Berrick Barnes
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Berrick Barnes is an Australian rugby union
footballer with the NSW Waratahs in the Super Rugby competition. His usual position is fly-half or inside centre and he previously played for the Queensland Reds
.
Barnes was included in Australia's squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup
and made his debut as a replacement in Australia's opening pool game, against , coming on as a replacement for fly-half Stephen Larkham
. He scored his first international try within three minutes of taking the field and followed it with a second in the closing minutes of the game. He started as fly-half in Australia's next two pool games, against and , scoring a drop goal
in each game, before being rested for the final pool game. He returned as the starting fly-half in the quarter-final against , which Australia lost.
and Kingaroy State.
Barnes was a school state champion for his age division in Swimming
with his preferred stroke Butterfly
. He also excelled in Golf
and Cricket
.
Barnes began his professional sporting career straight out of school Barnes was scouted by the Brisbane Broncos
, Queensland Reds
, and Queensland Bulls
before settling on the Broncos for the up coming 2004 season. When contracted by the Broncos where he played QLD Cup for the Broncos' feeder club Toowoomba Clydesdales
where he played at five-eighth
His junior club was the Kingaroy Red Ants
Barnes made his debut in the National Rugby League
competition in 2005, aged 18, coming off the bench in the round 8 game against the Manly Sea Eagles he then went onto make 9 appearances for the Broncos, scoring 1 try
Barnes also played for the Queensland Under 19 Team.
He also represented Australia as part of the 2004 Junior Kangaroos team, playing the Papua New Guinea
Kumuls in Townsville
.
After his first run-on start with the Broncos he opted to switch codes to rugby union
with the Queensland Reds
in the Super 14
competition.
from 2006 to 2009 and made 45 appearances, scoring 6 tries, 18 conversions, 7 penalties, and 6 drop goals.
In 2009 he was captain of the Reds side for the first half of the season whilst James Horwill
recovered from injury.
He then joined the Waratahs for the 2010 season. where he has and has made 23 appearances, scoring 1 try, 22 conversions, 19 penalties, and 3 drop goals.
He has since re-signed til the end of 2013.
During the 2011 season Barnes suffered from a condition called "Footballer's Migraine" due to repeated concussions sustained during the Super Rugby season with the Waratahs.
On 14 June 2011, Barnes took indefinite leave from all forms of Rugby to combat his condition.
He returned to Rugby on 23 July 2011 for the Shute Shield
side Sydney University
, against Japan. After only 3 minutes on the field, and with his first touch of the ball, Barnes scored his first Test try. He scored again, five minutes from the end of the game, which Australia won 91–3. After the match, in which he excelled, he said:
Barnes was originally selected as a replacement for Australia's next game, against at the Millennium Stadium
, but when Stephen Larkham
injured his knee, Barnes was told on the morning of the game that he would be the starting fly-half. He played the full match and made a significant contribution to Australia's 32–20 victory, setting up a try for Matt Giteau
and then scoring a drop goal
from 32 metres. He added another drop goal in Australia's next pool game, a 55–12 win over Fiji that assured Australia a place in the quarter-finals. Barnes was rested for the final pool game but returned to the starting line-up for the quarter-final match against England, which resulted in Australia's exit from the tournament. To date, Barnes has scored 2 tries and 2 drop goals in four test appearances.
By 2008, he had become a key member for the Wallabies until a shoulder injury intervened his season in the historical victory over the Springboks in the Tri-Nations.
He was selected on the 2008 Spring Tour side where in the first 8 minutes in the game vs Italy he tore a posterior cruciate ligament in his knee and was sent home.
In 2009 he was named Vice-Captain of the Wallabies side for the upcoming Spring Tour but was sent home after he rolled his ankle at a training session in Tokyo, Japan and sustained a syndesmosis injury
In 2010 he was dropped for the first game of the test season against Fiji however retained the next game against England. He then went onto play the entire Tri Nations series either starting or on the bench.
He was named Co-captain of the Australian Barbarians side against England that played in
Perth & Gosford.
He was named captain of the Wallabies on the 2010 Spring Tour for the midweek games against Leicester Tigers & Munster, where his standout performance on that tour was against Italy in Florence where he scored 22 points in that game
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
footballer with the NSW Waratahs in the Super Rugby competition. His usual position is fly-half or inside centre and he previously played for the Queensland Reds
Queensland Reds
The Queensland Reds represent Queensland in the sport of rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected on merit from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland...
.
Barnes was included in Australia's squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup
2007 Rugby World Cup
The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...
and made his debut as a replacement in Australia's opening pool game, against , coming on as a replacement for fly-half Stephen Larkham
Stephen Larkham
Stephen Larkham is an Australian rugby union footballer currently playing for the Ricoh Black Rams in Japan. He is best known for his career with the Brumbies in Super Rugby, for whom he played from the inception of the professional Super 12 in 1996 through 2007, and his long tenure with the...
. He scored his first international try within three minutes of taking the field and followed it with a second in the closing minutes of the game. He started as fly-half in Australia's next two pool games, against and , scoring a drop goal
Field goal (rugby)
A drop goal, also referred to as a dropped goal or field goal, is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league. A drop goal cannot be scored in open play by punting the ball, and instead must be scored by drop kicking the ball over the crossbar and between the uprights. After the...
in each game, before being rested for the final pool game. He returned as the starting fly-half in the quarter-final against , which Australia lost.
Early life
Barnes was raised in Kingaroy, Queensland. He attended Ipswich Grammar SchoolIpswich Grammar School
Ipswich Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for boys, located in Ipswich, a city situated on the Bremer River in South East Queensland, Australia...
and Kingaroy State.
Barnes was a school state champion for his age division in Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
with his preferred stroke Butterfly
Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
. He also excelled in Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
and Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
.
Barnes began his professional sporting career straight out of school Barnes was scouted by the Brisbane Broncos
Brisbane Broncos
The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. Founded in 1988, the Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League premiership. They have won six premierships and two...
, Queensland Reds
Queensland Reds
The Queensland Reds represent Queensland in the sport of rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected on merit from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland...
, and Queensland Bulls
Queensland Bulls
The Queensland cricket team, nicknamed the Bulls, are the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket team in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments:*Sheffield Shield, 4-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926/27 season...
before settling on the Broncos for the up coming 2004 season. When contracted by the Broncos where he played QLD Cup for the Broncos' feeder club Toowoomba Clydesdales
Toowoomba Clydesdales
The Toowoomba Clydesdales are a rugby league football club based in Toowoomba, Queensland, named after the Scottish horse breed. They played in the Queensland Wizard Cup since the competition began in 1996 but no longer play in this competition....
where he played at five-eighth
His junior club was the Kingaroy Red Ants
Barnes made his debut in the National Rugby League
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...
competition in 2005, aged 18, coming off the bench in the round 8 game against the Manly Sea Eagles he then went onto make 9 appearances for the Broncos, scoring 1 try
Barnes also played for the Queensland Under 19 Team.
He also represented Australia as part of the 2004 Junior Kangaroos team, playing the Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
Kumuls in Townsville
Townsville, Queensland
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australia's largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast, with a 2006 census...
.
After his first run-on start with the Broncos he opted to switch codes to rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
with the Queensland Reds
Queensland Reds
The Queensland Reds represent Queensland in the sport of rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected on merit from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland...
in the Super 14
Super 14
Super Rugby is the largest and pre-eminent professional Rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere...
competition.
Super Rugby Career
Barnes played for the Queensland RedsQueensland Reds
The Queensland Reds represent Queensland in the sport of rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected on merit from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland...
from 2006 to 2009 and made 45 appearances, scoring 6 tries, 18 conversions, 7 penalties, and 6 drop goals.
In 2009 he was captain of the Reds side for the first half of the season whilst James Horwill
James Horwill
James Horwill is an Australian rugby union player, a national and provincial representative Lock forward. He captained the Queensland Reds to a season victory in the 2011 in the Super 15 competition, his sixth season played at that level and debuted as Wallaby captain in the deciding game of the...
recovered from injury.
He then joined the Waratahs for the 2010 season. where he has and has made 23 appearances, scoring 1 try, 22 conversions, 19 penalties, and 3 drop goals.
He has since re-signed til the end of 2013.
During the 2011 season Barnes suffered from a condition called "Footballer's Migraine" due to repeated concussions sustained during the Super Rugby season with the Waratahs.
On 14 June 2011, Barnes took indefinite leave from all forms of Rugby to combat his condition.
He returned to Rugby on 23 July 2011 for the Shute Shield
Shute Shield
The Shute Shield is a rugby union competition in Sydney, New South Wales. It is the premier grade rugby trophy in NSW rugby. The Shute Shield is awarded at the end of the Sydney Club Rugby season to the team that wins the Grand Final...
side Sydney University
International career
Barnes made his international debut aged 21 in Australia's first pool match of the 2007 Rugby World Cup2007 Rugby World Cup
The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...
, against Japan. After only 3 minutes on the field, and with his first touch of the ball, Barnes scored his first Test try. He scored again, five minutes from the end of the game, which Australia won 91–3. After the match, in which he excelled, he said:
The crowd was unbelievable. It felt like a Boxing Day TestBoxing Day TestThe Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match hosted in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia involving the Australian cricket team and an opposing national team which is touring Australia that summer. It begins annually on Boxing Day and is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground...
. Standing in that tunnel, I've never heard a roar like it. Standing next to the Japanese as we waited to walk out was pretty special. I was giving a few 'yahoos'. The boys gave me a bit about that. I was pumped. I wasn't going to hold it in.
Barnes was originally selected as a replacement for Australia's next game, against at the Millennium Stadium
Millennium Stadium
The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and also frequently stages games of the Wales national football team, but is also host to many other large scale events, such as the Super Special Stage...
, but when Stephen Larkham
Stephen Larkham
Stephen Larkham is an Australian rugby union footballer currently playing for the Ricoh Black Rams in Japan. He is best known for his career with the Brumbies in Super Rugby, for whom he played from the inception of the professional Super 12 in 1996 through 2007, and his long tenure with the...
injured his knee, Barnes was told on the morning of the game that he would be the starting fly-half. He played the full match and made a significant contribution to Australia's 32–20 victory, setting up a try for Matt Giteau
Matt Giteau
Matthew Giteau is an Australian rugby union footballer, a former international who now plays for the French Top 14 side Toulon. He attended St Edmund's College, Canberra, which has produced other Wallabies including George Gregan, Matt Henjak and the former rugby league star and now coach Ricky...
and then scoring a drop goal
Field goal (rugby)
A drop goal, also referred to as a dropped goal or field goal, is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league. A drop goal cannot be scored in open play by punting the ball, and instead must be scored by drop kicking the ball over the crossbar and between the uprights. After the...
from 32 metres. He added another drop goal in Australia's next pool game, a 55–12 win over Fiji that assured Australia a place in the quarter-finals. Barnes was rested for the final pool game but returned to the starting line-up for the quarter-final match against England, which resulted in Australia's exit from the tournament. To date, Barnes has scored 2 tries and 2 drop goals in four test appearances.
By 2008, he had become a key member for the Wallabies until a shoulder injury intervened his season in the historical victory over the Springboks in the Tri-Nations.
He was selected on the 2008 Spring Tour side where in the first 8 minutes in the game vs Italy he tore a posterior cruciate ligament in his knee and was sent home.
In 2009 he was named Vice-Captain of the Wallabies side for the upcoming Spring Tour but was sent home after he rolled his ankle at a training session in Tokyo, Japan and sustained a syndesmosis injury
In 2010 he was dropped for the first game of the test season against Fiji however retained the next game against England. He then went onto play the entire Tri Nations series either starting or on the bench.
He was named Co-captain of the Australian Barbarians side against England that played in
Perth & Gosford.
He was named captain of the Wallabies on the 2010 Spring Tour for the midweek games against Leicester Tigers & Munster, where his standout performance on that tour was against Italy in Florence where he scored 22 points in that game