Bryson Goodwin

Bryson Goodwin is a retired player most recently playing for Cronulla Sharks.

Bryson Goodwin (born 30 December 1985) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League. A New Zealand international representative goal-kicking winger or centre, he previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. He was a part of the Rabbitohs squad that won the 2014 NRL Premiership, being named on an extended bench for the final.

Bryson Goodwin is the son of former Australia representative, Ted Goodwin who is of New Zealander descent. Bryson's New Zealander paternal grandparents, Lester Jarvis Goodwin, was a P?keh? (European New Zealander) and Rosina Marie (née Tewera), was a M?ori. Bryson's mother is Australian. His younger brother of former players Bronx and Luke Goodwin. Goodwin's sister Rearne is married to fellow Rabbitohs team-mate Joel Reddy, making him his brother-in-law. As a youth, Goodwin and his family moved to Perth while his brother Luke was playing for the Perth-based Western Reds, whom Bryson was a ball boy for. He played his junior football for the Canning Bulldogs and South Perth Lions in Western Australian Rugby League before moving back to Sydney and playing for the Gymea Gorillas. Goodwin attended Endeavour Sports High, playing in an Arrive Alive Cup final alongside Rabbitohs team-mate Beau Champion. He was also a member of the successful 2003 Endeavour Sports High debating team.

Goodwin was a Cronulla junior, playing for the Gymea Gorillas in the local Cronulla-Sutherland District competition. He progressed through the Sharks lower grade teams, the under-20s and reserve grade, before making his first grade debut for the Sharks in round 24 of the 2007 season, miraculously just eight weeks after breaking his leg in reserve grade. He played nine games for Cronulla-Sutherland from 2007-2008, scoring two tries. In one of those tries, against the St. George Illawarra Dragons, he chased a Greg Bird grubber kick and kept the ball, within millimetres of the dead ball line, in the field of play and grounded it for a try, which leveled the score and sent the game into golden point.