Cricket 12 yrs champions

Boys: THE CHALLENGE CUP.
One of the best wicketkeepers produced by Queensland and never to represent his country was Lew Cooper. Lew’s whole life revolved around the sport of Cricket. Besides being Queensland’s Sheffield Shield captain, Lew held many administrative positions in that State. Three of the more significant were: President-Queensland State Primary Schools Cricket Association, Secretary-Queensland Cricket Association and Secretary Queensland Cricket Club. When the Australia Day trophy for interstate primary cricket was accidently damaged beyond repair in the early 70’s, Lew donated a replacement trophy which came to be known as the Challenge Cup. This is the prized trophy that interstate primary schools cricket teams aim to bring home to their states. A school teacher for many years in his younger days, Lew was one of the best coaches of a junior sporting team in Queensland in the past thirty-five years. A career highlight was when he coached a Queensland rugby league team that did not have a single point scored against them in a seven match tour of New South Wales.

Previous Players.
The following are among those players who played in an Australian School Sports Council Primary
Cricket Exchange and have gone on to play for Australia in Test Cricket or One Day Internationals: Greg
Blewett , Darren Lehmann, Jason Gillespie, Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh ,Steve Smith, Greg Mathews,
Dirk Welham, Adam Gilchrist ,Michael Slater, Shane Lee, Brett Lee, Gavin Robinson, Nathan Bracken,
Michael Clark, Craig McDermott, Ian Healy, Stuart Law, Martin Love, Wayde Seycombe, Michael
Kasprowicvz, Phillip Jacques, Steve Smith, Phillip Hughes, David Warner.

Girls: THE GRAHAME BARRETT SHIELD.
This event commenced in January, 2000 with three States competing, NSW, Victoria and South Australia. The event was initially held at Manly NSW and the host State entered a second team to complete the draw. It was at this Exchange that the decision was taken to name the event after the NSWPSSA Cricket Convener, Grahame Barrett, who had worked continuously to establish Girls Cricket, both in NSW and nationally. The following year NSW again hosted the event at Cobram/Barooga with the same teams participating however, in January 2002 the Australian Capital Territory entered for the first time and the Girls Exchange officially became a recognized School Sport Australia event. These four teams have competed since, with Queensland entered the Exchange for the first time in 2004.