Shane Harvey is a former Australian rules footballer.

Career

He was drafted by the Essendon Football Club in the

2001 AFL Draft The 2001 AFL draft consisted of a state draft, a body draft, a pre-season draft and a trade period. The AFL draft is the annual draft of players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Austra ...

at pick 18 in the first round from the

Northern Knights The Northern Knights is an Australian rules football club playing in the NAB League, the top statewide under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based in Preston, representing the northern suburban area of Melbourne. The Knights a ...

. He played 11 games with Essendon before being delisted after the 2003 season. The

Kangaroos Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...

picked him at pick 6 of the 2004 Pre-Season Draft after they had promised his brother

Brent Harvey Brent Harvey (born 14 May 1978), often known by his nickname "Boomer", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He holds the record for most matches playe ...

that they would select Shane if he was available. He played 3 games for the Kangaroos and finished his AFL career at the end of the 2004 season. He has since played for country and suburban clubs, including

Wakool Football Club Wakool is a town in the western Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Wakool is in the Murray River Council local government area, south west of the state capital, Sydney and north-west of Melbourne. At the , Wakool had a population ...

in the

Golden Rivers Football League The Golden Rivers Football Netball League (GRFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball organisation with clubs in north central Victoria and the western Riverina district of New South Wales. The League formed in 1919 and was known as th ...

, in which he helped Wakool win the premiership in 2006, and then

North Heidelberg Football Club North Heidelberg Football Club (North Heidelberg Sporting Club) is an Australian rules football club in Heidelberg West, Victoria, currently competing in Division 1 of the Northern Football Netball League it also has 5 female netball teams compe ...

in 2008 and 2009. He played for Barooga in the

Murray Football League The Murray Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league affiliated with the Victorian Country Football League. The league covers a large area of northern Victoria (Australia), Victoria and southern New South Wales ...

in 2010. Shane has the ability to kick a lot of goals in the local competitions. He kicked 116 goals for Wakool in 2006 and 107 in 2007, scored 108 goals for North Heidelberg in 2008 and 102 in 2009, and scored 102 goals at Barooga in 2010. His Junior club was Preston R.S.L. Football Club. Playing for North Heidelberg against

Hurstbridge Hurstbridge is a town in Victoria, Australia, 28 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Hurstbridge recorded a population of 3,554 at the 2021 census. Hurstbri ...

in 2021, he scored his 1000th Northern Football League goal, becoming the first player to do so.

References

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* Essendon Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players 1983 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Northern Knights players North Heidelberg Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1980s-stub