Darryl Borlase (born 8 November 1958) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

Port Adelaide Football Club Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the ...

Football

Borlase was recruited by Port Adelaide from the Ceduna Football Club. He debuted for Port Adelaide in 1985 in the

South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ...

(SANFL) and played three games in his first season. He became a regular, first choice senior player the following year. He struggled with injury and form during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He watched from the sidelines as the Magpies procured a hat trick of premierships between 1988 and 1990. He returned in 1991 and was the club's leading goalkicker with 25 goals. In 1992, he was a key contributor to the Magpies' premiership. He was also key in their further premiership triumphs in 1994 and 1996, but missed the club's 1995 premiership after suffering a knee injury during the finals series. Borlase skippered the Magpies in his final league season in 1998, where the team won another SANFL premiership.

Agriculture

As of 2018, Borlase was employed by Archer Daniel Midland. He is an experienced

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executive, having obtained a Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Business and an Associate Diploma of Agricultural Science from the

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. In 2002, he was working in

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as a

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Personal life

Borlase's wife,

Jenny Borlase Jenny Borlase , also known as Jenny Kennett, is a former Australia netball international. Between 1989 and 1999 she made 70 senior appearances for Australia. She was a member of the Australia teams that won gold medals at the 1991, 1995 and 19 ...

, is an Australian former netball player. The couple have three children, including footballer James Borlase and basketball player

Isobel Borlase Isobel Borlase (born 12 September 2004) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Melbourne Tigers of the NBL1 South. She is also contracted with the Bendigo Spirit of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). She debuted for ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Borlase, Darryl 1958 births Living people Australian rules footballers from South Australia Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Port Adelaide Magpies players Australian commodities traders 21st-century Australian businesspeople 20th-century Australian sportsmen