NSW Junior Rugby Union

Chuck has been a long time servant of the game, holding various roles across both schools and club rugby for the past two decades. He is well regarded amongst his peers as a capable and inclusive leader and brings to the role a track record of proven success. He has previously held multiple roles across the NSW Schools committee, Australian Schools Rugby Union, multiple schools and club coaching and committee roles. Most notably, he already has experience at a NSW Juniors level having been the Juniors Affiliate Director to the NSW Rugby & Waratahs Board back in 2016-17 – so he understand the landscape of the role and the how best to represent the three junior affiliates at that level.  

Some key aspects of Chucks impact across the NSW Juniors space are

• He was a major influence on the repairing of relationships between NSW Schools, NSW Country & SJRU which were very fractured a decade ago. This helped create the harmonious relationship amongst the affiliates that resulted in NSW Schools officially affiliating with NSW Juniors.
• He assisted NSW Juniors in the establishment of the Juniors XV (club team) and their entry into the Australian Schools Championships – as well as being the catalyst for the NSWJRU Barbarians (from the State Champs) which also entered ASRU after Covid. This directly benefitted both the NSW Country and SJRU U18     Boys pathways and thus why today we see nearly 200 players trialing for either the NSW Country or SJRU Rep teams.
• He helped implement the Girls 7s at ASRU and the implementation of the Australian Schoolgirls 7s team.
• He was part of the peace negotiations with Rugby AU and ASRU which has seen them come back together to form the new ASRU & Rugby AU Nationals Competition we saw begin in 2025..
• He was instrumental in helping remove the schools fixtures from the June long weekend to give the club rugby NSW Junior State Championships some ‘free air’.

Chuck has a passion for junior rugby and has shared vision to see all three affiliates thrive together.. He has proven he can collaborate and bring parties together for the greater good of the game. Plus he has a vision and a drive to make a difference. As the President of NSW Juniors he is there build on what has been more than a decade of work that he has been a major part of, to make NSW Juniors and the affiliates strong, vibrant, unified and commercially sound – that can only be achieved by working together.