Rugby Legend George Gregan Visits Clare Mount

The Clare Mount Community were delighted and honoured to welcome a rugby legend to school earlier today!

George Gregan played 139 times for the Australian Rugby Union International team, including 59 appearances as captain. He was a World Cup winner, in Wales, in 1999 and, when he retired from international rugby, he was the most capped Australian player ever!

George is still passionate about sport, health and fitness and he was with us, today, to promote the benefits of strength and conditioning using a new piece of fitness technology called the 'Aquacore.' Earlier, this year, we installed cutting-edge 'KO8-Systems' in our newly refurbished fitness suite and the Aquacore equipment will add another, brilliant, element to our work with our students in improving their strength, flexibility, proprioception and muscular endurance. George was joined, today, by Kieran Owens, founder of KO8, and we are delighted to be working with both Kieran and George to improve the health and wellbeing of our own students - and hopefully other young people in more of our local and regional schools.

During George's visit, today, he led two rugby and fitness coaching sessions for different student groups before taking questions from the students about his career in rugby. Clare Mount is the first school in the country to be using the Aquacore - which not only benefits our pupils physically - many of our students, today, found the sound of the water and colour appealing to their senses. We hope this is the start of a long and fruitful partnership.

Thank you, George and Kieran for an inspirational day!