One front rower that I expect will be in line to start in Round One of the 2019 Hastings Deering’s Colts competition for Burleigh is Logan Cootes who in 2018 was a try scoring machine in the Gold Coast Rugby League U19 competition for the Mudgeeraba Redbacks.
Logan Cootes finished as the GCRL U19 competitions leading try scorer with fourteen tries from just fifteen matches. Logan Cootes scored an impressive five doubles in 2018 with those doubles coming against Runaway Bay, Bilambil, Burleigh, Beaudesert and Helensvale. Logan Cootes also scored in matches against Ormeau, Southport, Helensvale and Bilambil.
Earlier in 2018 Logan Cootes was part of the Burleigh Bears MM Cup side but was not involved in any matches.
In 2017 Logan Cootes played in the MM Cup competition for the Tweed Heads Seagulls as well as for the Mudgeeraba Redbacks in the GCJRL U17 Division One competition.
For Tweed Heads in the 2017 MM Cup competition, Logan Cootes played in five of the six matches. Logan Cootes started the first two rounds from the interchange bench before breaking into the starting line-up in Round Three against the eventual MM Cup Champions the Wester Mustangs. Logan Cootes was also in the starting line-up in Rounds Six and Seven before missing Round Eight. Round Seven saw Logan Cootes cross for his only try of the 2017 MM Cup competition when he scored against the North’s Devils.
For the Mudgeeraba Redbacks in the U17 Division One competition on 2017, Logan Cootes played in nine matches, scoring five tries, including doubles in consecutive matches in June against Bilambil and Runaway Bay and in late July, Logan Cootes also scored against Runaway Bay again.
Logan Cootes also played for Coombabah State High School in the Super Six and GIO Cup School boy competitions in 2017.
Logan Cootes in earlier seasons has played for Titans Development squads including at the U16 level against Samoa at Pizzey Park