Shannon Grant (born 19 April 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who was a midfielder in the AFL. He began his career at the Sydney Swans in 1995 before moving to the

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in 1998 and being a part of their 1999 premiership side, in which he also won the Norm Smith Medal for best on ground. In 1996, he actually played against North Melbourne in the Grand Final, playing on the losing side of Sydney. In the 2005 season, Grant was involved in numerous comeback victories by the Kangaroos. The first was in Round 2 against the Sydney Swans, at

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. Trailing by 17 points at 3 quarter time, Grant and his team mates lifted with Grant kicking three goals to help the Roos to a convincing win. The following week against , the Roos again lifted from a 3rd quarter shocker, trailing against the highly fancied St Kilda which had not lost a game at

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since 2003. Grant once again kicked four goals in the last quarter to defeat the Saints by seven points (100 to 93). In Round 19, the Kangaroos trailed by three goals with four minutes to play against at Telstra Dome. Grant announced his retirement on 26 August 2008. The following Saturday, he played the 300th game of his career. His 301st and last game of AFL football was an elimination final against his former club, the Sydney Swans, at

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in Sydney, which the Kangaroos lost by 35 points. Grant was given a standing ovation by both Sydney and North Melbourne players as he left the ground for the final time. Grant coached the

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for one season in the

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(VFL) in 2009. At season end of 2009, he was appointed coach of the struggling

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for 2010, also in the VFL. Grant joined the Western Bulldogs' coaching panel as an assistant coach for 2012 after two seasons at Essendon. In 2015, Grant coached the senior team at Greenvale Football Club in the

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. The team played off in the grand final, losing to Aberfeldie Football Club. In June 2018, Grant was sentenced to six months in prison for assaulting his former partner. The sentence was overturned on appeal, and he was ordered to complete 200 hour of community service.

Playing statistics

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

^# , , , 6 , , 24 , , 37 , , 11 , , 310 , , 181 , , 491 , , 110 , , 27 , , 1.5 , , 0.5 , , 12.9 , , 7.5 , , 20.5 , , 4.6 , , 1.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 25 , , 29 , , 18 , , 304 , , 131 , , 435 , , 127 , , 28 , , 1.2 , , 0.7 , , 12.2 , , 5.2 , , 17.4 , , 5.1 , , 1.1 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 20 , , 26 , , 21 , , 315 , , 164 , , 479 , , 101 , , 46 , , 1.3 , , 1.1 , , 15.8 , , 8.2 , , 24.0 , , 5.1 , , 2.3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 20 , , 12 , , 17 , , 227 , , 125 , , 352 , , 76 , , 33 , , 0.6 , , 0.9 , , 11.4 , , 6.3 , , 17.6 , , 3.8 , , 1.7 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 20 , , 22 , , 23 , , 287 , , 159 , , 446 , , 108 , , 41 , , 1.1 , , 1.2 , , 14.4 , , 8.0 , , 22.3 , , 5.4 , , 2.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 22 , , 23 , , 18 , , 273 , , 194 , , 467 , , 89 , , 55 , , 1.0 , , 0.8 , , 12.4 , , 8.8 , , 21.2 , , 4.0 , , 2.5 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 23 , , 39 , , 24 , , 296 , , 135 , , 431 , , 122 , , 29 , , 1.7 , , 1.0 , , 12.9 , , 5.9 , , 18.7 , , 5.3 , , 1.3 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006 , style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 18 , , 21 , , 18 , , 247 , , 109 , , 356 , , 127 , , 31 , , 1.2 , , 1.0 , , 13.7 , , 6.1 , , 19.8 , , 7.1 , , 1.7 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 25 , , 39 , , 21 , , 281 , , 137 , , 418 , , 135 , , 40 , , 1.6 , , 0.8 , , 11.2 , , 5.5 , , 16.7 , , 5.4 , , 1.6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 21 , , 29 , , 17 , , 209 , , 129 , , 338 , , 111 , , 41 , , 1.4 , , 0.8 , , 10.0 , , 6.1 , , 16.1 , , 5.3 , , 2.0 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 301 ! 361 ! 235 ! 3599 ! 1910 ! 5509 ! 1382 ! 487 ! 1.2 ! 0.8 ! 12.0 ! 6.3 ! 18.3 ! 4.6 ! 1.6

Honours and achievements

Team * AFL premiership player (/):

* McClelland Trophy ():

Individual * Norm Smith Medal:

Syd Barker Medal The Syd Barker Medal is awarded to the North Melbourne Football Club player who has been judged the best and fairest of the footy season. The award has been given out continuously since 1937. Before then it was known as the Syd Barker Memorial Tr ...

All-Australian team The All-Australian team is an all-star team of 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-performed players during the season, led by ...

* Australian international rules football team:

* AFL Rising Star nominee: 1996 (Round 6)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Shannon 1977 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) North Melbourne Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club Premiership players Sydney Swans players Norm Smith Medal winners All-Australians (AFL) Syd Barker Medal winners Western Jets players Australia international rules football team players Australian people convicted of assault One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players