Rugby League Achievements
2008–09
- All athletes who graduated from the AIS program in 2009 were recruited by either an NRL club
or a club feeder program. - The AIS team won all four of its international matches, defeating the French under-17s and under-19s and the English Academy under-17 group
AIS scholarship holder Jordan Rankin became the youngest player in 80 years to make his debut in the NRL, with the Gold Coast Titans.
2007–08
- Ninety per cent of athletes who graduated from the AIS program in 2007 were recruited by either an NRL club or an NRL club feeder program.
The AIS team won three out of four of its international matches in 2007, defeating the French under-17s and under-19s and the English Academy under-17s. - Former AIS scholarship holder Israel Folau won a premiership and became the youngest player in the history of the game to play a Test for Australia in his debut NRL season.
2006–07
- 26 out of 30 athletes who graduated from the AIS program in 2006 were recruited by either an NRL club or an NRL club feeder program.
- The AIS team won all four of its international matches in 2006, defeating the Great Britain under-18s 18–14, the English Academy under-17s 32–22, the French under-19s 52–10 and the French under-18s 36–8.
Of the 18 graduating scholarship holders from the first intake in 2002, 14 are currently playing in either NSW junior representative teams for National Rugby League clubs, or in the feeder clubs that represent the junior development pathway of the Queensland-based National Rugby League clubs.
