Benjamin Ronke (born 18 December 1997) is a former professional

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er who played for the

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in the

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(AFL). He was drafted by Sydney with their first selection and seventeenth overall in the 2017 rookie draft. He made his debut in the seventeen point win against at GMHBA Stadium kicking two goals in round six of the

2018 AFL season The 2018 AFL season was the 122nd season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season feature ...

. In his third match, the Swans played against Hawthorn at the MCG, and Ronke became the first player to notch up seven goals and ten tackles in an AFL Match since the introduction of detailed statistics in the VFL/AFL in 1987. His performance in the match saw him earn the round 8 nomination for the

2018 AFL Rising Star The NAB AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League (AFL). Jaidyn Stephenson of was the winner with 52 votes ahead of Tom Doedee Tom Doedee ( ; born 1 March 1997) is a professional ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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Honours and achievements

Individual * 22under22 team: 2018 * AFL Rising Star nominee: 2018 (round 8)

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* * * Living people 1997 births Sydney Swans players Calder Cannons players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian people of South African descent 21st-century Australian sportsmen People educated at St. Bernard's College, Melbourne {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub