Marsden SHS adds 328 games of NRL experience to coaching ranks, while also bolstering football and rugby coaching stocks
Which Queensland school now has 328 games of NRL experience in its coaching ranks while also bolstering its football ranks with an ex-Roar assistant coach?
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Marsden SHS now has 328 games of NRL filtered through its rugby league coaching ranks after the addition of Jamie Feeney and Gerard Beale for 2021, while also adding an ex-Roar assistant coach to help with football. Current Australian Jillaroos assistant coach Feeney (132 games), NRL veteran and Logan product Beale (196 games) and Queensland Cup players Dallas Anderson and Krys Freeman have joined the staff.They will work alongside 2020 staff members Matt Hartigan (2021 Langer Cup head coach), Keeown Rawnsley (former NRL Girls Participation State-wide coordinator), ex- NRL half Darren Nicholls and strength and conditioning ace Jacob Stains (son of Origin player Danny) in helping prepare teams for the Langer Cup, Titans Cup, Walters Cup and other Brisbane Broncos sponsored junior league competitions.
Former NRL recruitment ace Brian Edwards is also part of the staff, working with students as a transition officer.
The addition of Feeney, Beale, Anderson and Freeman is exciting league news for a school which recently celebrated watching three past students - Corey Allan, Brenko Lee and Jaydn Su’a - help Queensland secure a State of Origin series win.
Marsden SHS is of course the old school of league legend Cameron Smith, among many other internationals and state players.
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Football and rugby union will also be lavishly catered for at Marsden SHS, with current Brisbane Roar under 18 men’s coach and ex-Roar assistant coach Graham Fyfe joining the football coaching staff.
“He is a passionate coach that holds his FFA A License and will add to the Makos coaching team,’’ said Marsden SHS principal Andrew Peach.
Fyfe will add to an already impressive football coaching roster which includes Matilda’s assistant coach Melissa Andreatta, Olympic WNPL Head Coach Danny Byrne, Queensland Academy of Sport under 16 Women’s head coach Lachie Leong, under 15 state schoolboys coach Sean Curtis and Metropolitan East representative coaches Jesse Deveraux and Andy Garside.
Rugby will also have Rawnsley, current Australian Wallaroo and Reds player Cobie Jane Morgan and Asako Ono, a Wallaroos and Reds rugby representative, to develop girls rugby at the school.
Under their guidance Super W Rugby rookie Destiny Brill is blossoming.
Peach said Marsden SHS was offering students “the very best teaching and coaching across all areas of our school’’.
“The quality of staff that we are able to attract is a great recognition of the work we do to support both our kids and our staff,’’ Peach said.
“It’s also a large reason behind our recent recognition at the Australian Education Awards.
“It is really important to us that kids in our Logan community have the very best of everything – facilities, training programs and most importantly people.
“The staff we have assembled at Marsden is truly second to none. Great experience, and great people.’’
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