Clancy Alexander Rudeforth (born 1 February 1983) is a former

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who played for the

Claremont Football Club The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed Tigers, is an Australian rules football club based in Claremont, Western Australia, that currently plays in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). Its official colours are na ...

in the

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(WAFL), captaining the side from 2009 to 2011. He was previously rookie-listed at the

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in the

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(AFL), but did not play a senior game for them. Rudeforth currently works as a

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at a Perth-based commercial law firm.

Football career

Born in Kellerberrin, Rudeforth moved to Kununurra with his family at the age of three months. His father was a country doctor, and Rudeforth also lived in Carnarvon and Corrigin before he moved to

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

to attend

Hale School Hale School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Named after the school founded by Bishop Mathew Blagden Hale in 1858, Hale School claims to b ...

. Rudeforth played for the Western Australia Under-18 team in both the 2000 and 2001

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, captaining the side in 2001. He also captained the

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under-17 team that toured Ireland in 2000. Rudeforth made his senior debut for Claremont in round two of the 2001 season, against . He was recruited to the West Coast Eagles with the 35th pick overall in the 2002 Rookie Draft, and spent three seasons at the club before being de-listed at the end of the

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. Rudeforth's form for Claremont was consistent however; he played 23 games in 2004 and was selected in the WAFL representative side against the

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(VFL). He also finished second in the EB Cook Medal, Claremont's

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award, and played in the club's losing Grand Final team against . Rudeforth was again selected in the WAFL representative side in 2006, against the

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(SANFL). Rudeforth was named captain of Claremont in 2009. In September 2010, Rudeforth had his jaw broken after an incident with defender

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, who was suspended for three games for the incident. In

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, Rudeforth played his 150th game for Claremont, against

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in the

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. He played his 150th WAFL game the week after, against . He captained the club to the 2011 premiership, defeating Subiaco by 56 points in the 2011 Grand Final, announcing his retirement after the game.

Personal life

Rudeforth currently works as a

for

Herbert Smith Freehills Herbert Smith Freehills is an international law firm with headquarters in London, United Kingdom and Sydney, Australia. It was formed on 1 October 2012 by a merger between the United Kingdom-based Herbert Smith, then a member of the "Silver Circl ...

, an international commercial law firm, and is involved with

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law. During 2005, when he took a year off from playing football to travel overseas, Rudeforth kept fit by running in European mountain ranges, and also participated in the 2005

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, finishing the course in three hours, 15 minutes, and 32 seconds to place 1,425th out of 37,516 runners. In April 2012, Rudeforth biked from Perth to Albany, a distance of 410 km, in support of the Proudies Foundation.Rudeforth to ride for Proudlove
– West Coast Eagles. Published 29 March 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2012.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rudeforth, Clancy 1983 births Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Australian solicitors Claremont Football Club players Living people Australian male marathon runners People educated at Hale School People from Kellerberrin, Western Australia