By Rikki-Lee Arnold, QRL.com.au
Central Queensland Capras skipper Jack Madden has never really spoken publicly about how much his parents have done for him during his career.
But there’s also no better time to do so then when you’re about to play your 100th Hostplus Cup game.
A one-club stalwart, Madden is a Central Queensland man through and through.
Having grown up on a cattle property outside the small town of Duaringa – approximately 100 kilometres southwest of Rockhampton – the now 29-year-old and his brothers, Sam and Ben, would travel hundreds and hundreds of kilometres every week to play the game they loved so much, with their parents – Michael and Tanya – behind the wheel getting them to every destination.
A Duaringa Bulldogs junior, Madden said him and his brothers had to travel as far as Theodore to play a weekly game. Eventually they joined the Central Highlands competition, doing three-hour round trips multiple times a week.
As he looks back now, he knows he owes everything to them.
