Owen is a foundation member of the ACT Brumbies team and has played over 50 Tests for the Wallabies.
Owen's solid reputation has been built around his on field success. Not many players can boast to have won a Rugby World Cup, a Lions Series, two Super 12 trophies, numerous Bledisloe victories and voted Wallaby Player of the Year.
Owen was also named in the "Wallaby Team of the Decade". Owen is a popular corporate speaker and has successfully transitioned into life after rugby to be the CEO of the Kids’ Cancer Project.
It all started on an ordinary day in the late 1980s when Col Reynolds was driving his empty tourist coach past the Children’s Hospital in Camperdown, Sydney.
After stopping to let two youngsters with bald heads cross the road, he parked and went into the hospital on the spur of the moment.
Touched by the spirit of everyone he met that day, Col started his personal mission to help kids with cancer in any way he could. Early on, he learned the only way to improve outcomes for these children is through advances in medical research.