Nicholas Hider (born 31 August 1971) 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

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. ...

in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

(AFL). Hider came to Collingwood from Camperdown, through the 1995 Pre-Season Draft. He appeared in the opening two rounds of the

1995 AFL season The 1995 AFL season was the 99th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The league expanded to ...

but didn't play any more senior games. He won his second Maskell Medal in 2003 while with

Warrnambool Warrnambool (; Eastern Maar, Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the Census in Australia#2021, 2021 census, Warrnambool had a populati ...

, having also won the

Hampden Football League The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland. The league is a major country ...

"Best and Fairest" award back in 1994, for Camperdown. In 2007, at the age of 36, he played with Maffra and won the

West Gippsland Latrobe Football League The Gippsland League (formerly known as the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball league in the Gippsland region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It is considered the only AFL Victoria ...

's top award, the Trood Award-Rodda Medal. Since 2009 he has been the coach of the Sale City Football Club that plays in the

North Gippsland Football League The North Gippsland Football League (NGFL) is an Australian rules football league in the Central Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. History The NGFL was formed in 1955 through the merger of the Cowwarr Football League and the Sale Distric ...

.Country footy
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hider, Nick 1971 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Camperdown Football Club players Warrnambool Football Club players Maffra Football Club players Living people