Brett Sheehan (born 16 September 1979) is an Australian

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

and

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer. He was also included in Australia's squad for matches during the 2006 Tri Nations Series. Sheehan previously played for the

Queensland Reds The Queensland Reds is the rugby union team based in Brisbane for the Australian state of Queensland that competes in the Southern Hemisphere's Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996, they were a representative team selected from the rugby union ...

, playing four Super 12 matches for them in 2005. He then moved back to Sydney to play for the Waratahs for the 2006 season. At the conclusion of the 2008 season Brett announced that he would be moving to the

Western Force The Western Force is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia, currently competing in Super Rugby, Super Rugby Pacific. They previously played in Super Rugby from 2006 until they were axed from the competitio ...

franchise. He earned a call-up into the

Wallaby A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized Macropodidae, macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same Taxonomy (biology), taxon ...

squad, during the coaching era of John Connolly. Sheehan has also played

in the past, having played for a number clubs in the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

, such as the

Brisbane Broncos The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Red Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) and play their home games at ...

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Manly club debuted in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League sea ...

and

South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club, also known as the South Sydney Rabbitohs, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales, Maroubra that competes in the Nat ...

References

External links

Western Force profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheehan, Brett 1979 births Living people Australia international rugby union players Australian rugby league players Australian rugby union players Australian expatriate rugby union players in England New South Wales Waratahs players People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill Sportspeople from Geraldton Queensland Reds players Rugby league halfbacks Rugby union scrum-halves South Sydney Rabbitohs players Sportsmen from Western Australia Wasps RFC players Western Force players Rugby union players from Western Australia Footballers who switched code