Shane Drahm (born 29 August 1977) is an Australian former

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player of Aboriginal descent. His usual positions were

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or halfback. Drahm played for

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and

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in rugby sevens, but went on to represent

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in test rugby and played most of his professional rugby career in that country. He is the current head coach of the First XV at

Brisbane Boys College Brisbane Boys' College (BBC) is an independent, Presbyterian and Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Toowong, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Rugby career

Drahm made his

debut in 1997 for the

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. He played four seasons in Brisbane before moving to England in 2001, playing for

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then

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. He joined

Worcester Warriors Worcester Warriors are a professional rugby union club based in Worcester, England. They most recently played in Premiership Rugby, the top division of English rugby union, before being suspended by the Rugby Football Union, RFU in September 2 ...

in the summer of 2005, and was an integral part of the team. He racked up a number of kicking records in the

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. Drahm qualified to represent

on residency grounds and was capped twice in 2006. Drahm moved to Japan in 2008 and played the last three seasons of his career with

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. He returned to Brisbane in 2011.

After rugby

Drahm worked briefly in sports management before taking on assistant coaching positions in Premier Rugby; firstly at

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and then the

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club in Brisbane. He went on to become the interim head coach of the GPS Premier Grade team during the 2014 season Drahm has also coached schoolboy rugby at

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and

. He was the director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland in 2015. Drahm plays golf at Keperra Country Golf Club in Queensland and is a scratch golfer under the GA handicap system.

Rugby career

After rugby

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