Nigel Thomas Kassulke (born 2 August 1961) is an Australian former
rugby union
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international.
Kassulke was born in
Beaudesert, Queensland
Beaudesert ( Yugambeh: ''Yilbagan'') is a rural town and locality in the Scenic Rim Region of Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Beaudesert had a population of 6,752 people.
Beaudesert is the administrative centre for the Scenic R ...
and boarded at
Marist College Ashgrove
Marist College Ashgrove (abbreviated as MCA) is an Independent school, independent Roman Catholicism in Australia, Roman Catholic Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding primary school, primary and secondary school, secondary school for Sin ...
, where he receiving coaching from former Wallaby
Barry Honan. He played in the school's 1978 1st XV premiership team.
An outside centre, Kassulke gained Australian Under-21s representative honours in 1982 and was capped twice for the
Wallabies
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, both home Tests against
Canada
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in 1985. He scored a try on Test debut in Sydney. A knee injury suffered in the second Test at Ballymore kept him on the sidelines for over a year and cruelled his international hopes.
See also
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List of Australia national rugby union players
List of Australia national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Australia national rugby union team.
Note that the "position" column lists the position at which the player made his Test debut, not necessarily the posit ...
References
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1961 births
Living people
Australian rugby union players
Australia international rugby union players
Sportspeople from Beaudesert, Queensland
Rugby union players from Queensland
Rugby union centres
People educated at Marist College Ashgrove
Queensland rugby union team players
20th-century Australian sportsmen