Seamus Maloney is a former
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 ...
er who played for
Sturt in the
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Originally formed as the ...
(SANFL) from 1996 to 2003. For four seasons from 2012 he was the head coach of the Sturt Football Club,
resigning from the role at the end the 2015 season.
Playing career
Playing as a running defender/half back, Maloney played 152 games for
Sturt from 1996 to 2003, winning the
best and fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
in 2001 and was acting captain for the 2002 premiership.
SANFL retirement
In 2004, Maloney moved to
Mildura and returned to Imperials in the
Sunraysia Football League where he played in the 2004 premiership and coached them (as a playing coach) to the 2005 and 2008 premierships.
In 2011, he returned to Adelaide where he re-joined Sturt as an assistant coach.
Coaching
Maloney was appointed as coach of Sturt following the end of the 2011 season,
his contract was extended at the end of the 2013 season.
He resigned from Sturt at the end of the 2015 season.
Coaching statistics
References
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Living people
Sturt Football Club coaches
Sturt Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)