The Geelong Falcons is a youth
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 ...
representative club in the
NAB League
The NAB League Boys (also referred to as simply the NAB League and formerly known as the TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition held in Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victo ...
, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition,
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Au ...
.
The club takes in talented junior players from the Geelong, Colac and Warrnambool regions in order to prepare them for AFL selection. There is an under-15 V-Line cup side and an under-16 side, but the club's main focus is its under-18 side, who play a longer season.
In 2007,
Jimmy Bartel
James Ross Bartel (born 4 December 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A utility, tall and weighing , Bartel contributed as a midfielder, forward, an ...
became the first ex-Falcon to win the AFL
Brownlow Medal
The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the " best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by ...
, for the league's best and fairest player, while
Jonathan Brown became the first ex-Falcon to win the
Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is an Australian rules football award given annually to the Australian Football League (AFL) player who kicks the most goals in the home-and-away season. It is named after Essendon full-forward John Coleman, one of the most ...
for the most goals in the season.
Gary Ablett Jnr also became the first ex-Falcon to win the
Leigh Matthews Trophy
The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of Leigh Matthews, who won the first MVP award in 1982, when the league was st ...
, for being voted the Most Valuable Player by the AFL Players Association.
Hawthorn half-back
Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge (born 15 June 1984) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Hawthorn Football Club from 2002 to 2017, c ...
became the first Falcon to win the
Norm Smith Medal
The Norm Smith Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the Grand Final of the Australian Football League (AFL). Prior to 1990 the competition was known as the Victorian Football ...
for his best on ground performance in the 2008 Grand Final against the
Geelong Cats
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition, and are the 2022 ...
.
Nick Maxwell
Nicholas Maxwell (born 3 June 1983) is a former Australian rules football player and former captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Nick Maxwell was born in Geelong to parents Sue and Do ...
became the first Geelong Falcons player to captain a premiership team when he led
Collingwood to the 2010 AFL Premiership.
Honours
*Premierships (3): 1992, 2000, 2017
*Runners-up (2): 1994, 1998
*Wooden Spoon (1): 2019
Notable Falcons players
*
Jonathan Brown -
Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).
The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Melbourne-based 1883 foundation VFL c ...
: Coleman Medallist 2007; All-Australian 2007, 2009; Premiership Player 2001, 2002, 2003; Brisbane co-captain 2007-2008; Brisbane sole captain 2009–2014
*
Gary Ablett, Jr. - /: All-Australian 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014; All-Australian captain 2011; AFLPA MVP 2007, 2008, 2009; Premiership Player 2007, 2009; Brownlow Medallist 2009, 2013; Gold Coast captain 2011–2016
*
Jimmy Bartel
James Ross Bartel (born 4 December 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A utility, tall and weighing , Bartel contributed as a midfielder, forward, an ...
- : Brownlow Medallist 2007; All-Australian 2007, 2008; North Smith Medalist 2011; Premiership Player 2007, 2009, 2011
*
Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge (born 15 June 1984) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Hawthorn Football Club from 2002 to 2017, c ...
- : Number One Draft Pick 2001; All-Australian 2005, 2008, 2010, All-Australian Captain 2010; Norm Smith Medallist 2008, 2014; Premiership Player 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015 Hawthorn captain 2011–2016
*
Chris Heffernan
Chris Joel Heffernan (born 29 January 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career
Known affectionately as "Heff", Chris began his career in 1997 with the Essendon Football Clu ...
- /: Premiership Player 2000
*
Matthew Primus
Matthew Richard Primus (born 12 January 1975) is a former coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club and Australian rules footballer, captain and All-Australian ruckman. He was also previously an assistant coach at the Gold Coast Football Club.
...
- /: All-Australian 2001, 2002; Port Adelaide Captain 2001-05, Port Adelaide Coach 2010–2012
*
Cameron Ling
Cameron Ling (born 27 February 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A tagger at and , Ling is a premiership-winning captain at the club.
He is now a c ...
- : All-Australian 2007; Premiership Player 2007, 2009, 2011, Premiership Captain 2011; Geelong Captain 2010-2011
*
Matthew Scarlett
Matthew Scarlett (born 5 June 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer, who formerly played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A fullback, who is tall and weighing , Scarlett is the eldest son of forme ...
- : All-Australian 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011; Premiership Player 2007, 2009, 2011
*
Scott Lucas - : Premiership Player 2000
*
Jordan Lewis
Jordan Michael Lewis (born 24 April 1986) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.
AFL career Hawthorn
Lewis was drafted by Hawthorn ...
- /
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
: Premiership Player 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
*
Nick Maxwell
Nicholas Maxwell (born 3 June 1983) is a former Australian rules football player and former captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Nick Maxwell was born in Geelong to parents Sue and Do ...
- : Collingwood Captain 2008, Premiership Player/Captain 2010
*
Amon Buchanan
Amon Buchanan (born 10 October 1982) is a former Australian rules football who played for the Brisbane Lions and the Sydney Swans in the AFL. He is currently serving as the forwards coach of the Greater Western Sydney Giants.
AFL career
...
- /: Premiership Player 2005
*
Matthew Capuano
Mathew Capuano (born 2 September 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who spent his AFL career with the North Melbourne Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. Post playing career Capuano was a development coach at the Carlton ...
- /: Premiership Player 1996 and 1999
*
Mark Blake - : Premiership Player 2009
*
Allen Christensen - : Premiership Player 2011
*
Will Schofield
Will Schofield (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who formerly played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). At tall and weighing , he is a versatile defender who has played key-position and ...
-
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ...
: Premiership Player 2018
Patrick Dangerfield
Brownlow medal 2016, all Australian 6x and premiership player 2022
Draftees
Many notable players 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 ...
have been recruited from the Geelong Falcons. These players include:
*
1993
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:
Glenn Gorman
*
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 ...
:
Scott Lucas,
Tony Brown,
Chris Hemley, Jeremy Dyer, Shaun Baxter, Peter Bird, Nathan Saunders, Scott Taylor
*
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 ...
:
Simon Fletcher,
Joe McLaren
Joe McLaren (born 11 December 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda Football Club, St Kilda and the North Melbourne Football Club, Kangaroos in the Australian Football League (AFL).
McLaren, a wingman, was recru ...
, Nigel Credlin, Ryan Grinter
*
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 ...
:
Chris Heffernan
Chris Joel Heffernan (born 29 January 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career
Known affectionately as "Heff", Chris began his career in 1997 with the Essendon Football Clu ...
,
Bowen Lockwood,
Brent Grgic, Jacob Rhodes
*
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 ...
:
James Rahilly
James Rahilly (born 15 June 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as an assistant coach with the Geelong Football Club.
Early life and junior foot ...
,
Matthew Scarlett
Matthew Scarlett (born 5 June 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer, who formerly played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A fullback, who is tall and weighing , Scarlett is the eldest son of forme ...
, Lincoln Reynolds
*
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 ...
:
David A. Clarke,
Steven Baker, Jay Solomon,
David Loats
David Loats (born 13 February 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer. Loats played five seasons for Hawthorn in 1999–2003, before playing one season for Geelong in 2004, in the AFL
AFL may refer to:
Sports
* American Football L ...
,
Marc Dragicevic
Marc Dragicevic (born 30 March 1981) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Originally from North Geelong, Dragicevic played for Geelong Falcons before being drafted ...
, Tim van der Klooster
*
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 ...
:
David Haynes
David Haynes (born 10 June 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded ...
,
Jonathan Brown,
Tim Clarke,
Cameron Ling
Cameron Ling (born 27 February 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A tagger at and , Ling is a premiership-winning captain at the club.
He is now a c ...
,
Bill Nicholls
*
2000
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:
Sam Hunt
Sam Lowry Hunt (born December 8, 1984) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Cedartown, Georgia, Hunt played football in his high school and college years and once attempted to pursue a professional sports career before signing with MCA ...
, Sam Chapman,
Andrew Siegert
Andrew Martin Siegert (born 18 January 1982) is an Australian rules footballer. He made his debut in 2002 for Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle in the Australian Football League and was known for his hard approach as a Australian rules football ...
*
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 ...
:
Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge (born 15 June 1984) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Hawthorn Football Club from 2002 to 2017, c ...
,
Jimmy Bartel
James Ross Bartel (born 4 December 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A utility, tall and weighing , Bartel contributed as a midfielder, forward, an ...
, Luke Milan,
Matt Maguire
Matthew John Maguire (born 30 May 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the St Kilda Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career
St Kilda Football Club
Maguire ...
,
Tom Davidson,
Joel Reynolds
Joel Reynolds (born 5 June 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer. Reynolds is the grandson of Bomber legend Dick Reynolds
Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who pla ...
,
Gary Ablett Jr.
Gary Ablett Jr. (born 14 May 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL). The eldest son of Australian Football Hall of Fam ...
*
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 ...
:
Tim Callan
Timothy Callan (born 6 January 1984) is a former Australian rules football player for the Western Bulldogs, and the Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club base ...
, Lochlan Veale,
Brent Moloney
Brent Moloney (born 28 January 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions, Melbourne Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Originating from Warrnambool, ...
*
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 ...
:
Mark Blake,
Nathan Foley, Luke Buckland, James Allan
*
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
:
Jordan Lewis
Jordan Michael Lewis (born 24 April 1986) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.
AFL career Hawthorn
Lewis was drafted by Hawthorn ...
,
John Meesen, Tim Sheringham
*
2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
:
Shaun Higgins
Shaun Higgins (born 4 March 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). Higgins played for the Western Bulldogs from 2006 to 2014, the North Melbourne Football Club from 2015 to ...
,
Danny Stanley
Daniel "Danny" Stanley (born 18 February 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Stanley played his junior ...
,
Clint Bartram
Clinton "Clint" Bartram (born 18 February 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited from the Geelong Falcons, after growing up ...
*
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
:
Travis Boak
Travis Boak (born 1 August 1988) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Boak List of Port Adelaide Football Club captains, captained the club from 2013 ...
, Daniel O'Keefe,
Will Schofield
Will Schofield (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who formerly played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). At tall and weighing , he is a versatile defender who has played key-position and ...
,
Simon Hogan
Simon Hogan (born 16 August 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career
Early career
Hogan was recruited from the Geelong Falcons by Geelong at pick 57 in th ...
,
Ryan Williams, Peter Hardy
*
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 ...
:
Lachlan Henderson,
Patrick Dangerfield
Patrick Dangerfield (born 5 April 1990) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club.
Drafted by Adelaide in 2007, Dangerfi ...
,
Jack Steven,
Adam Donohue
Since becoming a foundation club of the Victorian Football League (VFL)—which is now known as the Australian Football League (AFL)—in 1897, there have been 1104 players who have represented the Geelong Football Club in a senior VFL/AFL match ...
,
Jaxson Barham
Jaxson Barham (born 20 May 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played seven senior games for the Collingwood Football Club from 2009–2010 before being delisted at the end of the 2010 season.
Background
Drafted under the Austr ...
, Guy O'Keefe,
Ed Curnow
Edward Curnow (born 7 November 1989Carlton Football ClubEdward Curnow Player Profile bio, Retrieved 23 March 2011.) is a professional Australian rules footballer, currently playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football Leag ...
, Chris Kangars
*
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
:
Ayce Cordy,
Luke Rounds,
Ben Bucovaz,
Jordie McKenzie
Jordie McKenzie (born 21 June 1990) is an Australian Cricketer witBrighton District Cricket Cluband former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). In November 2015, he sig ...
,
Luke Delaney
Luke Delaney (born 24 June 1989) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
He was drafted with rookie draft pick n ...
,
Tom Simpkin
Tom Simpkin (born 7 August 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Playing career
Simpkin was recruited with the 29th pick in the 2009 r ...
*
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 ...
:
Ben Cunnington,
Gary Rohan
Gary Rohan (born 7 June 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having been initially drafted to the Sydney Swans.
Junior career
Rohan participated in the Auskic ...
,
Jasper Pittard, Callum Bartlett,
Allen Christensen,
Luke Thompson, Joe Dare
*
2010
File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...
:
Billie Smedts,
Jayden Pitt,
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is fr ...
,
Troy Davis
Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) was a man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King re ...
,
Cameron Delaney,
Luke Dahlhaus
Luke Dahlhaus (born 21 August 1992) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He received a nomination for the 2011 AFL Rising Star award in r ...
,
Josh Walker,
Cameron Johnston
*
2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
:
Taylor Adams
Taylor Adams (born 20 September 1993) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Greater Western Sydney Giants from 2012 to 2 ...
,
Devon Smith
Devon Sheldon Smith (born 21 October 1981 in Hermitage, Grenada) is a cricketer who features as a opening or top order left-handed batsman. Smith has played for the West Indies and the Windward Islands in regional tournaments. Smith also hold ...
,
Jackson Merrett
Jackson Merrett (born 27 February 1993) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Essendon Football Club with the 31st over ...
, Jay Lever,
Jed Bews
Jed Bews (born 14 December 1993) is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted with the 86th pick in the 2011 AFL Draft under the father-son rule. His father Andrew Bews ...
, Jai Sheehan, Andrew Boseley
*
2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
:
Mason Wood
Mason Wood (born 13 September 1993) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for the North Melbourne Football Club.
Career
North Melbou ...
,
Josh Saunders
Josh Saunders (born March 2, 1981) is an American former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He last played for Orlando City in Major League Soccer.
Career
College
Saunders, the younger brother of Shawn Saunders, spent the f ...
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
:
Darcy Lang
Darcy Lang (born 21 November 1995) is an Australian rules footballer. He played for seven years in the Australian Football League, with Geelong and Carlton.
Darcy grew up in Colac, Victoria and played for Victoria Country in the 2013 AFL Unde ...
,
Darcy Gardiner,
Lewis Taylor
Andrew Lewis Taylor (born 20 January 1966) is a British multi-instrumentalist musician, born and raised in Barnet, North London, England, in the late 1960s. He started in the music business as a guitarist touring with the psychedelic rock band E ...
,
Samuel Russell
Samuel Russell (August 25, 1789 – May 5, 1862), was an American entrepreneur and trader, and founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American trading house in China from 1842 to its closing in 1891.
Early life
Russel ...
, Nick Bourke
*
2014
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:
Paddy McCartin
Patrick McCartin (born 19 April 1996) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for the St Kilda Football Club from 2015 to 2019. He was drafted ...
,
Hugh Goddard,
Teia Miles
Teia Miles (born 2 November 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a highly rated young midfielder, with the ability to play forward or back ...
,
Jackson Nelson,
Zaine Cordy
Zaine Cordy (born 27 October 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having initially been recruited as a father–son pick by the Western Bulldo ...
,
Lewis Melican
Lewis Melican (born 4 November 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Sydney with their third selection and fifty-second overall in the 2015 ro ...
*
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
:
Darcy Parish
Darcy Parish (born 25 July 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Parish was born in Winchelsea, Victoria. He participated in the Auskick progr ...
,
Charlie Curnow
Charles Curnow (born 3 February 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Curnow received a nomination for the 2017 AFL Rising Star award in round 16 of the ...
,
Tom Doedee
Tom Doedee (born 1 March 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Doedee excelled as a junior basketballer from the age of six playing a ...
,
Rhys Mathieson
Rhys Mathieson (born 10 January 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). At 1.87 metres (6 ft 2 in) tall and weighing 84 kilograms (185 lb), he play ...
*
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
:
Alex Witherden
Alex Witherden (born 10 September 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Witherden was a successful junior athlete in basketball and cricket but ...
,
Sean Darcy
Sean Darcy (born 12 June 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). At tall and weighing , Darcy competes in the ruck as well as the forward line.
Ea ...
,
Jack Henry,
Sam Simpson
*
2017
File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...
:
Matthew Ling
Matthew Ling (born 21 April 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by Sydney Swans with the 14th draft pick in the 2017 AFL draft.
After his release from the ...
,
Tom McCartin
Tom McCartin (born 30 December 1999) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a key defender. He made his debut in round 8 of the 2018 AFL season, 2018 season agai ...
,
James Worpel
James Worpel (born 24 January 1999) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early career
One of nine siblings growing up in the regional town of Bannockburn, ...
,
Gryan Miers
Gryan Miers (born 30 March 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the Australian Football League (AFL). A small forward, he played in the TAC Cup before he was recruited by Geelong with pick 57 in the 2017 national draft. Mier ...
, Josh Jaska
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2018
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Sam Walsh,
Ned McHenry,
Connor Idun
Connor Idun (born 29 July 2000) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Connor Idun was born in London to an Australian mother and a father from Ghan ...
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Brayden Ham,
Oscar Brownless,
Blake Schlensog
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2019
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Cooper Stephens
Cooper Stephens is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. Stephens was initially drafted to the Geelong Football Club.
Early life
Stephens broke his leg at the sta ...
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2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
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Tanner Bruhn
Tanner Bruhn (born 27 May 2002) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by with the 12th draft pick in the 2020 AFL draft.
Early football
Bruhn be ...
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Oliver Henry,
Charlie Lazzaro
Charlie Jordan Lazzaro (born 25 March 2002) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by with the 36th draft pick in the 2020 AFL draft.
Early football
Lazzaro started his ju ...
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Cameron Fleeton
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2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
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Toby Conway
Toby is a popular, usually male, name in many English speaking countries. The name is from the Middle English vernacular form of Tobias. Tobias itself is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew טוביה ''Toviah'', which translates to ''Good i ...
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Mitchell Knevitt
Mitchell Knevitt (born 08 January 2003) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Geelong selected Knevitt with pick 25 in the 2021 AFL draft. Knevitt made his AFL debut in round 8 of the 2 ...
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Cooper Whyte
Cooper Whyte (born 24 February 2003) is an Australian rules footballer who previously played for Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Geelong selected Whyte with pick 64 in the 2021 AFL draft. Whyte made his AFL debut in round 2 of ...
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Australian rules football clubs established in 1992
Australian rules football clubs in Geelong
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