Tasmania’s Star Students: Guilford Young College
Tasmania has produced some incredible people who have gone on great things, and one school has produced a plethora of sporting and screen stars. SEE THE FULL LIST of star students from Guilford Young College >>
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FROM premiers to neuroscientists, musicians to sports stars, the state’s school have seen incredible people educated within their walls that have gone on to do amazing things.
The Mercury is shining a light on some of the state’s most prolific alumni as part of its Star Students series.
Guilford Young College is a Roman Catholic senior secondary college with campuses in Hobart and Glenorchy.
Meet Guilford’s Star Students.
Eloise Martyn
Martyn starred as Fantine in the Tasmanian stage production for the musical Les Miserables in 2019.
She also featured in the production of Legally Blonde at the Playhouse Theatre Hobart.
Taryn Moran
Moran is an Invictus Games athlete where she competed in powerlifting.
The former Army medical technician retired in 2012.
Riley Meredith
Meredith made his list-A debut for the Cricket Australia XI against Pakistan in 2017.
He burst onto the scene for the Tigers early in the 2017-18 season, having been part of Tasmania’s JLT Cup squad and making his first-class debut for the Tigers against Victoria at the MCG in November.
Scott Bowden
Bowden was selected to compete in the mountain bike event at the Rio Olympic Games.
He also featured in the road race where he rode in support of fellow Tasmanian Richie Porte.
Emilie McDonnell
McDonnell graduated from UTAS in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in Law, and was also the law cohort’s Valedictorian.
Was admitted to practice in the Tasmanian Supreme Court in 2016 as well as being awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study at the University of Oxford.
Her main areas of interest include refugee law, human rights law and public international law.
Scott Ling
Ling is a marine biologist with the UTAS Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
He has decades of experience in conducting scuba-based field research with much of his work focused on investigating the effects of human impacts on marine ecosystems such as climate change, fishing, pollution and the introduction of invasive species.
Caleb Jewell
Jewell is a promising young wicketkeeper-batsman who made his first-class debut for Tasmania in March 2016.
The left-hander also plays for the Hobart Hurricanes.
In mid-2015 he travelled to England with Australia’s Under-19 squad for the youth Ashes.
Sid Taberlay
Taberlay started competitive cycling when he was 15 and was selected for his first Australian Team in 2000.
The Tasmanian cyclist made his Olympic debut at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, finishing 23rd in the cross country mountain bike event.
In his career Taberlay also competed in nine World Championships and also placed sixth at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
Clare Smith
A molecular geneticist who was Tasmanian Young Australian of the Year in 2014.
She studied at the University of Tasmania and now works at the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology department at Duke University School of Medicine.
Olivia Fleming
The 2018 Tasmanian Young Achiever Award for Community Service and Volunteering award winner founded The Little Help Project during her first year studying medicine at UTAS.
The not-for-profit organisation has 25 volunteers and has helped 8000 Tasmanians.
She has volunteered in more than 30 week-long programs, facilitated camps and many community programs.
Brodie Holland
Holland is well-known in football circles having forged a strong AFL career with Fremantle and Collingwood in the 2000s.
After starring with the Tassie Mariners and being selected All Australian U16, Holland was picked as a 17-year-old in the 1997 AFL Draft at number 2 and made his debut midway through 1998.
Madeleine Fasnacht
Fasnacht has been touted as a star of the future after winning Cycling Australia’s coveted junior cyclist of the year in 2017.
She has also won two medals, gold and bronze, at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas and was honoured as Australia’s closing ceremony flag-bearer.
Sean Clingeleffer
Clingeleffer spent 10 years as a contracted player for the Tasmanian Tigers.
He was a member of Tasmania’s historic Pura Cup/Sheffield Shield-winning team in 2007, and has fulfilled professional playing roles around the world including several seasons in England and Holland.
Holding a Bachelor of Business, Clingeleffer is now a financial planner.
Ben van Tienen
Ben grew up in Cygnet and later studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
He has conducted UK tours of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, West Side Story, and The Rocky Horror Show; Chicago (Hong Kong), and Ordinary Days (Australia).
Alexandra (Allie) Britton
Britton was the first Tasmanian woman to win a place in the Iron Woman series.
She grew up training at Carlton Beach and won the Coolangatta Gold short course in 2014 and 2015 and the Summer of Surf at Torquay in 2016.
Kaitlyn (Kaity) Fassina
Fassina won a silver medal in the women’s 90kg weightlifting competition at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018 with a lift total of 232kg.
She is also a physical education teacher in Hobart.
Oliver O’Halloran
At 17 O’Halloran was the youngest pilot to circumnavigate Australia when he touched down at Cambridge Aerodrome on June 3, 2017 after a 14,500km, 21-day odyssey around the country.
Toby Moore
Best known for his roles as Victor in John Wick (2014), as James Wesley in the Netflix series Daredevil (2015), and Bryan Connerty in the Showtime series Billions (2016 – present).
Moore studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts.
Nicole Bresnehan
Bresnehan joined the Tasmanian contingent of the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos, after she was selected with pick 61 of the 2018 AFLW Draft.
The Clarence vice-captain is a dynamic player that is able to contribute around the ground.
Scott Brennan
Brennan’s first Australian Olympic selection was for Athens 2004.
With David Crawshay, he won the gold medal in the men’s double sculls at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He retired from the sport in 2015 to pursue a career in medicine.
Luke McGregor
McGregor started his stand-up comedy career in Tasmania in 2007 after one of the contestants in a comedy competition didn’t show up.
In 2016, McGregor teamed up with Celia Pacquola for the TV series Rosehaven — filmed right here in Tasmania.
He’s also known for his roles in It’s a Date (2013) and Utopia (2014).
Jessie Andrewartha
With Katherine Maher, Andrewartha is a sailing world champion and multiple Australian mirror dinghy champion.
The pair were named Tasmania’s female sailors of the year in 2013.
Now working as a medical doctor in the state’s northwest, Andrewartha is still sailing competitively.
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