Overview
- A statement of claim lodged in the Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday alleges Brighton Grammar mishandled a head injury Pucovski suffered during a 2014 football training drill when he was 16.
- Pucovski says he was briefly unconscious, was walked back into training minutes later without proper medical assessment, then developed blurred vision and worsening headaches before being taken to hospital five or six days later.
- His lawyers point to Australian Sports Commission guidance that recommends 14 symptom-free days before adolescents return to contact training and argue the school departed from those standards.
- Pucovski retired from professional cricket in April 2025 after an independent medical panel advised he stop playing following at least 13 documented concussions and he continues to report severe, ongoing symptoms.
- The claim seeks damages and could prompt greater legal and public scrutiny of how elite schools and youth sports programs manage concussions as the court process begins and Brighton Grammar has declined to comment.