St Laurence's College

St Laurence's College (known colloquially as Lauries) is a private Catholic school for boys located in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1915. The school currently has an enrolment of over 1900 students from Year 5 to Year 12. St Laurence's is a College in the Edmund Rice Tradition. St Laurence's is currently associated with the Associated Independent Colleges sporting association.

Property

The school's main campus is located in the inner-city Brisbane suburb of South Brisbane and houses a library, chapel, monastery, hall and six buildings with classrooms and support rooms. Three of the teaching buildings are largely subject specific as they house the visual and performing arts, manual arts and science and computing specific classrooms and laboratories.

As part of an agreement with the adjacent Mater hospital, the school's land was leased for 25 years to build a six-story car park, which now houses the college's synthetic oval on top along with a new 1500 seat auditorium.

In 2016, construction finished on a new $3 million chapel adjacent to the old monastery.

In 2017, construction finished on a $14 million sporting and science centre, which houses a gym, 2 basketball courts (or 4 volleyball courts), a 250-seat viewing area, along with 12 science and engineering laboratories and staff rooms. Which is named after the previous principal Ian MacDonald who approved the construction of the building. This building is called the STEM building located behind the Monastery.

Since 1961, the school has also operated sporting fields in the southern Brisbane suburb of Runcorn, which contains 8 playing fields and a function centre.

The school also maintains an outdoor educational facility, Camp Laurence, at Lake Moogerah, to the west of Brisbane.

Sports
The college is a founding member of the AIC sporting association along with Marist College Ashgrove, St Edmunds College, Ipswich, St Patrick's College, Iona College, Padua College, St. Peters Lutheran College and Villanova College. The sports played in the AIC include rugby union, soccer, cricket, basketball, volleyball, tennis, swimming, chess, Water Polo, athletics and cross country.

Notable alumni
Alumni of St Laurence's College are known as "Old Boys" and may elect to join the school's alumni association, the St Laurence's College Old Boys Association. Notable alumni include:

Rhodes Scholars
 Peter Hempenstall, 1970
 James Maloney, 1929

Business
 Peter O'Meara, former CEO of the Western Force rugby union team
 John Symond, founder of Aussie Home Loans

Entertainment, arts and the media
 Murray Foy, actor and theatre director
 Gerard Lee, Australian novelist, screenwriter and director
 Kerry O'Brien, television news journalist and presenter
Conrad Sewell, Australian singer-songwriter
 Ross Symonds, former news presenter for Seven Network in Sydney

Politics, law and public service
 Darryl Briskey, former state Labor member for Cleveland
 Condon Byrne, former federal Labor Senator for Queensland
 Paul Finn, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
 Mike Horan, former state National member for Toowoomba South and Leader of the Opposition
 Denis Ives AO, former Public Service Commissioner 1990–1995
 Len Keogh, former federal Labor member for the Division of Bowman
 John Mickel, former state Labor member for Logan and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
 Jeffrey Spender, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and Queen's Counsel

Science and medicine
 Joseph King , sugar technologist and administrator
 Robert John Walsh , founder of the NSW Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service and former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales

Sports
 John Anderson , sailing gold medal winner at the 1972 Olympics
 Thomas Anderson, sailing gold medal winner at the 1972 Olympics
 Neil Betts, former Wallabies player
 Brendan Cannon, former Wallabies and Queensland Reds player
 Mark Connors, former [Wallabies and Queensland Reds player
 Nev Cottrell, former Wallabies captain and Queensland Reds player
 Cooper Cronk, Sydney Roosters and Queensland and Australia rugby league player
 Rowan Crothers, Paralympic swimmer
 Dan Crowley, former Wallabies and Queensland Reds player and dual Rugby Union World Cup winner
 Ken Fletcher, 12 tennis Grand Slam titles and Davis Cup player
 Greg Hartung, President of the Australian Paralympic Committee and Vice-President of the International Paralympic Committee
 Ryley Jacks, Gold Coast Titans rugby league player
 Damon Kelly, Olympic weightlifter and Commonwealth Games Gold Medal winner
 Laurie Lawrence, Australian Olympic swim coach
 Brendan O'Reilly, UFC mixed martial artist
 Luke McLean, Italy national rugby union team and Sale Sharks player
 Elliott Shriane, Olympic speed skater
 Joshua Slack, Olympic beach volleyball player
 Archie Smith, Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions
 Mark Stockwell, swimming silver medal winner at the 1984 Olympics, chairman of the Australian Sports Foundation
 William Zillman, Gold Coast Titans player

See also 

 Catholic education in Australia
 List of schools in Queensland

References

External links
 
 St Laurence's Old Boys Association

Category:Congregation of Christian Brothers secondary schools
Category:Educational institutions established in 1915
Category:Boys' schools in Queensland
Category:Catholic primary schools in Brisbane
Category:1915 establishments in Australia
Category:Catholic secondary schools in Brisbane
Category:Congregation of Christian Brothers schools in Australia