Around the Ground: OCs at Easts Rugby Club
It is their ties to Cranbrook, to the game of rugby and to each other, that makes Easts Rugby Club the perfect meeting spot for our Old Cranbrookians.
Edward Schiller (OC 2015)
After school, I went to live in England for a year, doing a gap year in London, which was incredible working in a school there as a teacher’s assistant and doing some sport coaching. Then I went to Sydney Uni and did an arts degree and recently I started working in healthcare PR at Ogilvy. When I got back from England in 2017 my good mate from Cranbrook, Declan, got me playing at Easts in the lower grades and I love it. I keep in touch with a lot of my friends from Cranbrook, because we had a great year group in 2015 and I’m very grateful for all my friends I met at school.
Jake Tierney (OC 2012)
After school, I studied sport and exercise management at UTS but when I finished that I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with it. So, I went into the family business, which is horticulture, and have been working for Alpine Nurseries at Dural for the last two and half years. I played for Easts straight out of school and am still kicking around the lower grades. I just love my sport – I love my golf and tennis and I love surfing and swimming, I love my table tennis, squash, and I love backgammon and chess – anything to do with any board games.
Judd Harvey (OC 2013)
I did a gap year with my best mates from Cranbrook around Europe for six months, then I went to Sydney University, and then worked at AMP and Perpetual for a few years. My family owns a few pubs/hotels in town, so I joined that business in January 2020 and I’m the group general manager. We’ve got Three Wise Monkeys, Cheers Bar, Scruffy Murphy’s, and Laughing Buddha and they’re all really welcoming venues with people from all over the world. I’m also coaching a suburban rugby team called the Sydney Harbour Oysters which has been good fun.
Will Bailey (OC 2013)
I’m a high school teacher now at St Catherine’s, teaching history and legal studies. Cranbrook was a pretty good experience and that was the main reason I wanted to do it. Teachers like Anne Byrnes, Thommo, and Mark McAndrew were all just great people and it seemed like a pretty good life, so I’m doing the same thing. On the weekends I watch a lot of footy – my playing career ended after school. And I’ve done a fair amount of travelling and a good chunk of us made the decision at school to have a year off afterwards.
Declan Quin (OC 2015)
I went to uni and did sport and exercise management, but now I’m studying horticulture and I want to get into landscape design. I was living at Palm Beach during COVID and was really getting into my gardening and was really enjoying it and so I thought I would see where it goes. I play fourth grade at Easts and I go surfing when I can, but between working and playing rugby, it chews up a lot of my time.
Grant Lodge (OC 1986)
So, I’m a carpenter working on houses, which keeps me busy, and I’m married with two kids – an 18-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl. I had a footy career at Easts for about eight to ten years, playing first grade where we lost a couple of grand finals to Randwick but, you know, they had 13 Wallabies in the team! Some highlights for me were probably playing Australian Sevens and with the Waratahs. I used to surf all the time until I had kids but now the knees are gone.
