Mark Sargent
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Sarge | |||||
| Born | 18 August 1964 | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||
| Weight | 108 kg (17 st 0 lb) | |||||
| Position | Prop | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1986–88 | Canterbury-Bankstown | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989–95 | Newcastle Knights | 126 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 72 |
| Total | 145 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 72 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1989–94 | Country Origin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | New South Wales | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990–92 | Australia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Source: NRL Stats & RLP | ||||||
Mark Sargent (born 18 August 1964 in New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative forward, he played in the NSWRL premiership for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Newcastle Knights, winning the Rothmans Medal in 1989 while playing for Newcastle.
A Newcastle junior, Mark Sargent signed with Canterbury-Bankstown and made his first grade debut for the Bulldogs on 13 April 1986 against the North Sydney Bears at the Belmore Sports Ground. Sargent would play 19 games for the Bulldogs until the end of the 1988 NSWRL season and was unlucky to miss a place in their premiership winning team that year.
In 1989, Sargent signed for the Newcastle Knights who had been admitted to the competition in 1988. That year he co-won the Rothman's Medal for 'best and fairest' player of the year along with Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks second rower Gavin Miller.
Sargent was selected to represent New South Wales, playing from the bench in Game III of the 1990 State of Origin series. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour, becoming the Knights' first international representative. Sargent played in 11 games on the Kangaroo Tour, scoring 3 tries. He made his test debut for Australia as a substitute in the third and deciding Ashes test against Great Britain at Elland Road in Leeds won by the Kangaroos 14-0, and went on to play from the bench in the two tests series win over France at the end of the tour. He had actually been selected as a substitute for the second Ashes test against Great Britain at Old Trafford in Manchester in what was to be his test debut, however coach Bob Fulton did not use any of the teams subs (Sargent, Des Hasler, Greg Alexander and David Gillespie) during the game won 14-10 by Australia thanks to a last minute try to captain Mal Meninga. The win by the Kangaroos in Manchester kept the Ashes series alive after the Lions had produced a shock 19-12 win in the first test at London's Wembley Stadium. His selection for the second test saw Sargent become the Knights first ever test representative.
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