Ken Van Heekeren

Ken Van Heekeren (died August 2022) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played as a five-eighth and centre in the 1950s.

[1] He made 60 appearances for the Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) competition between 1953 and 1958.

[2] As an Eastern Suburbs junior, Van Heekeren played for Woollahra Waratahs.

On 4 April 1953, he made his first-grade NSWRFL debut, scoring a try in a 23–10 defeat to Parramatta at Cumberland Oval.

That year, he made 16 appearances, scoring one try in the last game of the regular season, a 38–7 win over Parramatta at Sydney Sports Ground.