South Grafton’s Jamal Laurie has been named at fullback for the Group One U15 Taipans representative side for this weekend’s New South Wales Country Age Championships that are being held in Wagga Wagga.
In 2019 Jamal Laurie was selected in the Australian Secondary Schools U15 Invitational side for the ASSRL U15 Championships starting on the wing including on Day One in a 36 – 6 win over the Northern Territory.
Jamal Laurie started the 2019 season up an age group being the Group One U16.5 competition for South Grafton and was part of their Round One side that defeated a Ballina side containing Titans contracted Rowan Mansfield 26 – 4.
Jamal Laurie was also part of the U16.5 South Grafton Rebels side that played Casino RSM in Round Three as a curtain raiser to the Titans NRL match at Canterbury. Hopefully not the last time that Jamal Laurie plays on the ground.
Jamal Laurie scored his first points of the Group One U16.5 season when he kicked two conversions in Round Eleven against Kyogle.
Jamal Laurie’s 2019 season came to an end when South Grafton went down 21 – 14 to Ballina in the Group One U16.5 Preliminary Final.
In 2019 Jamal Laurie also represented the mid-North Coast U15 rugby league side.