Brenton Lawrence
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| Born | 29 December 1984 Mackay, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 105 kg (16 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Prop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brenton Lawrence (born 29 December 1984) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop in the 2010s.
Lawrence was born in Mackay, Queensland, Australia.[citation needed]
Early career
Lawrence moved to Adelaide in South Australia when he was only 4 after his father Marty, was posted to the Edinburgh RAAF base in the cities northern suburbs. His family settled in the newly built northern suburb of Andrews Farm and Brenton went on to attend Smithfield Plains High School.[citation needed]
After ignoring calls from his primary school friends to play Australian rules football (the leading winter sport in Adelaide), Lawrence began playing rugby league at the age of nine for the northern Adelaide based club Central Districts Roosters in the South Australian Rugby League.[2] He attributes this decision to his league-loving dad, and because of rugby league's advertising campaign which at the time was led by international pop music artist Tina Turner and her hit song Simply The Best.
Brenton Lawrence was selected to the South Australian Under-15 team in the late 1990s, and in 2002 he toured England and France with the Australian Schoolboys while attending Erindale College in Canberra. The tour was ultimately unsuccessful as the Schoolboys lost a test series on tour to the England Academy for the first time. Among his teammates on tour were a number of future NRL players including Michael Weyman, Keith Galloway, Ben Hannant, Ryan Hoffman, Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Heath L'Estrange and Jacob Lillyman.
Following the 2002 Schoolboys tour he was signed to a youth contract by the Canberra Raiders at the age of 17. He stayed with the Raiders for five seasons, playing under 18s, under 20s and Reserve Grade, though he did not play first grade for the club.
In 2008 Lawrence captained Woden Valley Rams in the Canberra District Rugby League competition. 2009 saw Lawrence take on the role as Captain/Coach as he led the Rams to the preliminary finals, the team's highest placing in 10 seasons.