Peter Jorgensen is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n-born rugby union

Rugby union

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 and rugby league

Rugby league

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 footballer.

Jorgensen was educated at Newington College

Newington College

Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 (1980–86) and St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill

St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill

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. A rugby union player with the Randwick club Jorgensen switched rugby codes to join the Sydney Roosters

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 in 1995 where he played on the Wing

Rugby league positions

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 position.

Making his debut in round 13 of the season, Jorgensen scored eight tries in the remaining ten games of the season. He played with the Roosters for a further season, representing City Origin in 1996, before signing with the Penrith Panthers

Penrith Panthers

The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, the top rugby league football competition in Australasia. For the 2012 NRL season they will be coached by Ivan...

.

Jorgensen scored 32 tries playing for the Panthers. It was during this time that he attracted notice for doing the "aeroplane", a post-try celebration where he would pretend to be a plane, with his arms representing wings.

In 2002 he returned to rugby union joining English

England

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 club Northhampton. From Northampton he went on to play two seasons for Rotherham before signing for Edinburgh where he played two more seasons before finishing his career. In June 2007, Jorgensen returned to Australia with his wife and two young sons and resumed work as a stockbroker.

Frank Puletua

Frank Puletua

Frank Puletua was a New Zealand professional rugby league player for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League competition. Puletua previously played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs...

is Jorgensen's brother-in-law.