Jim Lenehan

Early life

A grazier's son, Lenehan was born and raised in the Riverina town of Narrandera near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He was sent to boarding school in Sydney at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview. He was a schoolboy hurdler of some note at the GPS athletics level. In the 1956 GPS athletics competition, he won the open shot put with 57 feet, 21 inches, and the open 120 yards hurdles in 14.5 seconds. Riverview legend has it that the shot put hit the picket fence some way up and so the record could only be measured to the fence. His shot put record stood until 1999 and his hurdles unbeaten until 2009. After school his rugby career continued with the Wagga Wagga Waratahs and the Narrandera Rugby Club.