Ed Craig

Ed Craig (born 20 July 1996) is a teacher at SHORE school in North Sydney where he teaches PDHPE and Christian studies. Previously, Craig was a PDHPE teacher at Barker College in Sydney. He has played rugby union for the NSW Waratahs the Melbourne Rebels and the Queensland Reds. He played for Australian Schoolboys and Australian Under 20s and for Sydney in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). Craig is now playing lower grade games with Norths in the Sydney Shute Shield competition, having retired for his home club Eastwood, and coaching Shore schoolboy first XV forwards and AAGPS representative rugby teams. His position is hooker.

Early life and junior rugby

Ed Craig (Edward James Craig) was born in Sydney (Eastwood) in Australia and played junior club rugby with Hillview Rugby Club (now Central Eastwood), junior rep rugby with Eastwood Rugby Club and school rugby with Epping Boys High School.

He played in the EBHS 1st XV (2012-2014), Combined High Schools (CHS) 1st XV and Combined States in the 2013 Australian Schoolboy Rugby Championships. In 2014, Craig captained the CHS 1st XV and played in the NSW 1st XV which won the Australian Schoolboy Rugby Championships. He played for Australian Schoolboys in their NZ tour 2014 against Fiji and New Zealand. Craig won the Volvo Australian Schools Rugby Scholarship in 2014.

Rugby career Craig was part of the NSW Waratahs Gen Blue squad and played for NSW in the Australian Super Under 20s Championship. In 2016 he joined the Australian Under 20s side for the World Rugby U20s Championships in Manchester, England, where he played against Scotland and NZ.

Craig plays club rugby for Eastwood in Sydney's Shute Shield competition. He played colts 1st XV (2014-2015), and then 1st and 2nd Grade behind Eastwood’s two contracted NSW Waratah Super Rugby hookers Hugh Roach and Damien Fitzpatrick (2016-2018). Craig played hooker for Eastwood’s 1st Grade side (2019-2022).

He played for the Greater Sydney Rams in the National Rugby Competition (NRC) (2017) and the Sydney NRC (2019). Craig has played 150 games for Eastwood - 130 in first grade - with 41 tries and 205 points.

In February 2020 Craig got his first Super Rugby cap In October 2020 he finished Eastwood's Shute Shield season with a narrow Grand Final loss to Gordon. In November 2020 he signed with the Melbourne Rebels for the 2021 Super Rugby season,

Outside rugby Craig has a Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) from the University of Sydney. He teaches Christian Studies and PDHPE and coaches rugby at Sydney's SHORE school.

Super Rugby statistics

Season Team Games Starts Sub Mins Tries Cons Pens Drops Points Yel Red 2020 2 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 2021 AU 2 0 2 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2021 TT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2022 TT 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Total 5 0 5 66 1 0 0 0 5 0 0