More than 100 of our students have been selected to a Victorian State Team and competed in National Championships all over Australia.

The earliest we can find on record is 1961 and 162, when Robyn Tansey and Elizabeth Hooper made the Victorian girls Hockey team.

Milly O’Kane is our latest. She wore the Big V dress for the Under 17s at the 2025 National Netball Championships in Sydney and got Bronze. She became the 1st Wangaratta girl to make a State Netball team in 30 years, signifying how difficult those teams are to make.

Prior to O’Kane, State Netballers were Kim Welch (1995, 1993, 1992), Lori Delaney (1990), Kate Morris and Narelle Young (Vice Captain) in 1985, Lisa Wilson (1982, 1984, also Australian team in 1982), Robyn Townsend (1982, Captain, also Australian team), Megan Hume (1980, 1981), Rosemary Brown (1980, 1981), Joanne Cesa and Kerry Fitzgerald (1980), Kate Clarke (1978), Sheree Hartwig (1975) and Gretchen Hartwig (1973).

Incredibly, we had 3 girls in the same Under 18 Netball team in 1980 – Brown, Cesa and Hume. That year they, along with Kate Clarke who had also previously made a State team, led our Senior Girls team (with 4 of the 8 players being State players) to the All High School State Title.

It’s been over 20 years since we had a player make a State Football team. That was 2005, when Daniel Boyle played Under 16 Vic Country.

The year prior, a record four boys made Vic Country. Michael Davidson was in the Under 18 team, while Luke Morgan (Year 10), Casey McDonald (Year 10) and Boyle (Year 9) played in the Under 15 side. Morgan was Vice Captain and won the team’s Best & Fairest on 34 votes, while Boyle was 3rd on 27.

The year prior (2003), Michael “Juice” Newton (Year 11) and Matt Graham (Year 10) played in the U16 carnival in Adelaide,

This purple patch led to significant School Football success. Morgan and McDonald had two years before led our Year 8 team to the 2002 State Title – Morgan was Captain, McDonald B.O.G in the Final. Newton, Davidson and Graham in 2003 were all in our Senior team that won both the State Title and Herald Shield – our only team to ever win the Double. Graham kicked the winning goal late in the State Final against Hawthorn legend Jordan Lewis’ Box Hill High School, to give us the Title by 3 points

Newton of course would later play 28 AFL matches for Melbourne, and Boyle (who also made a Primary School Vic team, making it 3 total) would be rookie drafted to Port Adelaide.

Future Geelong champion Steve Johnson made the Under 18 Vic Country team in 2001 (and was All-Australian). Others to make it on their way to the AFL were Luke Mullins (1998 Under 15, 1999 Under 16, Under 18 “emergency” in 2000, as well as Primary Vic 1996), Sean O’Keefe (1998 Under 16, 2000 Under 18, as well as an Under 17 AIS All-Australian tour of Ireland 1999), and Darren Steele (1982 Under 16, 1983 Under 17 as well as All-Australian).

Others to make Vic Country Football teams were Riley Minns (2001 Under 16), Rhyece O’Neill (1999 Under 16), Rohan Graham (Under 18 in both 1995 and 1996, once as Vice Captain), Craig Patrick (1987 Under 17) and Andrew Douglas (1981 Under 15 and All-Australian Full Back).