Nicholas Fredrick Riewoldt ( ; born 17 October 1982) 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
St Kilda Football Club
The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier league.
The club's name originates fro ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL). He was the first draft selection in the
2000 AFL draft. He was the captain of St Kilda in 2005 and from 2007 to 2016. Riewoldt is a five-time
All-Australian
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. He holds the all-time record for most marks in VFL/AFL history, surpassing
Gary Dempsey in late 2017.
Early life
Born in
Hobart
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,
Tasmania
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, to father Joerg ("Joe", a former
Clarence and
Coolangatta
Coolangatta is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is the Gold Coast's southernmost suburb and it borders New South Wales. In the , Coolangatta had a population of 6,491 people.
History
Coolangatta is situat ...
player) and mother Fiona, Riewoldt and his family moved to the
Gold Coast, Queensland
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, when he was 9 years old.
He attended Robina State Primary School from grade 5 alongside close friend
Sam Stosur and became the school's vice-captain and
UNICEF
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representative. He later switched to
All Saints Anglican School for his secondary schooling years. Australian rules football was not offered in many
Queensland
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schools at the time, but he made a name for himself as an overall sportsman, participating in the school's athletics, cross country, cricket, soccer and touch football teams at a high level. Academically, he also excelled in the studies of physics and chemistry.
Riewoldt played his junior and early senior football at the
Broadbeach Cats before moving to the
Southport Sharks,
[ where he was identified as an outstanding junior talent. He was selected to represent Queensland at the 2000 U18 National Championships and starred in the tournament, which earned him All-Australian honours. Riewoldt also played a crucial role in Southport's historic fourth consecutive QAFL premiership in 2000. After being kept virtually touchless for the first half while matched up on future ]Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Brisbane are the ...
premiership player Jamie Charman, Riewoldt was moved into the ruck and kicked two important goals in Southport's 11-point grand final victory.
Growing up, Riewoldt supported the Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawth ...
. He is the first cousin of footballer Jack Riewoldt, who also played as a forward.
AFL career
Riewoldt was the No. 1 Draft Pick in the 2000 AFL Draft and made his debut in 2001. He won the AFL Rising Star
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Award in 2002, earning his nomination in round 5 for his efforts in a drawn match against .
2004 season
His breakout season was 2004 when he took an AFL record 256 marks and also finished in the top ten for both the Coleman
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and Brownlow medals. He received the AFL Players Association Most Valuable Player Award, the Leigh Matthews Trophy
The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of Leigh Matthews, who won the first MVP award in 1982, when the league was s ...
and was selected in the 2004 All-Australian Team
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-perfo ...
for the first time.
2005 season
Riewoldt was rewarded for his 2004 efforts when St Kilda named him club captain for 2005 as part of their rotating captaincy policy. His 2005 season began badly as he broke his collarbone in the third quarter of the first game of the season against the Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Brisbane are the ...
. This drew controversy as he was then bumped after the injury by Lions players Chris Scott and Mal Michael. The pair were not asked to face the AFL tribunal on charges of misconduct for targeting an injured player as it was ruled that they would not have known that Riewoldt was injured, that Riewoldt had waved away a trainer that was attending to the injury and that the bumps did not contribute to the injury.
2006 season
Early in the 2006 season, Riewoldt returned close to his best form, kicking five goals against former powerhouse Brisbane in Round 3. This match seemed to have put Riewoldt's kicking "yips
In sports, the yips are a sudden and unexplained loss of ability to execute certain skills in experienced athletes. Symptoms of the yips are losing fine motor skills and psychological issues that impact the muscle memory and decision-making of ath ...
" to bed, but they returned during the Round 7 match against Geelong when he missed a simple but critical goal from 15 metres out. This miss was forgotten the next week when Riewoldt kicked 9 goals against Carlton and took many contested marks. Riewoldt also took a match saving mark for the Saints against Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
in Round 11, a match the Saints won in wet conditions, and one that kept their finals hopes alive.
Riewoldt topped off the 2006 season by winning his third Trevor Barker Award. In achieving this feat, Riewoldt has already emulated some of the Saints greatest players such as the 1966 premiership captain Darrel Baldock, former skipper Nathan Burke and past champions Wells Eicke, Jack Davis and Jim Ross
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. Riewoldt was recognised for his season with selection in the 2006 All-Australian Team
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-perfo ...
as a forward player, his second career All-Australian Team award.
2007 season
At the beginning of the 2007
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January
* January 1
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season, Lyon appointed Riewoldt Co-Captain of the St Kilda Football Club
The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier league.
The club's name originates fro ...
, along with Luke Ball
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and Lenny Hayes, both former captains themselves. Back and hamstring
A hamstring () is any one of the three posterior thigh muscles in human anatomy between the hip and the knee: from medial to lateral, the semimembranosus, semitendinosus and biceps femoris.
Etymology
The word " ham" is derived from the Old ...
injuries forced Riewoldt to miss the first two matches of the season. Riewoldt started the season well, with eight goals in his first two matches. In Round 7, Riewoldt dominated against the Sydney Swans, which kick started another outstanding year. Despite the Saints missing the finals, Riewoldt enjoyed a better year statistically than 2004, narrowly winning St Kilda's best and fairest Trevor Barker Award ahead of defender Sam Fisher.
2008 season
At the beginning of the season, Riewoldt assumed the sole captaincy of the club.
Riewoldt played in St Kilda's 2008 NAB Cup winning side – the club's third pre-season cup win. Riewoldt had a consistent 2008 season, coming second in the AFL for marks (behind Matthew Richardson) and kicking 57 home and away season goals (63 all up) to finish ninth in the competition. This performance earned him his third All-Australian selection, his first at centre-half-forward. He was also selected to play in the Hall of Fame Tribute Match, but was ultimately unable to play due to a knee injury.
2009 season
Early in the season Riewoldt became a target for the fledgling Gold Coast Football Club, which was awarded the 17th licence to enter the AFL in 2011. However, he knocked back their offer to remain at St Kilda.
Riewoldt took the most marks of any player in the league, averaging 9.7 a game and kicking 65 goals in the home and away season, averaging 3.3 a game.
He was a significant player in a St Kilda team that went through the home and away season with 20 wins and 2 defeats.
Riewoldt played in 21 of 22 matches in the 2009 home-and-away rounds in which St Kilda qualified in first position for the finals series, winning the club's third minor premiership.
Riewoldt was recognised for his season with selection in the 2009 All-Australian Team as a forward player. He was also named captain of the 2009 All-Australian Team, his fourth All-Australian Team award.
In the preliminary final against the Western Bulldogs, Riewoldt kicked four goals, one of which was in the final minutes..
St Kilda qualified for the 2009 AFL Grand Final
The 2009 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the St Kilda Football Club and the Geelong Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 2009. It was the 113th annual AFL Grand Final, grand final ...
after qualification and preliminary finals wins but were defeated by Geelong by 12 points. Riewoldt kicked one goal.
Riewoldt won the 2009 Trevor Barker Award for St Kilda's best and fairest player, setting a new club record of five career best and fairest awards. He was also St Kilda's leading goal kicker in 2009.
2010 season
During St Kilda's 28-point Round 3 win over Collingwood, on 9 April 2010, Riewoldt experienced a high-grade hamstring tear. He underwent surgery and made his return in Round 15, playing 15 games in the season for 39 goals.
Riewoldt would play in the drawn 2010 AFL Grand Final
The 2010 AFL Grand Final was a series of two Australian rules football matches between the Collingwood Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. They are considered the 114th and 115th AFL Grand Final, grand finals of the Australian Football ...
and its subsequent replay, also against Collingwood.
In the first game, Riewoldt kicked two goals and was among St Kilda's best players. After the game, the two captains, Riewoldt and Nick Maxwell of Collingwood, both stated that they would have preferred an extra time
Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...
period. Ultimately, this would be the last grand final to be replayed, as a provision for extra time in the case of a draw was introduced in 2016.
In the second game, however, Riewoldt was infamously chased down and tackled to prevent an otherwise certain goal from point-blank range by Collingwood's Heath Shaw
Heath Shaw (born 27 November 1985) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). Heath grew up in Diamond Creek and played ju ...
. St Kilda ultimately lost the replay by 56 points.
2016 season
On 1 September 2016, at the Saints' best-and-fairest awards night, Riewoldt announced that he would stand down as St Kilda captain.
2017 season
On 31 July 2017, Riewoldt announced that he would retire at the end of the season. He played the final game of his career in Round 23 when he had 15 disposals, 8 marks and 1 goal in a loss to the Richmond Tigers, his cousin's team. In Round 17, it was thought Riewoldt had beaten Gary Dempsey's supposed tally of 2,906 marks, but research not long after by veteran statistician Col Hutchinson revealed that there were possession stats missing from a game from Dempsey's career, with only his goal in that game being counted towards his stats. Nevertheless, Riewoldt broke the record beyond all reasonable doubt before the end of his final season, taking 38 more marks than Dempsey's recorded tally. For reference, Brian Lake holds the post-1999 record for most marks in a game, with 24.
Personal life
Riewoldt is married to Catherine Heard. The pair married in October 2012 at her parents' property in Waco, Texas
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, United States
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. They have three sons, born in 2014, 2016 and 2019.
His sister Madeleine died of aplastic anaemia
Aplastic anemia (AA) is a severe hematologic condition in which the body fails to make blood cells in sufficient numbers.
Normally, blood cells are produced in the bone marrow by stem cells that reside there, but patients with aplastic anemia ...
, a rare bone marrow condition, in February 2015 at the age of 26. Riewoldt and his family established Maddie Riewoldt's Vision to raise funds for research into new treatments for blood cancers. Once a year during the AFL season, when the St Kilda Saints (Nick Riewoldt's team) and the Richmond Tigers (his cousin Jack Riewoldt's) are scheduled to play against each other, it has become known as "Maddie's Match" and acts as a fundraiser to find new and improved treatments for aplastic anaemia.
He was the winner of the second season of ''Celebrity MasterChef Australia''.
Statistics
Riewoldt's player profile at AFL Tables:
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2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
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2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
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2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
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* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2012
2012 was designated as:
*International Year of Cooperatives
*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
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*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2014
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2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
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* International Year of Soil __TOC__
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2016
2016 was designated as:
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* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
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Honours and achievements
Team
* Pre-Season Cup ( St Kilda): 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
, 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
*McClelland Trophy
The McClelland Trophy is an Australian rules football club championship trophy, awarded each year to the club with the best aggregate performance across the Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW) seasons.
The trophy was inaugur ...
( St Kilda) 2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
Individual
* Trevor Barker Award: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014
* Leigh Matthews Trophy (AFLPA MVP Award): 2004
*All-Australian
The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-perfo ...
: 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
, 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
, 2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
( C), 2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
( VC)
*All-Australian
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: Captain 2009 ; Vice-Captain 2014)
* Australian Football Media Association Player of the Year: 2004
* Australian Representative Honours in International Rules Football
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: 2004, 2014, 2015
*AFL Rising Star Award
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: 2002
* AFL Rising Star Nominee: 2002 (Round 5)
* St Kilda F.C. Leading Club Goalkicker Award: 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014
* St Kilda F.C. Captain: 2005, 2007–2016
*Most marks in a season: Six times[
*Most goals kicked and most games played at ]Docklands Stadium
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