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Jared Rivers (born 18 October 1984) is a former
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er who played for the
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and
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in the
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(AFL).


Junior career

As a child Rivers supported the Sydney Swans, and cites
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and Paul Kelly as his childhood heroes. He attended Caritas College until Year 10 and
Sacred Heart College Senior, Adelaide , motto_translation = Courage Conquers All , city = Somerton Park , state = South Australia , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Ind ...
afterwards. He played junior football for the South Augusta Bulldogs Football club. He won a premiership with the club in 2000 at the age of 15, playing in the Spencer Gulf League. He was spotted by
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and began playing seniors under coach
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. He was considered as a potential top ten draft pick, and was selected to play for South Australia's Under 18 team in the National competition. He injured his wrist in the lead up to this match, but scouts from the
Melbourne Demons The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, ...
nonetheless selected him as the 27th pick overall in the 2002 AFL draft.


Senior career


Melbourne

Rivers played three games in his debut season, but was praised for his job on Port Adelaide's
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in his second match. After a good performance in the preseason, Rivers won a place in the first team, and was subsequently nominated for Round 3 of National Bank Rising Star in 2004. He continued his good form throughout the season right until the Demons' loss to Essendon in the Elimination Final. In the week leading up to the Final, he was awarded the 2004 Rising Star award, chosen unanimously by the nine judges. His season in 2005 was less successful, with poor form and injury culminating in him being dropped to the
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team towards the end of the season. He was also suspended for two matches after striking Hawthorn's Ben Dixon. Rivers returned to form the following season, becoming the premier defender of Melbourne Football Club, and playing his 50th career game against Port Adelaide at the MCG in Round 13. Rivers is considered a master of the one percenter. He was able to move forward on many occasions in the 2006 season, including the Queens Birthday Match when he kicked his first two goals in AFL football. Rivers was injured at the beginning of the 2007 season, and had little time on the field, suffering from a potentially season-threatening groin injury. In 2008 Rivers was injured again, with a torn abdominal against the Magpies in the annual Queens Birthday match.


Geelong

On 18 October 2012, Rivers, an unrestricted free agent under the AFL's new free agency system, signed a 2-year contract with the
Geelong Football Club 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 ...
. In August 2015, he announced his retirement from the AFL due to chronic knee problems.


Post football career

Two months after his retirement, Rivers joined Collingwood's coaching staff as a development coach, replacing
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as part of a coaching restructure. A year after joining Collingwood's coaching staff, Rivers was appointed coach of the VFL team, after
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left to take up a role as an assistant coach with the
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 ...
. Rivers coached the VFL team until the end of the 2019 season. in August 2020, Rivers joined
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in the VAFA as their head coach.


Statistics

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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; ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
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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 ...
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivers, Jared 1984 births Living people North Adelaide Football Club players Melbourne Football Club players Australian rules footballers from South Australia AFL Rising Star winners Geelong Football Club players People educated at Sacred Heart College, Adelaide