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Ainslie Football Club
Ainslie Football Club is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. The club formed in 1927 and won its first premiership in 1929. Ex- St Kilda star Kevin Neale was captain-coach for six seasons (1978–1983), during which time Ainslie won four premierships: 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983. In 1984 Ex-Collingwood and Richmond player Rod Oborne captain-coached the club, winning the 1984 premiership. The club was also coached by former VFL/AFL great David Cloke. Chris Rourke coached Ainslie for 14 years from 2007-2020 taking the club to six premierships during that period. The club entered the NEAFL for the competition's inaugural season in 2011 - finishing the year as Eastern Conference premiers. The club left NEAFL at the end of the 2015 season and returned to the AFL Canberra competition. The Club's male record games holder is Todd Pulford (236 games) and the female record holder is Dani Curcio (236 games*). Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Canberra
AFL Canberra is the name of the local governing body for and premier competition of Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory (and the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales). It acts as an umbrella to several competitions beneath it. These competitions are Seniors First Grade, Seniors Second Grade, Thirds, Fourths and a Rising Stars League. A women's league, the Australian Capital Territory Women's Australian Football League operates separately though most AFL Canberra clubs also field women's teams. History The league was founded as the Federal Territory Australian Rules Football League in 1924 with founding members Acton and Queanbeyan. The following year, the premiership was contested by 4 clubs including Canberra, Federal and Duntroon. By 1926 the competition had gained popularity and was contested by 5 clubs. AFL Canberra was once a very popular local league, however since the introduction of the Swans and matches featuring AFL clubs being played at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken McGregor (footballer)
Ken McGregor (born 29 January 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted at pick 75 in the 1998 AFL Draft. After retiring from professional football he spent some time as a political journalist for the '' Adelaide Advertiser'' before moving to Canberra. He also played football for Ainslie in the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL). He was the coach of the Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 2013 and coached fellow SANFL club North Adelaide in 2014 and until his contract was terminated after round 9 of the 2015 season. Career Early career (1999–2001) Debuting as an 18-year-old for the Adelaide Crows, McGregor played a few solid games in his first season. He picked up 18 disposals in his first game, as well as 6 marks and a goal. He then went on after a few more solid performances to play the rest of the season. He averaged 8 disposals a gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Clayden
Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the country in the Caucasus ** Kingdom of Georgia, a medieval kingdom ** Georgia within the Russian Empire ** Democratic Republic of Georgia, established following the Russian Revolution ** Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent of the Soviet Union * Related to the US state ** Province of Georgia, one of the thirteen American colonies established by Great Britain in what became the United States ** Georgia in the American Civil War, the State of Georgia within the Confederate States of America. Other places * 359 Georgia, an asteroid * New Georgia, Solomon Islands * South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Canada * Georgia Street, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada * Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tess Cattle
Tess or TESS may refer to: Music * Tess (band), a Spanish pop band active from 2000 to 2005 * TESS (musician), a UK musician Film and theatre * ''Tess'' (1979 film), a 1979 film adaptation of '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' * ''Tess'' (2016 film), a South African production * ''Tess'' (play), a stage adaptation of ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' featuring Tanya Franks Science and technology * Trademark Electronic Search System, a service of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office * Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a space telescope designed to search for extra-solar planets * Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate, a birth control pill * Typhoon Tess (other) Other uses * Tess (given name) * Nikolay Tess (1921–2006), member of the Soviet Ministry for State Security, convicted in Latvia of mass deportations of Latvians in the 1940s See also * TES (other) Tes or TES may refer to: Places * Tés, a village in Hungary * Tes River, a river in Mongolia * Tes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britt Tully
Brittany Tully (born 3 May 1993) is an Australian rules footballer and softballer. Tully plays for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's competition and retired in 2021. She was drafted by Greater Western Sydney with their tenth selection and eightieth overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the thirty-six point loss to at Thebarton Oval in the opening round of the 2017 season. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games and ranked second for tackles and third in clearances in the league. She placed 3rd in the GWS Best & Fairest Gabriel Trainor Medal in 2017. Tully won the best and fairest of AFL Canberra Women's for three consecutive years, between 2016 and 2018. Tully was listed as an inactive player for GWS for personal reasons in 2019 but has now been recontracted to resume with GWS for the 2020 season. In June 2021, she retired. She plays for Boomerangs Softball Club in Canberra and played for the ACT Diam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Brazil
Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest". It is most common in the United States and United Kingdom. Notable people B *Ashleigh Ball (born 1983), Canadian voice actress *Ashleigh Ball (field hockey) (born 1986), British field hockey player *Ashleigh Banfield (born 1967), Canadian-American journalist *Ashleigh Barty (born 1996), Australian tennis player *Ashleigh Baxter (born 1991), Irish rugby union footballer *Ashleigh Brazill (born 1989), Australian netball player *Ashleigh Brennan (born 1991), Australian gymnast *Ashleigh Brewer (born 1990), Australian actress *Ashleigh Brilliant (born 1933), English author * Ashleigh Buch (born 1984), American soldier *Ashleigh Buhai (born 1989), South African golfer C *Ashleigh Clare-Kearney (born 1986), American gymnast *Ashleigh Connor (1989–2011), Australian footballer *Ashleigh Cummings (born 1992), Australian actress D *Ashleigh Dallas (born 1994), Australian singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron VandenBerg
Aaron vandenBerg (born 3 March 1992) is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A midfielder, tall and weighing , vandenBerg has the ability to contribute as both an inside and outside midfielder, whilst also pushing into the forward line. After missing out on the draft at eighteen years of age, vandenBerg played in the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) with the Ainslie Football Club where he won two best and fairest awards and was twice named in the NEAFL team of the year. His performances in the NEAFL saw him recruited by the Melbourne Football Club with the second selection in the 2015 rookie draft and he made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2015 season. Early life Originally from Western Australia, vandenBerg moved to Tathra, New South Wales with his family at ten-years of age where he played junior football with the Tathra Football Club. He was first noticed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Tutt
Jason Tutt (born 15 May 1991) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Canberra he played his junior football for Ainslie, Tutt was recruited to the Australian Football League by the Western Bulldogs with the number 31 draft pick in the 2009 AFL Draft. He made his AFL debut in Round 22, 2011 against Port Adelaide Football Club and kicked three goals with his first three kicks. Tutt spent five seasons at the Bulldogs, playing 26 senior games in that time. He won Victorian Football League premiership with the Footscray reserves in 2014 while at the club. Tutt resigned from the Bulldogs at the end of the 2014 season, after arranging a move to the Carlton Football Club from 2015. Tutt received permission to train with Carlton in November 2014, and was formally recruited by the club in the 2015 pre-season draft. At the conclusion of the 2016 season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Stevens (footballer)
Alan Keith Stevens (5 August 1923 – 2 November 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also had a noted career in the Canberra Australian National Football League, with Ainslie, Eastlake- Manuka and Eastlake. Career Early career during the war Stevens, a defender, spent his first two years of senior football with Canberra club Ainslie. He won Ainslie's best and fairest award and finished third in voting for the Mulrooney Medal in 1941, his second season. From 1942 to 1944, Stevens played for the merged Eastlake- Manuka combination. The merger ended in 1945 and Stevens played for Eastlake that season. He was named amongst Eastlake's best players in their one-point win over Navy in the 1945 grand final. New captain of Ainslie Stevens returned to Ainslie in 1946, as club captain. He had a triumphant return, ending the season with a premiership, Mulrooney Medal and another Ainslie best and fairest. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Smith (Australian Rules Footballer)
Shaun Smith (born 22 June 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL. Originally from the Ainslie Football Club in the Australian Capital Territory, but recruited from Werribee and debuting in the Australian Football League in 1987, Smith is best known for his incredible leap and ability to take spectacular marks or speckies. His high leaping play enabled him to hold down a key position whilst being only 184 cm and is sometimes compared to Russell Robertson. Smith debuted with the North Melbourne Football Club in 1987 and was delisted due to a string of injuries at the end of 1992 after 47 games and 38 goals. He played for Werribee in 1994, and had a dominant season there. He was one of the Association's leading goalkickers for the season, finished third in the J. J. Liston Trophy count, and continued his reputation for taking high marks. He was consequently recruited back to the AFL by for the 1995 season. By far Smith's most successful and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross W
Ross or ROSS may refer to: People * Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan * Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning * Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland Places * RoSS, the Republic of South Sudan Antarctica * Ross Sea * Ross Ice Shelf * Ross Dependency Australia * Ross, Tasmania Chile * Ross Casino, a former casino in Pichilemu, Chile; now the Agustín Ross Cultural Centre Ireland *"Ross", a common nickname for County Roscommon * Ross, County Mayo, a townland in Killursa civil parish, barony of Clare, County Mayo, bordering Moyne Townland * Ross, County Westmeath, a townland in Noughaval civil parish, barony of Kilkenny West, County Westmeath * Ross, County Wexford * The Diocese of Ross in West Cork. The Roman Catholic diocese merged with Cork in 1958 to become the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross, while the Church of Ireland diocese is now part of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. This area, cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Smith (Australian Footballer)
Robert "Rob" Smith (26 May 1951 – 24 May 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Biography Smith was educated at Canberra High School and played his early football for Ainslie. He moved to Melbourne in 1970 to do a chartered accountants course at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, with hopes also of joining a VFL club. North Melbourne While he awaited a clearance, Smith trained with North Melbourne, who were in a dispute with Geelong over his signature. Geelong, who had approached Smith the previous year, claimed that he had signed a form to play for their club. The CANFL were also taking a stand against clearing young players which cast further doubt over his future and blocked his clearance in a meeting on 14 May. A week later however they reversed the decision and ratified his clearance, which paved finally the way for him to join North Melbourne. Smith did not play a senior game in 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
