himself an AFL player than Folau.

 

[Gough]

Former Wallaby prop and coach Ewen McKenzie went to Scotch in Melbourne.

 

[74561347]

Hogwarts has produced the most professional quidditch players and dark wizards

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I mean it depends what you mean by “produced”, when you’re a private school that simply buys dozens of the best child athletes as part of your **** measuring process, then it’s to be expected that many of them will go on to be professionals.

Absolutely, it’s pretty grotesque, but even taking that on board, some of these rugby schools producing even one senior-standard AFL player is noteworthy. Rugby is a massive part of their identities, and other football codes are very much viewed with suspicion.

 

[FreoGirl]

Absolutely, it’s pretty grotesque, but even taking that on board, some of these rugby schools producing even one senior-standard AFL player is noteworthy. Rugby is a massive part of their identities, and other football codes are very much viewed with suspicion.

that's the same with rugby in WA - Aquinas ended up having to merge with another school (a few years ago) just to get a union team together

 

[skipper kelly]

Anglican Grammar in Brisbane.

Karmichael Hunt - Union
Karmichael Hunt - League
Karmichael Hunt - AFL

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Anglican Grammar in Brisbane.

Karmichael Hunt - Union
Karmichael Hunt - League
Karmichael Hunt - AFL

Marsden State High School in Brisbane.

Israel Folau - ARU
Israel Folau - NRL
Israel Folau - AFL
Israel Folau - BBL (Bible Basher League)

 

[mikey127]

Just found out that Hallam Secondry college in Melbourne has produced both AFL and NRL players. Wonder if it's the only Victorian School to have done so

 

[PhatBoy]

Temora High almost certainly would have.

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went to school there.

The likes of Trent Barrett, Steve Reardon, Ryan Hinchcliffe, Zac Lomax, Angus Crichton, Brett Firman and heaps of others are from or spent considerable time in their youth in Temora and it’s not a big place so I’m guessing they probably all were a huge chance of having been schooled there.

Edit: i can pretty safely say it has - Steve Reardon is even still working there

 

[finanamat]

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attended Cairns State High School, as did Heilum Luki (North Queensland Cowboys). It's possible that there are other alumni who went on to become NRL players too.

 

[Wallaby]

Melbourne High:

AFL (VFL) - Keith Miller
Australian Test Cricketer - Keith Miller

Lots of other Footballers, test cricketers, NBL-ers.
Also one NFL-er and two Olympic Gold Medallists.

I think most top level schools could have a good list, but certainly AFL and Rugby is a strange mix.