Hills District Bulls

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The Hills District Bulls is a Parramatta District junior rugby league football club which play in Baulkham Hills at Crestwood Oval. They have played in the Parramatta District since 1964.^[1] They field teams in all age groups including C-Grade, A-Grade, Sydney Shield and Ron Massey Cup competitions.

Over a few beers at the Bull & Bush Hotel at Baulkham Hills the club's name and legend was born in 1963. The club's inaugural season was 1964. They commenced with an A Grade and C Grade team and trained on Yattenden Oval. They moved from Yattenden Oval to The Castle Hill Showground in about 1966. From there they moved to Jasper Road to train and play their home games. The C Grade side won the Premiership in 1965 their second year in the competition and the first Premiership for the Club. They have used Crestwood Oval, Baulkham Hills, as their home ground since it was created in the 1970s.^[1]

Notable First Grade Players that have played at Hills District Bulls include:

• John Kolc (1972-81 Parramatta Eels)
• Wade L'Estrange (2000 Parramatta Eels)
• Daniel Irvine (2000-07 Parramatta Eels, Canterbury & South Sydney Rabbitohs)
• Nathan McMillan (2003 Parramatta Eels)
• Heath L'Estrange (2004-13 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Sydney & Bradford)
• John Williams (2005-10 Parramatta Eels, Sydney, Cronulla & North Queensland)
• Blake Green (2007- Parramatta Eels, Cronulla, Canterbury, Hull KR & Wigan)
• David Williams (2008-15 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles)
• Jason Baitieri (2010- Sydney Roosters & Catalans Dragons)
• Jamie Buhrer (2010- Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles)
• Luke Keary (2013- South Sydney Rabbitohs)
• Ava Seumanufagai (2013- West Tigers)
• Pauli Pauli (2014- Parramatta Eels)

Coach: Jarayd Anderson (Gur).

The club patrons are John Kolc and Ron Hilditch, both of whom have had distinguished^{[peacock prose]} rugby league careers, playing first grade for Parramatta Eels and later representing NSW and Australia.^[1]

The following persons have been awarded the honour of life membership of the club in recognition of many years of volunteer service to the club:^{[citation needed]} Barry Clapham, John Billings, Bob Collings, Phil O'Brien, Mick Shanahan, Allan Cook, Barry L'Estrange, Michael Gremmo, Bob Rose, Jenny Byrne, Brian Witt, Dennis Foulstone, Barry Rudd, Allan Weeks, John Noble, John Young, Brian Horder, Kevin Shanahan, Keith Churchland, Barbra Abbott, Steven Sullivan, Marj Radford (d), Warren Heath (d), Stan Concroft (d), Keith Hoyle (d), Keith Woellner (d).