He also represented the Canberra Vikings in the inaugural National Rugby Championship. Makin has come all the way through the ranks in the ACT, representing the region at Under 16, Schools, Under 20, State (ACT XV) and 10s level International.
He was a member of the newly founded Canberra Vikings squad for the first ever National Rugby Championship season in 2014 and his performances anchoring the scrum for the Vikings earned him a Super Rugby contract with the Brumbies for 2015. Makin was a member of the Australia Under-20 side which competed in the 2012 Institutional Review Board Junior World Championship in South Africa.
