Shaun Berrigan

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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	Centre
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.

1 Career
- 1.1 2006 Season
- 1.2 Representative
2 Away from Rugby League
3 Career highlights
4 External link

[edit] Career

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. Berrigans regular position is Centre but he can play a number of back-line positions and hooker.

[edit] 2006 Season

He played his 150th first grade games for the club in 2006. He started the year in the centre position but injury's to the Bronco's fulltime hookers, Michael Ennis and Barry Berrigan, made coach Wayne Bennett move Shaun Berrigan to Hooker. This has been a success, with former great Peter Sterling saying that it brings a new dimension to the Broncos game not seen for a while. As hooker, he played excellent in the grand final, winning the game and the Clive Churchill Medal. In the grand final, Berrigan was superb in dummy-half but most of all, shut down, Melbourne Storm super-star Greg Inglis for the entire match.

[edit] Representative

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

[edit] Away from Rugby League

He resides with his parents in Keperra in Brisbanes north west. Shaun is good friends with team mate Justin Hodges. He is the younger brother of Barry Berrigan