Wayne Bartrim

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Wayne Bartrim
Personal information
Full name Wayne Bartrim
Date of birth 9 October 1971 (1971-10-09) (age 36)
Place of birth Hat Head, Australia
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 92 kg (14 st 7 lb)
Club information
Position(s) Lock/Hooker
Current club Retired
Youth clubs
Years Club
Smithtown
Senior clubs*
Years Club Apps (points)
1991–1994
1995–1998
1999–2001
2002–2003		 Gold Coast
St. George
St. George Illawarra
Castleford		 76 (224)
83 (560)
72 (374)
43 (350)
Representative teams
1995–1998
1995–1996		 Queensland
Australia		 9 (22)
4 (12)

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

Wayne Bartrim (born 9 October 1971 in Hat Head, New South Wales), is a former Australian professional rugby league player. He played for the Gold Coast Seagulls, St. George Dragons and St. George Illawarra Dragons in the Australian competition and Castleford Tigers in the English Super League. Bartrim was selected to represent Australia and Queensland during his career. His position of choice was at lock.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Club career

Bartrim played his junior football in Kempsey. He was graded with the Gold Coast Seagulls in 1992 and made 76 appearances for the club. In 1994 he was the club's highest point scorer with 224 points and in a match that season against the Eastern Suburbs Roosters scored a club record of 20 points.

He joined the St George Dragons in 1995 and in his seven year career with the club was the Dragons' highest point scorer in seasons 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. He was one of the senior players at the time of the merger with the Illawarra Steelers and captained the club on a number of occasions.

He played in the Dragons' 1996 Grand Final loss to the Manly where he kicked two goals and the 1999 Grand Final loss to the Melbourne Storm. He left St George at the end of the 2001 season to play two years in England with the Castleford Tigers. He holds the standing Castleford club record for most goals in a season with 114 scored in 2002.

[edit] Representative career

Bartrim made his State of Origin debut for Queensland as a hooker in the Paul Vautin coached 1995 Origin side full of inexperienced unknowns with so many Queensland regulars unavailable due to the Super League war. Bartrim kicked the only goal and points in game I and figured as hooker and goal-kicker in all matches of that year's 3-0 Queensland whitewash.

He was hooker in game I of the 1996 series but was kept out of the rest of that year's series by Steve Walters in the hooking role. He returned for all three games of the 1997 series and games I and II of the 1998 series playing at lock, hooker, second-row or off the interchange bench. He kicked eleven goals in his Origin career.

Bartrim debuted for the Australian national side in the first Test of the 1995 domestic series against New Zealand and appeared in two Tests of that series. He was in Australia's squad for the 1995 World Cup played in England and made two appearances in games against England and South Africa. In 1995, he played from the bench against Papua New Guinea, scoring two tries.

[edit] Records

His 176 points scored in 1996 with St George are the most ever scored by a lock in a New South Wales Rugby League season.

He holds the standing Castleford club record for most goals in a season with 114 scored in 2002.

[edit] After first grade football

At the end of 2003 he returned to Australia to settle in Hat Head and was the Macleay Valley Mustangs' captain-coach in the NSW Group 2 competition in 2004 and 2005. In 2006 he moved to Brisbane and played with the Noosa Pirates in the Sunshine Coast Rugby League competition in 2006 and 2007. He is married with four children.

Wayne, and his wife Jodie bought a Gym and fitness centre (Alive Gym) at Lawnton in Brisbane's North. When the Gym equipment was repossesed in March 2007 the Gym was forced to close owing thousands of dollars to a number of Gym members and business creditors.

[edit] References

  • Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
  • Big League's 25 Years of Origin, (2005 Collectors Edition), News Magazines, Surry Hills, Sydney
  • Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. Wetherill Park, New South Wales: Gary Allen Pty Ltd, 609. ISBN 9781877082931. 

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