Mark McGaw

Mark McGaw

Personal information
Nickname	Sparkles
Playing information
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	93 kg (14 st 9 lb)
Position	Centre, Wing
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1984–92	Cronulla-Sutherland	155	36	0	0	144
1993	Penrith Panthers	16	3	0	0	12
1994–95	South Sydney	22	3	0	0	12
	Total	193	42	0	0	168
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1987–91	New South Wales	13	6	0	0	24
1988–91	Australia	3	4	0	0	16

Mark McGaw is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s. He achieved national and state representative honours in the sport and following his retirement became one of the Gladiators in the Australian version of the TV show. McGaw's usual position was at centre. McGaw is also the current coach of the North Sydney Bears SG Ball team for 2016.

Rugby league

McGaw played his club football for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Penrith Panthers and South Sydney Rabbitohs. He played for Australia in their victory over New Zealand at the 1985–1988 Rugby League World Cup Final in Auckland. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. He is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 590.

Career after Rugby league

Mark McGaw appeared as "Hammer" on the Australian version of the TV show Gladiators from 1995 to 1997, as well as joining other rugby league players such as Paul Vautin, Paul Sironen and Darryl Brohman in modelling for Lowes Menswear. Mark McGaw is founder of Mark McGaw Institute of Sports Science.

Defamation case

On 2 November 2006 the Supreme Court of New South Wales awarded McGaw $385,000 for a defamatory story Today Tonight broadcast in June 2003. The Supreme Court jury found that the story made two defamatory imputations: that McGaw was "a man of dangerous domestic violence", and that he "bashed his lover so severely that she was hospitalised with horrific injuries".

External links

• Mark McGaw Institute of sports science