Shannon Hegarty
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Personal information | ||||||
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Born | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
14 June 1979 |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||
Weight | 94 kg (14 st 11 lb) | |||||
Position | Wing, Centre | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1999–04 | Sydney Roosters | 109 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 208 |
2005–08 | South Sydney | 59 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
2009 | Nth. Qld. Cowboys | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Total | 173 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 256 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
2005 | Prime Minister's XIII | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2003 | Queensland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2003 | Australia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Source: Rugby League Project |
Shannon Hegarty (born 14 June 1979 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a former Australian professional rugby league player. He currently owns and operates Down Under Fitness gym & personal training in Jacksonville Beach, FL[1] An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative three-quarter back, he played club football in the National Rugby League for the Sydney Roosters (with whom he won the 2002 NRL Premiership), South Sydney Rabbitohs and North Queensland Cowboys.
Playing career
Hegarty played for the Sydney Roosters at centre in their 2000 NRL Grand Final loss to the Brisbane Broncos.
Hegarty scored the Roosters' first try in their win over the Warriors in the 2002 NRL grand final and went on to victory in England for the resulting 2003 World Club Challenge. He was then selected to play on the wing for Queensland in every match of the 2003 State of Origin series. Hegarty scored a try whilst playing in the centres for the Roosters in their loss to Penrith in the 2003 NRL grand final. After that he was selected to go on the 2003 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, helping Australia to victory over Great Britain in what would be the last time the two nations contested an Ashes series.
Hegarty played for the Roosters on the wing in their 2004 NRL Grand final loss to cross-Sydney rivals, the Bulldogs.
Released from the final year of his playing contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs on a mutual agreement, Hegarty signed with the North Queensland Cowboys two days later.[2]
Off the field, Hegarty posed for the Gods Of Football charity calendar in 2009 and appeared as Benji Veniamin in Tough Nuts: Australia's Hardest Criminals in 2011.[3]
He was a trainer and conditioning coach for the Jacksonville Axemen of the USA Rugby League.[4][5]
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