Darren Bewick (born 21 August 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who won two premierships with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bewick's game breaking pace & goal sense inside the attacking 50 was legendary amongst Bomber fans. After debuting in

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

, Bewick played in all three of Essendon's finals in 1989. In

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

, Bewick played in Essendon's losing Grand Final team against Collingwood. In the Preliminary Final of 1993, Bewick was instrumental in Essendon's comeback victory (trailing the Adelaide Crows by 42 points at half-time) to earn a place in the 1993 AFL Grand Final. Bewick kicked a game high 6 goals (equal with that of Adelaide full forward Tony Modra), kicking his 5th & 6th goals in the final term to level the scores, with Gary O'Donnell kicking truly to put Essendon in front. Essendon went on to defeat Adelaide by 11 points, with the sealer kicked by returning Essendon great, Tim Watson. The win secured Essendon a place in the

1993 AFL Grand Final The 1993 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 1993. It was the 97th annual grand final of ...

against Carlton. Essendon dominated the premiership decider, winning by 44 points. In the round 11 match against Geelong in 1995, Bewick ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in an incident during the second quarter, ending his season. He played his comeback match (and 150th AFL game) against Geelong in the centenary re-enactment match at the MCG in round 7, 1996. In a best-on-ground display, Bewick kicked nine goals from 11 kicks - including a spectacular finish from the boundary for his eighth goal. Bewick retired after the

2000 AFL Grand Final The 2000 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and the Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 2 September 2000 rather than in its usual last Sa ...

, in which Essendon defeated

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by 60 points, claiming the club's record 16th AFL premiership. Since retiring from playing Bewick has worked in junior coaching and development. He is the long-standing coach of Eastern Ranges in the NAB League, the premier underage competition in Victoria. He first gained the position in 2010 and coached them to a premiership in 2013.

Playing statistics

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

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, style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 25 , , 37 , , 33 , , 338 , , 112 , , 450 , , 68 , , 30 , , 1.5 , , 1.3 , , 13.5 , , 4.5 , , 18.0 , , 2.7 , , 1.2 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 18 , , 25 , , 19 , , 279 , , 113 , , 392 , , 59 , , 7 , , 1.4 , , 1.1 , , 15.5 , , 6.3 , , 21.8 , , 3.3 , , 0.4 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1992 , style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 20 , , 32 , , 28 , , 271 , , 94 , , 365 , , 66 , , 21 , , 1.6 , , 1.4 , , 13.6 , , 4.7 , , 18.3 , , 3.3 , , 1.1 , - , style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;",

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 peacefu ...

† , style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 24 , , 52 , , 30 , , 315 , , 119 , , 434 , , 61 , , 38 , , 2.2 , , 1.3 , , 13.1 , , 5.0 , , 18.1 , , 2.5 , , 1.6 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 21 , , 20 , , 34 , , 302 , , 110 , , 412 , , 79 , , 24 , , 1.0 , , 1.6 , , 14.4 , , 5.2 , , 19.6 , , 3.8 , , 1.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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

, style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 10 , , 21 , , 13 , , 138 , , 53 , , 191 , , 22 , , 13 , , 2.1 , , 1.3 , , 13.8 , , 5.3 , , 19.1 , , 2.2 , , 1.3 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1996 , style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 18 , , 28 , , 21 , , 226 , , 89 , , 315 , , 61 , , 15 , , 1.6 , , 1.2 , , 12.6 , , 4.9 , , 17.5 , , 3.4 , , 0.8 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

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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 s ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 23 , , 32 , , 16 , , 256 , , 87 , , 343 , , 64 , , 17 , , 1.4 , , 0.7 , , 11.1 , , 3.8 , , 14.9 , , 2.8 , , 0.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 shoot ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 24 , , 20 , , 17 , , 301 , , 73 , , 374 , , 54 , , 27 , , 0.8 , , 0.7 , , 12.5 , , 3.0 , , 15.6 , , 2.3 , , 1.1 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" , style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;",

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 S ...

† , style="text-align:center;", , 8 , , 19 , , 14 , , 12 , , 195 , , 64 , , 259 , , 48 , , 26 , , 0.7 , , 0.6 , , 10.3 , , 3.4 , , 13.6 , , 2.5 , , 1.4 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 238 ! 332 ! 260 ! 3085 ! 1070 ! 4155 ! 696 ! 272 ! 1.4 ! 1.1 ! 13.0 ! 4.5 ! 17.5 ! 2.9 ! 1.1

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bewick, Darren 1967 births Living people Essendon Football Club players Essendon Football Club premiership players West Perth Football Club players Western Australian State of Origin players Australian rules footballers from Perth, Western Australia VFL/AFL premiership players