Chris Waterman (born 19 September 1968) is a former Australian rules football player and coach. Waterman’s playing career started in Rossmoyne’s junior football zone where he was eventually recruited by the

East Fremantle Football Club The East Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Sharks, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The team's home ground is East Fremantle Oval. East Fremantle are th ...

at the age of fifteen. He played in the club’s Colts, Reserves and Senior line-up and finished with a total of 61 senior games. In 1988 Waterman made his AFL debut wearing a

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Footbal ...

guernsey, and under the guidance of coaches John Todd and Mick Malthouse, went on to play a total of 177 matches (including 22 AFL finals, 3 Grand Finals and 2 Premierships) for the club and earned "Player Life Member" status. Chris retired in 1998.

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Waterman began his coaching career, taking the role of defensive coach for his former club, the

. in 2001, he was appointed defensive coach of the

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until the end of 2005. Waterman also coached both the 2004 and 2005 Western Australian State teams and was assistant coach for the 2007 and 2008 State Team. In 2006, Chris Waterman became the Senior Coach of the

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and in 2008 signed a 3-year contract which would see him remain at the club until 2010. At the end of the 2009 WAFL season, Chris Waterman resigned as head coach of Peel Thunder and is currently looking to get back into the coaching at AFL level. Waterman's sons,

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and

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were both drafted by the West Coast under the

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, although Alec played for Essendon for the 2021 and 2022 seasons before returning to West Coast into a dual roal as development coach and as a player in the WAFL side

Statistics

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ru ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 31 , , 10 , , 10 , , 3 , , 110 , , 38 , , 148 , , 42 , , 12 , , 1.0 , , 0.3 , , 11.0 , , 3.8 , , 14.8 , , 4.2 , , 1.2 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 31 , , 6 , , 13 , , 9 , , 49 , , 16 , , 65 , , 25 , , 10 , , 2.2 , , 1.5 , , 8.2 , , 2.7 , , 10.8 , , 4.2 , , 1.7 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 26 , , 6 , , 3 , , 308 , , 127 , , 435 , , 65 , , 29 , , 0.2 , , 0.1 , , 11.8 , , 4.9 , , 16.7 , , 2.5 , , 1.1 , , 2 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" , style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;",

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines ...

† , style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 24 , , 6 , , 6 , , 287 , , 118 , , 405 , , 98 , , 48 , , 0.3 , , 0.3 , , 12.0 , , 4.9 , , 16.9 , , 4.1 , , 2.0 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 20 , , 15 , , 20 , , 224 , , 108 , , 332 , , 92 , , 28 , , 0.8 , , 1.0 , , 11.2 , , 5.4 , , 16.6 , , 4.6 , , 1.4 , , 2 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" , style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;",

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

† , style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 18 , , 3 , , 4 , , 127 , , 56 , , 183 , , 54 , , 17 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 7.1 , , 3.1 , , 10.2 , , 3.0 , , 0.9 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 20 , , 8 , , 7 , , 243 , , 120 , , 363 , , 103 , , 28 , , 0.4 , , 0.4 , , 12.2 , , 6.0 , , 18.2 , , 5.2 , , 1.4 , , 10 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 12 , , 7 , , 7 , , 161 , , 55 , , 216 , , 55 , , 19 , , 0.6 , , 0.6 , , 13.4 , , 4.6 , , 18.0 , , 4.6 , , 1.6 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 12 , , 0 , , 1 , , 114 , , 68 , , 182 , , 41 , , 15 , , 0.0 , , 0.1 , , 9.5 , , 5.7 , , 15.2 , , 3.4 , , 1.3 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 39 , , 22 , , 5 , , 10 , , 265 , , 146 , , 411 , , 112 , , 30 , , 0.2 , , 0.5 , , 12.0 , , 6.6 , , 18.7 , , 5.1 , , 1.4 , , 1 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 177 ! 75 ! 72 ! 1977 ! 870 ! 2847 ! 714 ! 243 ! 0.4 ! 0.4 ! 11.2 ! 4.9 ! 16.1 ! 4.0 ! 1.4 ! 15

Notes

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West Coast Eagles Premiership players East Fremantle Football Club players 1968 births Living people Western Australian State of Origin players Peel Thunder Football Club coaches Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Subiaco Football Club coaches Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players