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single-sex and

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comprehensive and specialist

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day and boarding school , specialist =

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, founders = , headmaster = Matthew Brennan , chaplain = John Roberts, OFM , grades =

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, grades_label = Years , campus = , location = 100 Badgally Road, Gregory Hills,

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, affiliations = , enrolment = 1,100 , enrolment_as_of = 2007 , staff = 157 (FTE) , colours = Maroon and sky blue , nickname = Greg's, St. Greg's, SGC , homepage = , oversight = Diocese of Wollongong , former_name = St Gregory's Agricultural College St Gregory's College Campbelltown (abbreviated as SGC or Greg's or St Greg's) is an

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

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single-sex and

comprehensive and specialist

and

day and boarding school, located in Gregory Hills, near , a south-western suburb of

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, Australia. With specialist expertise as an

agricultural school Agricultural education is the teaching of agriculture, natural resources, and land management. At higher levels, agricultural education is primarily undertaken to prepare students for employment in the agricultural sector. Classes taught in an ...

, St Gregory's College provides a co-educational environment for students in the Year K to

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primary school; and a boys-only environment for students in the

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secondary schools. Founded on 3 February 1926 and conducted by the

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since 1929, St Gregory's has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,100 students, including 180 boarders. The college is located within the Diocese of Wollongong, and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the

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, and is an associate member of the Independent Schools Association (ISA). It is conducted by the Marist Brothers.

History

Early days

St Gregory's College commenced operations in 1926. The property on which the college is located was owned by Thomas Donovan. In the early 1920s he contacted the Marist Brothers about starting a school for boys to help them learn the skills to have careers. Stgregscollege1932

St Gregory's commenced operations as a boarding school on 3 February 1926 with five Marist Brothers as staff, and two students (The Cuskelly Brothers). By the end of the year the student numbers had risen to ten. In 1929 the estate was handed over to the

by Thomas Donovan. Donovan intended that St Gregory's College should exist for country boys whom he would endow with bursaries. Much of the early infrastructure was also donated by Mr Donovan, for example the

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classroom A classroom or schoolroom is a learning space in which both children and adults learn. Classrooms are found in educational institutions of all kinds, ranging from preschools to universities, and may also be found in other places where education ...

s and the first

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. The foundation principal in 1926 was Br Felix. However, before the end of the first year he was recalled to his position at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. Br Laurentius who was on the staff took over the position. Br Laurentius was only 27 years old but suffered from ill health. Enrolments climbed to around 50 students despite the college not having main

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or a reliable supply of water. The

Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...

saw enrolments drop to ten students and the college was threatened with closure. Principal Br Laurentius died in 1933 after a long illness. Br Antoninus was appointed the new principal and led the college during the Depression years.

Recent history

The college has hosted the Marist

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and

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Carnival's, Won the

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and

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Cup. In 2008 St Gregory's had a mass in celebration of the "Journey of the

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in which the college was very involved. In 2018, the College became a K-12 school, with the opening of the Junior School on the College grounds. The Junior and Senior schools are administered separately, under the direction of the Headmaster and the Trustees. The Junior School is co-educational, and the Senior School is a single-sex school for boys only. Girls must seek an alternate secondary school at which to complete their senior education.

Sexual abuse allegations

In June, July and August 2014 the

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initiated in 2013 by the

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and supported by all of its

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governments, began an investigation into the response of Marist Brothers to allegations of child sexual abuse in schools in the ACT, NSW and

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. Five former students, one former teacher, a former assistant principal and two former principals, former and current Marist officials and clergy, and one of the clergy at the centre of the allegations gave evidence or made statements before the Royal Commission that the alleged cases of abuse happened during the 1970s, and 1980s at

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, at , Campbelltown and in

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. In March 2015 a former Marist brother was arrested over a number of sex offences allegedly committed at St Joseph's College and St Gregory's College in the 1980s.

Campus

The college is situated on a single

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. Previously, the land owned by the College once exceeded before most of it was sold to create the Gregory Hills housing sub-division, located in the suburb of Gregory Hills (a suburb located within Camden Council) and approximately from the

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. St Gregory's is located on Badgally Hill, the second highest

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between Sydney and the

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Boarding

Boarders of St Gregory's College live in houses named after a significant Brother in the college's history.

List of Headmasters

The following individuals have served as Headmaster of St Gregory's College, Campbelltown:

Co-curriculum

Sport

St Gregory's College has a strong reputation in sport. St Gregory's is known for its success in

Water Polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

and in the last millennium ,

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. In 2008 the First XI winning the MCS competition, 2007 Australasian Marist Carnival and joint premiers in the Combined Catholic College's Downey Trophy, with 22 wins and 0 losses all season. The college has been dubbed "A Nursery for Mens Water Polo Players" and with this Water Polo is very strong culture at the college as St Gregory's compete in the MCS competition and the Arrive Alive Cup and have been champions on a record 9 occasions and Runners Up twice. Strong support from the college community is present at semi-finals and finals in the MCS competition and all Arrive Alive Cup matches. St Gregory's won the 2010 MCS Water Polo Grand Final defeating Patrician Brother's Blacktown in the final 24-10 coached by Lee Addison. They also retained their title in 2011, thus becoming the first team from the college since 1994 to achieve back to back titles.

Rugby Union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

is also becoming part of the sporting culture at the college with the boarding community representing the college against teams in the

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and ISA sporting competitions. In 2008, only the second year of "serious" competitive

fixtures, St Gregory's made the semifinals of the Waratah Shield, losing to fellow ISA school St Augustine's College held at St Joseph's College. The college has reached the final of the MCS Soccer competition 4 out of the last 5 years. The college provides facilities for the students with 8 rugby league/union fields, 3 cricket fields, 3 football (

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) fields,

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tennis court A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be u ...

s, cricket nets, outdoor and indoor

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s and a College

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nasium. Sports played at the college include: Rugby League, Cricket, Football (Soccer),

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, Rugby Union,

Australian Rules Football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

, Touch Football,

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

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, Cross Country,

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, and

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. St Gregory's College is known as a nursery to the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

(NRL) with some notable players representing several NRL teams along with State and National honours. On Grand Final day 2007 saw each 3 grandfinals Jersey Flegg, Premier League and the NRL

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Premiership had a representative from St Gregory's College. Rugby League is the dominant sport in St Gregory's College.

Debating and public speaking

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and

public speaking Public speaking, also called oratory or oration, has traditionally meant the act of speaking face to face to a live audience. Today it includes any form of speaking (formally and informally) to an audience, including pre-recorded speech deliver ...

has had a long history at St Gregory's College. The college represents itself in the Competition for Public Speaking and Debating. The college also participates in the regular seasons of the named curricula. The CSDA is the debating competition in which St. Gregory's College. Public Speaking is also widely encouraged at St. Gregory's with multiple competitions throughout the school year. The CSDA competition is an outside run competition in which the school selects students to attend, the Gordon Fetterplace Public Speaking Competition which is a school run competition. Finally the Marist Oratary is entered for the best public speakers of the college. Until 2008 the Year 12 debating trophy was named for

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a former teacher who was a convicted criminal and British traitor.

Agriculture

Once based on and, until 1990, called "St Gregory's Agricultural College" it was home to a commercial dairy, cattle, poultry, piggery and popular

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timed to coincide with the

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Festival. The school began a land cost analysis in the late 1980s, assigning senior Agricultural students the task of identifying value as their major project for the HSC. The school appears to have stepped back from this history and little publicly available evidence remains outside of hardcopy

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. The college still competes in various aspects of

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. As well as running agriculture classes and its reduced College farm, the college participates in show

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and show

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competitions and programs. Most recently the college participated at the annual

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, Camden Show and

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Show.

Notable alumni

Alumni of St Gregory's College are commonly referred to as 'Old Boys' and may choose to join the schools

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, the St Gregory's College Old Boys Association.

Entertainment, media and the arts

* Kerry Casey actor *

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musician *

Geoff Jansz Geoff Jansz (born 1958 ) is a Sri Lankan-born Australian chef and television presenter. Career After graduating from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1984, Geoff Jansz worked as a pharmacist, but later opened a restaur ...

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n-Australian chef and television presenter * Peter Lloyd

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journalist *

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graduate of the

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and later a Logie-winning TV producer and author

Politics, public service and the law

* Peter Breen former

Member of the NSW Legislative Council * General Angus Campbell,

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, previously Chief of the Australian Army and Commander of

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* Steven Chaytor former

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member of the

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, representing

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* Benedict Paul HardmanMember of the

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, representing Seymour *

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current Director of the Gonski Institute for Education at the

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, former National Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Murrumbidgee; and former NSW Minister for Education; also attended Catholic High School Griffith * Thomas Gregory Stephens Labor member of the

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, representing Central Kimberley-Pilbara * Dr Vergil Narokobi Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea * William John Tilley

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member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing Benambra; also attended

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& Redden College) * Sir

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Solomon Islander politician, former

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and co-chair of the peace talks which ended the

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* Graham West former Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Campbelltown and former cabinet minister *

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current

member of the

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for the

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(formerly Denison * Jelta Wong current

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member of the

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representing the

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and current

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Minister for Health & HIV/AIDS

Sport

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player for the

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Trent Barrett Trent Barrett (born 18 November 1977) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is a former head coach and a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. He was previously the head ...

rugby league coach. Former player for

Cronulla Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league ...

Illawarra Steelers The Illawarra Steelers are an Australian rugby league football club based in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales. The club competed in Australia's top-level rugby league competition from 1982 until 1998. On the 13th of December 1980, the ...

St George Illawarra Dragons The St. George Illawarra Dragons is an Australian professional rugby league football club, representing both the Illawarra and St George regions of New South Wales. The club has competed in the National Rugby League since 1999 after a joint- ...

Wigan Wigan ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, Lancashire, River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. Bolton lies to the nor ...

and

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

Daniel Christian Daniel Trevor Christian (born 4 May 1983) is an Australian professional cricketer with Aboriginal ancestry. He is considered to be a Twenty20 cricket specialist and has played for franchises all over the globe. Christian is known as a powerfu ...

cricketer for South Australian Redbacks,

Deccan Chargers The large Deccan Plateau in southern India is located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada river. To the north, it is bounded by the ...

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...

in T20 and formerly NSW Blues * Peter Cusak rugby league player for South Sydney * Sandor Earl rugby league player for

Penrith Panthers The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL. The team is based west of the centre of Sydney, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Penrith ...

and a model *

Adam Elliott Adam Elliott (born 16 October 1994) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and forward for the Newcastle Knights in the NRL. He previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Canberra Raiders in th ...

rugby league player for the

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the NRL Telstra Premiership, as well as competitions facilita ...

Jack Gibson Jack Gibson may refer to: * Jack Gibson (rugby league) (1929–2008), Australian player and coach * Jack Stanley Gibson (1909–2005), Irish physician * Jack Gibson (ice hockey, born 1880) (1880–1955), ice hockey player and executive * Jack Gibs ...

rugby league coach *

Matt Groat Matt Groat is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the Easts Tigers in the Intrust Super Cup. He has previously played for Thirlmere Roosters in the Group 6 Rugby League, St. George Illawarra Dragons, Wests Tigers in the NRL an ...

rugby league player for

Wests Tigers The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional Rugby league, rugby league football team, based in the Inner West and South West Sydney. They have competed in the National Rugby League since being formed at the end of the 1999 NRL season as a j ...

* Eric Grothe Jr rugby league player for

Parramatta Eels The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta that competes in the National Rugby League. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, and their ...

Daniel Heckenberg Daniel Heckenberg (born 27 October 1979) is a former Scotland international rugby league footballer. He played as a at club level in the NRL for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Parramatta Eels and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, in the Super ...

rugby league player for

Harlequins RL The London Broncos are a professional rugby league club in London, England. The club competes in the RFL Championship. It was a member of Super League from its inaugural season in 1996 until the end of the 2014 season, when they were relegat ...

Ivan Henjak Ivan Henjak (born 9 March 1963)http://broncos.com.au/index.php?page_id=individual_player&player_id=157&team_id=1 Accessed on 23 December 2008. Quote: "Born Croatia 9th Mar 1963" is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and ...

former head coach of the

Brisbane Broncos The Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club Ltd., commonly referred to as the Broncos, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos play in Australia's elite com ...

and rugby league player for the

Country New South Wales rugby league team The Country New South Wales rugby league team is a representative rugby league football team. Between 1987 and 2017 there were two tiers: the Origin team that consisted of professional players who originated from clubs of the Country Rugby Leagu ...

, St George Illawarra Dragons,

Canberra Raiders The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby ...

and

Western Suburbs Magpies The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly r ...

. *

Ryan Hoffman Ryan Hoffman (born 26 January 1984) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played for Melbourne Storm and the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League, and the Wigan Warriors ...

rugby league player for the

Melbourne Storm The Melbourne Storm are a rugby league club based in Melbourne, Victoria in Australia that participates in the National Rugby League. The first fully professional rugby league team based in the state, the Storm entered the competition in 1998. ...

New Zealand Warriors The New Zealand Warriors are a professional rugby league football club based in Auckland, New Zealand that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and is the League's only team from outside Australia. They were formed in 1995 as ...

, NSW and Australia * David Howella professional

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 ...

footballer for the Canberra Raiders and

Luke Kelly Luke Kelly (17 November 1940 – 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a working-class household in Dublin city, Kelly moved to England in his late teens and by his early 20s had become i ...

rugby league player for the Melbourne Storm * Chris Lawrence rugby league player for the Wests Tigers * Alex McKinnon rugby league player for the

Newcastle Knights The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Playing in red and blue, th ...

Jake Mullaney Jake Mullaney (born 28 May 1990) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who has played in the 2000s and 2020s. He played for English club Bradford Bulls, as a or . He has been described as, "slightly built," and a, "prolific go ...

rugby league player for formerly for the Parramatta Eels; currently playing for the

Super League The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of wh ...

club the

Bradford Bulls The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, playing in the Championship. They have won five Challenge Cups, six league championships and three World Club Challenges. The team jersey is predom ...

Robbie Mears Robert "Robbie" Mears (born 25 September 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. His usual position was as a . Background Mears was born in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. Early years Mears played for Ingleb ...

rugby league player * Brendan Oake rugby league player for the Parramatta Eels *

Michael Potter Michael Potter (born 24 September 1963) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the interim head coach of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League, and a former professional rugby league football ...

former rugby league coach and rugby league player for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, St George Illawarra Dragons and New South Wales. * Luke Quigley rugby league player formerly for the Newcastle Knights; currently playing for the French Super League club

Catalans Dragons The Catalans Dragons ( French: ''Dragons Catalans'', Catalan: ''Dracs Catalans'') are a professional rugby league club from Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, France. The team competes in the Super League and are the only team from ...

* Paul Quinn rugby league player who represented Australia on the Kangaroo tour of 1963-4 *

Russell Richardson Russell Richardson (born 12 February 1977 in Dubbo, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000. An Australian international representative centre, he played his club football ...

former rugby league player who represented Australia in the

Super League Test series Super may refer to: Computing * SUPER (computer program), or Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer, a video converter / player * Super (computer science), a keyword in object-oriented programming languages * Super key (keyboard butt ...

against

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...

and in the 1999 Tri-Nations series against

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

. *

Trent Robinson Trent Robinson (born 15 March 1977) is an Australian professional rugby league coach who is the head coach of the Sydney Roosters in the NRL and a former professional rugby league footballer. He has previously held coaching positions at Toul ...

current head coach of the

Sydney Roosters The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional Rugby league, Rugby League Football Club based in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) and parts of inner Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. The Roosters have won ...

and former professional player * Beau Scott former professional rugby league player who represented Australia in the

2011 ANZAC Test The 2011 ANZAC Test was a rugby league test match played between Australia and New Zealand on 6 May 2011 at Skilled Park on the Gold Coast. Australia won their tenth straight Anzac test with a score of 20–10. Pre-game The game was origina ...

, the

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and 2014 Four Nations tournaments and New South Wales in the

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

and

2012 State of Origin series The 2012 State of Origin series was the 31st time the annual best-of-three series between the Queensland and New South Wales rugby league teams was played entirely under 'state of origin' rules. For the fourth successive year a Queensland victor ...

. *

Matt Seers Matt Seers (born 28 June 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played for the North Sydney Bears, Wests Tigers and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, as a or . Club career Seers pla ...

former professional

footballer for the

North Sydney Bears The North Sydney Bears is an Australian rugby league football club based in North Sydney, New South Wales. The club competes in the New South Wales Cup, having exited the National Rugby League following the 1999 NRL season after 90 years in the ...

, Wests Tigers and

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, that plays in the Super League. One of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Rugby Football League, Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, betw ...

Tim Sheens Tim Sheens (born 30 October 1950) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Head Coach of the Australia national team between 2009 and 2015, he has also been the head coach of National Rugby League (NRL) clubs ...

former

NRL The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

coach for the Wests Tigers and Australia (also attended St Dominic's College, Kingswood) * Jimmy Smith current

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rugby league commentator and former rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters, Western Suburbs Magpies and South Sydney Rabbitohs. * Jason Taylor rugby league player for Wests, Norths, the

Northern Eagles The Northern Eagles were a rugby league team, that competed in the National Rugby League (NRL) between 2000 and 2002. The club was formed during the rationalisation process of the NRL by the merger of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and the Nort ...

, and

Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...

; a former coach of

South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian 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 pla ...

Taulima Tautai Taulima Tautai born 3 April 1988 is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, who has most recently played as a for the Wigan Warriors in the Super League. He previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Parramatta Ee ...

rugby league player for the

James Tedesco James Tedesco (born 8 January 1993), nicknamed "Teddy", is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and captains the Sydney Roosters in the NRL, New South Wales rugby league team and Australia. He previously played for the Wests ...

rugby league player for the

and the

Nic White Nicolas William White (born 13 June 1990) is an Australian rugby union player who plays for Brumbies in Super Rugby. His playing position is scrum-half. Early life White attended St Gregory's College Campbelltown representing New South Wa ...

rugby union player for the

ACT Brumbies The ACT Brumbies (known from 2005–2022 as simply the Brumbies) is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), The team competes in Super Rugby and named for the brumby, feral horses whi ...

and the

Australian Wallabies The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the ...

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St Gregory's College WebsiteMarist Brothers Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Gregory's College, Campbelltown Educational institutions established in 1926 1926 establishments in Australia Catholic secondary schools in Sydney Catholic primary schools in Sydney Boarding schools in New South Wales Boys' schools in New South Wales Association of Marist Schools of Australia Catholic boarding schools in Australia

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