 Upon graduation from St. Anthony's Catholic Primary School he moved to Iona College and tried his hand at basketball, rugby union, water polo, athletics and volleyball.He made his main focus volleyball while in high school and represented the Queensland state team and the schoolboys team throughout his schooling life.During his last term of high school in 2008 he joined friends at Iona to compete in four football games at the Associated Independent Colleges school competition and in doing so played Australian rules football for the first time at 17 years of age.