John Cartwright was born on the 9th of August 1965 in Penrith New South Wales to Merv Cartwright and Carole Cartwright. Cartwright is best known for playing rugby league for the Penrith Panthers, NSW Blues and the Australian Kangaroos. John Cartwright grew up in a suburb in Sydney called Penrith. At the age of seven years old Cartwright played his first game for St Mary’s junior rugby league club. When he was young he attended Braddock Public School. He later attended Nepean High School. The most influential person in his life was his father Merv. Merv was part of the first ever Penrith Team. Merv was his coach when he was young. Not only was Merv the coach he was also the groundsman which gave Cartwright even more time to practice his skills. …show more content…
Cartwright made the Australian Rugby League Schoolboys team when he was eighteen.
This was the start of his extraordinary playing career. He made his debut in 1985 when he was twenty years old but didn’t get a lot of game time until 1987 when he was a regular player. In 1988 him and his second rower partner Mark Geyer were the best second rowers in the game as a pair they were unstoppable. In 1989 after Ian Roberts was hurt he had to play in the front row for NSW where he wasn’t suited subsequently he was dropped after that game. In 1990 he played for the Australian team that toured Great Britain. Cartwright had an injury riddled 1991 season but he still managed to win the 1991 Grand Final with the Penrith Panthers. In 1992 Cartwright had a great representative season playing in all three of NSW games and once again playing in the Australian touring team. From 1993 – 1996 Cartwright spent a lot of time out of the game due to injury which forced him to retire at the end of the 1996 season. To top of Cartwright’s playing career he was also awarded the Dally M best second rower
award. After his retirement Cartwright was awarded the Australian sports medal for contribution to rugby league. Cartwright has had a great coaching career where he has won two Grand Finals, both as assistant coach. He was assistant coach when the Penrith Panthers won the 2003 Grand Final. After that Cartwright had a short stint as assistant coach to Ricky Stuart with the Sydney Roosters before he left to coach the American Rugby League team. Cartwright had some time out of coaching before he returned to be the Inaugural coach of the Gold Coast Titans in 2007. The Titans struggled in their first two years but soon enough Cartwright turned the team around and took them to the top four. Everything went downhill from there and they ended up running last a couple times. Cartwright left at the end of 2014 to go be the assistant coach of the North Queensland Cowboys. The Cowboys had some great players and with the help of Cartwright they ended up beating the Brisbane Broncos in one of the best grand finals ever. Some time after the grand final Cartwright announced that he will be the 2016 assistant coach of the Manly Sea Eagles with his good mate Trent Barrett. Today Cartwright is currently the assistant coach of the Manly Sea Eagles. Cartwright says that he tries to help young players that are coming through the ranks by teaching them about good nutrition and a dedicated training regime. Cartwright says to be a good rugby player you have to listen and you have to be willing to learn.
59 year old John Glover Roberts Jr, was born on January 27, 1955 in Buffalo, New York. He was the only son of John G. “Jack” Glover Sr. and Rosemary Podrasky Roberts. His ancestry was Irish, Welsh, and Czech (O'Dowd). In 1959 his family moved to Long Beach, Indiana where he attended first, a Catholic Elementary School (Notre Dame), and then a private Catholic boarding school (La Lumiere in La Porte, Indiana). John then entered Harvard with aspirations of becoming a history professor.
The Entrepreneurs I've gotten was the Jodrey Family. I will first talk about Roy A. Jodrey who was the one that started it then lead to his son John J.Jodrey.
Walter Payton was born in July 25, 1954. Son of Peter and Alyne Payton, Walter Payton was born in Colombia, Missouri. Walter’s father wasn’t really into football as much as people thought, Peter Payton was a semi-pro baseball player. Walter was had one older brother Eddie, who was born 3 years before Walter but in the near future wasn’t the one to be a football star. Eddie learned a lot about football from his dad, but when Walter was born, he knew he would have competition. At a very young age Walter and Eddie would have pickup games in the backyard. When Walter was 5 he started to play in a little league. Coaches were shocked to see Walter play football, almost every time he touched the football, touchdown. Not only his parents, but the players, and the coaches noticed that the harder Walter works he could go far.
John Trudell was born in Ohama, Nebraska on february 15,1946 where he was raised in small towns in Northern Nebraska near the southeast corner of South Dakota. The tribe he associates himself with is the Santee Sioux tribe (Nichols). In 1963, John was 17 years old in high school when he was called up to the principals office and was told that he had a lot of potential but that he needed to study hard to make something of himself. John felt disrespected because he felt like he had already made something of himself so after he left the meeting, he dropped out of school and this is when he joins the U.S. Navy. He served during the early years of the Vietnam War until 1967, where he would then go to college at San Bernadino Valley College in San Bernardino, California to study radio and broadcasting (Nichols). Years after that he will become a Native American Activist while joining two organizations named The Indians of All Tribes and the American Indian Movement.
Montana did not see much action until his sophomore season when he impressed his new coach in spring games before the regular season. He became the go-to guy late in the game during comeback situations. He led Notre Dame to two crucial comeback wins, including an incredible performance against Air Force that earned him the nickname “The Comeback Kid”---the nickname stuck to Montana for the rest of his career. He missed the entire 1976 season due to a separated shoulder but came back strong in 1977. Once again, he began the year low on the depth chart at number three, but due to an injury to the second string QB and Montana leading another comeback win, he officially became the starting QB for the first time. Montana did not disappoint as...
Nathan Hale was born on June sixth, 1755, in Coventry, Connecticut. Richard Hale and Elizabeth Hale were his parents. Nathan had nine siblings. Enoch Hale was the most acknowledged sibling of Nathan Hale. Education was important to both of them. In addition to learning, Nathan was interested in wrestling, football, broad jumping, and women. Resources state that he was “the idol of all his acquaintances”, which was the reason for everyone’s admiration for him. This was one important part of Hale’s remembrance.
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Therefore, he was an Aborigine. Second, as an Aboriginal bloke, he experienced a situation, which was being separated with his family and is recently known as the Stolen Generations. Perkins (1975, p. 15) explained that at that time, part-Aboriginal children were removed from their family by government and he was taken to Adelaide. Third, he was a successful soccer player. According to Perkins (1975, p.), he played one of the best team, Budapest, he won an award once and he got an invitation from Liverpool, a soccer team of England.
Steve Irwin was born to Bob and Lyn Irwin on February 22, 1962. He was born in a town called Essendon, located on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. Steve’s parents both loved wildlife; his mother Lyn had made the Irwin home somewhat of a shelter for wildlife. Steve learned early on how to care and treat sick animals from his mother. His father, Bob, studied reptiles, collected snakes, and worked with crocodiles.
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