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Shaun Berrigan

Personal information
Full name	Shaun Berrigan
Date of birth	November 4, 1978
Place of birth	Brisbane, Australia
Height	1.78 cm
Weight	87 kg
Position	Hooker
Club information
Current club	Brisbane Broncos
Youth clubs
	Wests-Mitchelton
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1999-present	Brisbane	168 (292)
Representative teams**
2002-2006 2004-2006	Queensland Australia	12 (8) 10
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only and correct as of 1 October 2006. ** Representative team caps and points correct as of 4 November 2006.

Shaun Berrigan (born November 4, 1978 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition.

Contents 1 Playing Career 1.1 2005 1.2 2006 1.3 2007 1.4 Representative 1.5 Career highlights 2 Away from Rugby League 3 External link

Shaun Berrigan made his debut for the Brisbane Broncos in Round 11, 1999 against the Balmain Tigers. He has played in every season since then for the Broncos. Berrigan's regular position was centre but he can play a number of back-line positions as well as hooker.

Berrigan was the top try-scorer for the Broncos in the 2005 season.

Berrigan played his 150th first grade game for the club in 2006. He started the year in the centre position but injuries to the Broncos' fulltime hookers, Michael Ennis and Barry Berrigan, made coach Wayne Bennett move Shaun to hooker. This turned out to be a success, with former great Peter Sterling saying that it brings a new dimension to the Broncos' game not seen for a while.

At hooker, Berrigan played so well in the grand final that he won the Clive Churchill Medal. In the grand final, Berrigan was superb from dummy-half, but also shut down Melbourne Storm super-star Greg Inglis for the entire match.

Berrigan continues to polay at hooker.

Berrigan is also a regular on the Australian representative teams, playing twelve games of State of Origin for the Queensland Maroons and five test matches for Australia. Berrigan is usually on the bench for most of these games because of his wide skills at numerous positions. However he has played on the starting side. He was selected in the 2006 Tri-Nations side for Australia and played in the final which Australia won.

• First Grade Debut: Round 11, Brisbane v. Balmain at Leichhardt, May 16, 1999
• 2006 Clive Churchill Medal Winner

Berrigan resides with his parents in Keperra in Brisbane's north west. Shaun is good friends with team mate Justin Hodges. He is the younger brother of Broncos former teammate Barry Berrigan.

• Shaun Berrigan NRL Profile
• State of Origin Offical website Rugby League Player Stats
  

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Preceded by Scott Prince (Wests Tigers)

Clive Churchill Medallist 2006

Succeeded by Incumbent