Rick Olarenshaw (born 1 February 1973) is a former

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er in the

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. He was formerly a boundary rider for

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until being replaced by Matthew Richardson.

Playing career

Essendon

Olarenshaw was recruited from

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in 1990 to the

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, where he won the under-19s

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in 1991. He made his senior AFL debut in 1993 with the Bombers and enjoyed a quick rise that year. The left-foot wingman was an important player in the 1993 Bombers premiership side (known as the " Baby Bombers"). Over the following seasons he suffered numerous injuries, particularly to his rib and back, but he went on to enjoy a good season in 1997.

Later career/trades

Olarenshaw was traded to Collingwood (instead of his preferred club, the

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) at the end of 1998 after agreeing to leave Essendon. Olarenshaw was disillusioned by the new surroundings at Collingwood and suffered injuries that restricted him to just five games with the club. At the end of

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, he was traded to the Kangaroos, but he managed only one game before announcing his retirement in 2001.

Statistics

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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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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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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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Post-playing career

Following the 2009 AFL season, he was removed as Channel 7's boundary rider in favour of Matthew Richardson.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Olarenshaw, Rick 1973 births Living people Australian television presenters Collingwood Football Club players Essendon Football Club players Essendon Football Club Premiership players North Melbourne Football Club players Keilor Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Australian physiotherapists Australian sports agents People educated at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players People from Keilor, Victoria