The Gymea Gorillas Junior Rugby League Football Club is a
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
football club that is based in the Sydney suburb of
Gymea and competes in the
Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League
The Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League (Cronulla-Sutherland District Junior Rugby Football League in the case of junior football) is an amateur competition for rugby league clubs in and around the Sutherland Shire district of N ...
. The club is based out of Gymea where its headquarters are located and usually draws on the large majority of its junior players from that suburb and the surrounding areas of
Kirrawee
Kirrawee is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Kirrawee is located 25 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the Sutherland Shire. Kirrawee lies between Sutherland, to the west, and ...
,
Sutherland
Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later ...
,
Grays Point,
Sylvania and
Kareela
Kareela is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
History
Kareela was the first mixed-use estate developed by Stockland, developed in 1953. The estate was originally called Sylvan Headland. Sylvan Headland ...
.
The Gymea Gorillas club currently fields teams from Under 6 age groups all the way up to A Grade and has produced several international players including former
Australian captain
Greg Pierce
Gregory Stuart Pierce (4 March 1950 – 24 June 2016) was an Australian rugby league player, coach and administrator. He played as a for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League competition and for Australia. He captained hi ...
. Currently Gymea Gorillas club fields 35 teams, equalling with
De La Salle JRLFC for the most teams within the CSDRFL Area.
At the end of 2006 Gymea Gorillas JRLFC was awarded with both the junior and senior club of the year within the Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League. As the 2006 season proved to be very successful for Gymea Gorillas JRLFC in the senior grades; attaining both the Under 16s and Under 21s Premierships.
The 2007 season saw further success for the club with it taking out the A Grade premiership over Como Jannali
2012 saw the club enter its 50th year with a record of 39 teams representing the club from ages 6 thru to A grade.
Notable players
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Reece Blayney
Reece Blayney (born 24 July 1985) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the Queensland Cup competition. Blayney previously played for teams such as the Canterbury-Bankstow ...
See also
External links
Official websiteLeagueNet Gymea Gorillas website
Rugby league teams in Sydney
Rugby clubs established in 1962
1962 establishments in Australia
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