Andrew Ian McKay (born 14 July 1970) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played for

Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...

in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...

(AFL) and Glenelg Football Club in the

South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as the ...

(SANFL).

Playing career

McKay grew up in south eastern South Australia, and played junior football for Lucindale in the Kowree-Naracoorte Football League. Recruited by

(SANFL) club Glenelg, McKay moved to Adelaide in 1991 and played 40 games for Glenelg as a half-back flanker, finishing second in the

Magarey Medal The Magarey Medal is an Australian rules football honour awarded annually since 1898 to the fairest and most brilliant player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as judged by field umpires. The award was created by Willia ...

in 1992 behind

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Carlton

McKay was recruited by

with its first round selection in the

1992 AFL Draft The 1992 AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League. It consisted of the main national draft, the pre-season draft and ...

(No. 13 overall), although he was later fined $10,000 when it emerged that he had contacted four of the AFL's struggling clubs (, , and ) and warned them that he would stay in South Australia if one of those clubs drafted him – which contravened the AFL's draft tampering rules. He nevertheless remained eligible to play for Carlton, and he made his debut in Round 1,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

, immediately displaying the outstanding defensive skills that he had displayed at Glenelg. In his first AFL season, McKay was named on the half-back flank in the

All-Australian team The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-perf ...

. He also represented

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

at State of Origin that season, a feat he repeated in

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and

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

.SA Football Hall of Fame, , Retrieved 15 April 2011. In 1995, McKay was a member of Carlton's premiership team, the only premiership in his senior career. McKay played 15 of Carlton's 24 matches in the

1996 AFL season The 1996 AFL season was the 100th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixt ...

. Continuing with Carlton, McKay played two more matches for South Australia, and was the winner of the

Fos Williams Medal The Fos Williams Medal has been awarded since 1981 to the best Australian rules football player from South Australia during Inter-State or Inter-Competition matches. The medal is named in honour of legendary South Australian National Football Le ...

before the end of top-level State of Origin football in 1999. He made the All-Australian team as half-back flanker three times consecutively in

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

and

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

, bringing his career tally to four. In

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

, McKay's final season, he assumed the Carlton captaincy following the mid-season retirement of

Brett Ratten Brett Ratten (born 11 July 1971) is an Australian rules football coach and former player in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played 255 games for the Carlton Football Club between 1990 and 2003, including the club's 1995 premiership. He ...

, and also won Carlton's Best and Fairest award for the only time in his career and McKay announced his retirement from his playing career at the end of the 2003 season. McKay played a total of 244 games and kicked a total of 28 goals for

from 1993 until 2003. McKay is a life member and Hall of Fame Inductee of the Carlton Football Club. In 2007, he was inducted into the

South Australian Football Hall of Fame The South Australian Football Hall of Fame enshrines those who have made a most significant contribution to the game of Australian Football. The Hall of Fame was established in 2002 when 114 outstanding individuals became inaugural inductees. S ...

Sports administration career

After retiring from his playing career, McKay joined the newly formed Match Review Panel, set up in

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as an overhaul of the

AFL Tribunal The AFL Tribunal is the disciplinary tribunal of the Australian Football League (AFL), an Australian rules football competition. The Tribunal regulates the conduct of players, umpires, and other officials associated with the AFL and its clubs. ...

system; from

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

until

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, he served as Chairman of that panel. He has also been involved in the Laws of the Game Committee. In October 2011, McKay was appointed to the position as Head of Football at the Carlton Football Club, when he replaced the outgoing

Steven Icke Steven Icke (born 7 March 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Originally from Federal Football League club Noble Park, Icke was a versatile player, ...

. In August 2018, McKay stepped down from his position as Head of Football at the Carlton Football Club. He was replaced by

Brad Lloyd Brad Lloyd (born 16 September 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Playing career Early playing career Lloyd, a midfielder from Victorian Football Leag ...

Personal life

While still playing in 1996, McKay began a degree in

veterinary science Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

, studying at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

. To balance his study with his football career, McKay trained with the

University of Queensland Australian Football Club The University of Queensland Australian Football Club (UQAFC) is an amateur Australian rules football club playing in thQFADivision 1, Division 4 anQAFLWLeague competitions, overseen by AFL Queensland. UQAFC home games are played at the Univer ...

whilst commuting to Melbourne on most weekends to play matches with Carlton. Since retiring from his playing career, McKay has practised as a

veterinarian A veterinarian (vet), also known as a veterinary surgeon or veterinary physician, is a medical professional who practices veterinary medicine. They manage a wide range of health conditions and injuries in non-human animals. Along with this, vet ...

. He has three children, all of whom have played football in some capacity. In October 2018, Andrew's daughter Abbie was selected with Pick 16 in the

2018 AFL Women's Draft The 2018 AFL Women's (AFLW) draft consisted of the various periods when the ten clubs in the AFL Women's, Australian rules football women's competition could recruit players prior to the competition's 2019 AFL Women's season, 2019 season. As i ...

and in doing so made history being the first ever Father-Daughter selection in the Australian Rules Football history.

Statistics

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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, style="text-align:center;", , 5 , , 26 , , 2 , , 2 , , 269 , , 157 , , 426 , , 95 , , 46 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 10.3 , , 6.0 , , 16.4 , , 3.7 , , 1.8 , , 9 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, style="text-align:center;", , 5 , , 25 , , 3 , , 7 , , 271 , , 206 , , 477 , , 121 , , 51 , , 0.1 , , 0.3 , , 10.8 , , 8.2 , , 19.1 , , 4.8 , , 2.0 , , 8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, style="text-align:center;", , 5 , , 24 , , 2 , , 3 , , 247 , , 176 , , 423 , , 124 , , 33 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 10.3 , , 7.3 , , 17.6 , , 5.2 , , 1.4 , , 9 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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, style="text-align:center;", , 5 , , 22 , , 0 , , 3 , , 189 , , 125 , , 314 , , 66 , , 40 , , 0.0 , , 0.1 , , 8.6 , , 5.7 , , 14.3 , , 3.0 , , 1.8 , , 4 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 244 ! 28 ! 40 ! 2267 ! 1675 ! 3942 ! 889 ! 423 ! 0.1 ! 0.2 ! 9.3 ! 6.9 ! 16.2 ! 3.6 ! 1.7 ! 45

References

External links

Andrew McKay at the Carlton Football Club website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:McKay, Andrew All-Australians (AFL) Australian veterinarians Male veterinarians 1970 births Living people Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players South Australian State of Origin players Glenelg Football Club players John Nicholls Medal winners Australian rules footballers from South Australia South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees People from Lucindale, South Australia Australia international rules football team players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players