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*the following was completed for a school assignment in 2018

Shannon Cogan
Shannon Jack Cogan, born May 31, 1998 (age 19), is mostly known for being a duel-sportsman (Basketball & Cricket) in Australia. Cogan is Australian and is the son of Gregory Cogan & Frith Cogan and lives in his hometown of Traralgon Victoria. Cogan has recently graduated from his VCE studies at Flinders Christian Community College in 2016 and is now studying a Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management) at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria.

Shannon Cogan has taken part in a variety of sporting codes from a young age and to this day sporting still remains a central part of his life. Cogan, firstly found an interest in Australian Rules Football and has since grown to find cricket and basketball as his preferred sports as well as some temporary sporting interests amongst the years. Shannon is dating girlfriend Emily Dash, who he has been with since February 2014. Shannon Cogan has an older brother Jayden Lea and an older sister Innika Buhagiar who are both now married with one child each, making Shannon an uncle two his two nieces.

Early life & Youth
Shannon Cogan was born on May 31, 1998 in Traralgon, Victoria to father Gregory Cogan and mother Frith Cogan. Shannon attended Grey Street Primary School in Traralgon and began to start playing sport competitively around the age of 8 years old when he began playing for City Juniors Junior Football Club of the T&DJFL. Cogan spent a large amount of his childhood with his father assisting him with land-scaping jobs and learning a range of hands-on skills through similar experiences, he had similar experiences with his brother Jayden who taught Shannon various skills typically mechanical or tool-related. Shannon's mother was a beauty therapist in Traralgon all throughout his childhood whilst his father was employed in landscaping and also became a policeman in 2003. Cogan's older siblings both attended St. Pauls Anglican College whilst Shannon was at primary school. As Shannon completed primary school he opted to follow close childhood friends and attend Lavalla Catholic College in 2011, as well as joining Imperials Cricket Club where it all began for Shannon's cricket career. Both Cogan's associations with Lavalla Catholic College and Imperials Cricket Club were ended due to several circumstances which will be covered in greater detail in the 'Schooling' and the 'Cricket Career' sections of this page.