Trent Merrin

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Trent Merrin
Personal information
Born	(1989-10-07) 7 October 1989 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	104 kg (16 st 5 lb)
Playing information
Position	Prop, Second-row, Lock
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2009–	St. George Illawarra	91	9	0	0	36
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2011–13	Country NSW	3	0	0	0	0
2011–13	New South Wales	7	1	0	0	4
Source:

Trent Merrin is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the St. George Illawarra Dragons of the National Rugby League. Primarily a prop forward, he has played his whole career to date at the Dragons, winning the 2010 NRL Grand Final with them.

Playing career

Merrin grew up playing rugby league with the Shellharbour Sharks like fellow front-row forward at the Dragons, Dan Hunt. Merrin claims another Shellharbour legend, Australian representative Luke Bailey, was "one of [his] idols growing up".^[1] In 2008, Merrin played for the Dragons Under 20s team in the Toyota Cup, scoring 2 tries for the season. He was selected as the Dragons' Toyota Cup Player of the Year in 2008, and in 2009 was selected to play First Grade for the Dragons, being chosen on the interchange bench.^[2] He didn't manage a single minute in the match which the Dragons won 25-12.

He was a prominent squad member of the 2010 premiership-winning Dragons team, and came from the bench to play in 2010 NRL Grand Final's final minutes.

In May 2011, he was selected on the bench for New South Wales for Game 1 of the 2011 State of Origin series. He was selected for the second match but was then dropped for the decider.

Career highlights

2008 - St George Illawarra Dragons Toyota Cup Player of the Year in 2008.
First Grade Debut: 2009 - Round 4, St George Illawarra v Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane on 3 April.
2010 NRL Premiership winner

References

External links

v t e St. George Illawarra Dragons – current squad

Ah Mau Ailaomai Beale Cooper Creagh (c) De Belin Drinkwater Dugan Farrell Frizell Garvey Groat Green Harrison Hunt Mata'utia Matthews Merrin Morris Nightingale Quinlan Rein Runciman Siejka K.Stanley Stockwell Thompson Vea Wakeman Widdop Williams Witt Coach: Price

v t e St. George Illawarra Dragons squad - 2010 NRL premiers

1. Darius Boyd 2. Brett Morris 3. Mark Gasnier 4. Matt Cooper 5. Jason Nightingale 6. Jamie Soward 7. Ben Hornby (c) 8. Neville Costigan 9. Dean Young 10. Michael Weyman 11. Beau Scott 12. Ben Creagh 13. Jeremy Smith 14. Nathan Fien 15. Trent Merrin 16. Matt Prior 17. Jarrod Saffy Coach: Wayne Bennett

v t e NYC Team of the Year – 2009

1. Malcolm Webster 2. Joe Vickery 3. Taioalo Vaivai 4. Siuatonga Likiliki 5. Drury Low 6. Robert Lui 7. Beau Henry 8. Jesse Bromwich 9. Travis Waddell 10. Trent Merrin 11. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves 12. Jake Marketo 13. Jamie Buhrer 14. Kieran Foran 15. Joel Romelo 16. Gareth Widdop 17. Daly Cherry-Evans

Persondata
Name	Merrin, Trent
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth	7 October 1989
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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