Brett Thorson and Jordy Sandy grew up within an hour of each other in Gippsland. Now they have had the 'absolutely wild' experience of playing in one of American football's biggest events.
Brett Thorson moved from a dairy farm in south Gippsland to the United States, where he helped the Georgia Bulldogs win a national football championship.abc.net.au/news/american-college-football-game-gippsland-players/101840920Los Angeles is a long way from eastern Victoria, but today two Australians from the same small patch of Gippsland took centre stage in the City of Angels.
Both were talented Australian Rules footballers who changed to punting in American football, receiving full scholarships to attend college in the US. Thorson, 21, is in his freshman year at Georgia, and he punted the ball just once during the game, gaining 48 yards. Program founder Nathan Chapman said more than 200 people from Prokick had secured college scholarships in the United States since it started in 2007, with four currently playing professionally in the NFL.
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