Darren Junee

Darren Kevin Junee (born 2 July 1969) is an Australian former rugby union and rugby league footballer. He was an Australian rugby union representative and had a first grade rugby league career with the Sydney Roosters in the NSWRFL competition.

Family and early life Junee is the son of Australian rugby league representative Kevin Junee. He was educated at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill from 1981 to 1987 where he played rugby union and featured in the school's first XVs of 1986 and 1987.

Rugby union career Junee made the Australian schoolboys' rugby union representative side of 1987 and the Australian U21s and the AIS U21s sides in 1988, 1989 and 1990. His club rugby was with the Eastwood Rugby Club and later the Randwick DRUFC. His league career was hampered by injury and in 1997 he was dropped in favour of the new Roosters arrival Jack Elsegood. He is perhaps best known for a solo, chip and chase try scored for the Roosters in an enthralling victory over the Brisbane Broncos in front of 35,000 people on a Monday night in 1996, that has since gone down in Rugby League folklore.

Professional career From 2001 to 2018 Junee was a science teacher and boarding house master at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill where he coached various sports including rugby. In 2019 he commenced a role as Head of School House at Sydney Church of England Grammar School.