David Schwarz (born 24 July 1972) is a former

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er, who retired in 2002 after playing for the

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in the

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(AFL), for 12 seasons.

Football career

Recruited from Sunbury, Schwarz made his

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debut in 1991. As a player for the

, he was known as "the Ox" for his beast-like build. He played

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and in 1994 kicked nine goals straight against

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and with some breathtaking finals performances (including "that" blind turn against

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). Strong marking, agile and athletic, until he suffered numerous knee injuries, playing only two games in 1995 and missing the entire 1996 season. Schwarz resumed playing in 1997 at a weight of , which was above the weight he subsequently carried in 2000. He capped his effort by winning the club’s best and fairest in 1999 and passing the 100 game mark – something that was unthinkable a few years earlier when knee injuries left his career in tatters. In typical style he celebrated with 20 of his closest mates and his mother, who had brought him up single handed since the age of eight. His father had been murdered. Late in his playing career, he appeared as a panelist on the

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in a memorable show where Sam Newman threw a pie in his face. A visibly angry Schwarz pushed Newman down to the ground, with the latter lucky not to suffer serious injury. He retired in the middle of 2002 having played 173 matches and kicking 244 goals.

Playing statistics

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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 Phil ...

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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

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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 ...

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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 Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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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 ...

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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Media career

Following his football career, Schwarz joined new sport radio station

SEN 1116 1116 SEN (call sign 3AK) is an Australian radio station in Victoria. Owned and operated by Pacific Star Network, it broadcasts a sports radio format from Lower Plenty to Greater Melbourne. First broadcast on 29 November 1931 as 3AK, the stat ...

in 2005 in Melbourne, in his time on SEN, he admitted that during his football career he had a gambling problem and whittled away most of his income. He hosted "The Run Home" on SEN from 3–7 pm weekdays with Mark Allen until 8 December 2017. axed. From 2007 to 2010 Schwarz was a part of the Channel Seven's AFL commentary team In 2018, Schwarz joined Macquarie sports radio alongside Mark Allen to host the drive slot after their dismissals from SEN. On 1 November 2019 the pair concluded their term at MSR as the station's entire line-up was axed. Since 2020 Schwarz and Allen present called The Twilight Zone on

3AW 3AW is a talkback radio station based in Melbourne. It broadcasts on 693 kHz AM. It began transmission on 22 February 1932 as Melbourne's fifth commercial radio station. The station is owned and operated by Nine Entertainment Co. Hist ...

from 5-7pm on Saturdays and Sundays mainly during the AFL off-season. He also a commentator with 3AW and its Perth sister station

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References

External links

David Schwarz's profile
on the official AFL website of the Melbourne Football Club *
Demon Wiki profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwarz, David Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Melbourne Football Club players Victorian State of Origin players Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners 1972 births Australian people of German descent Living people People educated at Melbourne High School People educated at St. Bernard's College, Melbourne Radio personalities from Melbourne