Please answer the following question: Ray Preston was an Australian rugby league footballer. He played club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Newtown Jets club. He played on the wing for the Newtown teams which won the 1954 and 1955 minor premierships but lost both seasons' grand finals to Souths. The 34 tries he scored in the 1954 season made him the competition's leading try-scorer and is also the Newtown club's record for most tries in a season. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete