Marist College Ashgrove
27°26′25″S 152°58′41″E / 27.440257°S 152.977967°E
Marist College Ashgrove is a Roman Catholic day and boarding school for boys, located in Ashgrove, a northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the brother school to Mt St Michael's College Ashgrove, an all girls day school, situated just around the corner.
The college has a primary school for students in grades 5 to 7, and a high school for students in grades 8 to 12.
Campus
The college is situated on a sprawling 26 hectare campus and includes such facilities as:
- 9 cricket / rugby / soccer /athletics ovals
- A gymnasium
- Weights room
- Junior cricket nets
- An Olympic sized swimming pool
- Tennis courts
- A Performing and Visual Arts center which houses a 310 seat theatre.
- Three distinct houses that contain the five boarding residences.
- A Hall of Fame more commonly known as the Trophy Room
- Responsible Thinking Centre
Boarding school
Marist College Ashgrove also offers a Boarding School catering for students from grades 7 to 12. The college currently caters for nearly 210 boarders. The boarding community includes many students from the Greater Brisbane Region and South-East Queensland, along with many country students from Outback Queensland and regional Australia. International students also board from as far away as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Saudi Arabia.
Crest & motto
The crest of the college was based on the design of the crest of St Joseph's College at Hunters Hill, Sydney. The four quadrants of the shield are filled with: the Marist Monogram, with its twelve stars, in the top left, the Southern Cross in the top right, the MCA logo in the bottom left and the lamp and book representing learning, in the bottom left.
The motto traditionally displayed above the crest, Viriliter Age (Act Manfully), was adopted in 1957 and is translated from Latin.
Notable alumni
- Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia[1]
- Sir Julius Chan, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
- Bill Ludwig, trade union leader
- Ray Meagher, (actor)
- Humphrey McQueen, Author and Historian
- Andrew McGahan, novelist
- Michael Bauer, novelist
- John Eales (rugby union player and former captain of the Australian Wallabies)
- John Connolly, former Wallabies coach
- Des Connor, former rugby union player
- Daniel Herbert, former rugby union player
- Anthony Herbert, former rugby union player
- Daniel Heenan (rugby union)
- Harry Amos Moore (Professional Rugby Player), (rugby league)
- Christian Layland, football media personality
- Corey Brown (footballer)
- Sean O'Brien, Australian professional windsurfer and Olympic Sailing Team coach
- Pietro Figlioli, Olympian - Water Polo
- Matthew Hayden, Australian and Queensland cricketer
- Ben Griffin, soccer player
- Lev Susany, Australian powerlifter and Commonwealth record holder
- Brendan McKibbin, rugby union player - scrum half - NSW Waratahs
2008 Blue and Gold Ball
The College holds an annual "Blue and Gold" ball with the college's premier Big Band being the only regular performance. In 2008, Australian jazz musician James Morrison performed with the big band along with his own band.
See also
References
- ^ Marriner, Cosima (April 27, 2007). "It's private - the school he wants to forget". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1.
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