CQUniversity graduate and sports reporter Paul Cochrane is becoming a familiar face on our TV screens this month as he reports from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

It's not the first trip to the sub-continent for the former Gladstone local, who has had a strong association with the University, both during and since his time as a student.

Alumnus Paul Cochrane - now reporting from the Commonwealth Games

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Bachelor of Arts, 1996

Bachelor of Arts, Honours, 1997

Graduate Diploma of Human Resource Management, 1998

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He was the envy of cricketers around the world in 2004, when he lined up alongside Allan Border (one of the game's greatest ever run-scorers) on a combined Queensland Universities squad tour of India and Sri Lanka. (The squad comprised students or alumni from each university in Queensland and Paul combined his playing duties with a role as press officer.)

More recently in 2009, Paul was a key organiser and MC for the Capricornia College 40th anniversary reunion, helping hundreds of former College residents to reunite and reminisce.

As a student, Paul was editor of the University newspaper and served two years as President of Capricornia College. He spent four years studying in Rockhampton before moving to Bundaberg in 1998, where he worked in the local media for five years with the Bundaberg News-Mail and with Seven Local News.

He played for the Brothers club in Bundaberg prior to linking up with a UK club as its 'overseas player' in March 2003. There, he went close to breaking the all-time county record for most runs (being selected to play in a southern hemisphere XI against the MCC) and juggled his cricket with work as a journalist with the Norfolk Constabulary in England.

Paul now works as a TV sports reporter for Channel 10 and we wish him well in India for the rest of the Commonwealth Games experience.