It was pretty exciting to go from a Third XV player at school to being teammates with a PELICAN: SEMESTER 1, 2021
lot of the First XV players in the Whites Colts team the following year. Being at the Whites has not only let me continue to have great friendships with guys I went to school with but also form new ones with other Eddies boys that finished school in the years before and following me. A big part of the Whites are Eddies Old Boys which is something that I love being involved in. The other big sporting love of mine is golf. It is something that I enjoyed right through my time at St Edmund’s and, following a break for a few years after school, it is something that I continue to enjoy. I was lucky enough to captain the ACT Schoolboys golf team in my last year of school and have also
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represented the ACT in senior golf since. While golf is an individual sport and I enjoy the challenge of it just being you against the course, it is team events that are the most memorable for me, which included winning the local A grade pennant flag with Queanbeyan in 2018.
STRONG CHARACTER.
I grew up with parents in the construction industry and swore it was something I would never do, I was that certain that I did not even do construction in my senior years at St Edmund’s and completed a Diploma of Agriculture when I first left school. However,
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I ended up doing a carpentry apprenticeship Year 12 Retreat 2005
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