NSW dominate Australian Schoolboys squad

Monday, 12 July 2010

Returning Australian Schoolboys coach Pat Langtry has unveiled a 23-man squad which will tackle Samoa and Fiji in two September Test matches in Sydney. 

Three members of last year's squad which recorded two wins and four losses on their end-of-year-tour to the UK and Ireland feature for their second Schoolboys campaign in Newington College hooker Hugh Roach and Brisbane State High School pair Curtis Browning and Chris F'Sautia.

More than half of the squad is made up of NSW representatives with eight players from NSW II winning selection after finishing runners-up to Queensland II in the Australian Schools National Championships final held at Ballymore yesterday.

Keebra Park High School playmaker Dion Taumata is the only member of Queensland II's Championship team to have won selection in the Australian Schoolboys squad, however six of his teammates have been named in the Australia 'A' Schoolboys squad which will play Fiji on 4 September in Sydney.

The King's School, located in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta, has the most number of players in the squad with five while Hale School product Gary Neugebauer is flying the flag for entire west coast.

2010 Australian Schoolboys Squad
Rhys Brodie (St Andrew's College)
Curtis Browning (Brisbane State High School)
Tom Connor (The Kings School)
Lindsay Crook (The Southport School)
Steve Cummins (The Hills Sports High School)
Tom Cusack (Marist College)
Tim Donlan (St Ignatius' College)
Tim Duchesne (Knox Grammar School)
Chris F'Sautia (Brisbane State High School)
Jed Gillespie (The Kings School)
Malietoa Hingano (St Augustine's College)
Lewis Holland (St Edmunds College)
Boyd Killingworth (The Kings School)
Apolosi Latunipulu (Newington College)
Joel Luani (Newington College)
Guy Millar (The Kings School)
Gary Neugebauer (Hale School)
Maile Ngauamo (Ipswich Grammar School)
Walter Petaia (Brisbane State High School)
Sam Reiser (St Joseph's Gregory Terrace)
Hugh Roach (Newington College)
Dion Taumata (Keebra Park High School)
Ed Wylie (The Kings School)

Coach: Pat Langtry
Manager: Andrew Elliot
Assistant Coach: Stephen Phillpotts

2010 Australia 'A' Schoolboys Squad
Jay Adkins (St Joseph's Nudgee College)
Michael Bermingham (Brisbane Grammar School)
Jack Bridges (St Joseph's Gregory Terrace)
Blake Cullen (Ipswich Grammar School)
Grant Davies (Brisbane Grammar School)
Rhys Dombkins (St Augustine's College)
Stuart Goodman (Barker College)
Jed Holloway (Waverley College)
Oliver Hoskins (Scotch College)
Stephen Hunt (St Joseph's Nudgee College)
Chris Ingate (The Kings School)
Luke Keary (Oakhill College)
James Klassen (Villanova College)
Benn Melrose (The Kings School)
Andy Molimau (Morrabin)
Elijah Palupe (Brisbane State High School)
Cameron Patrick (Mountain Creek High School)
Giorgio Phillips (St Joseph's Nudgee College)
Andrew Ready (St Joseph's Gregory Terrace)
Tim Reid (The Kings School)
Joseph Swan (Brisbane State High School)
Lausii Taliauli (The Southport School)
Waldo Wessels (Endeavour Sports High School)

Coach: Jarred Hodges
Manager: John Fitzgerald
Assistant Coach: Tim Rapp