Shane Crawford

Shane Crawford
Crawford at Hawthorn training in 2007
Personal information
Full name Shane Barry Crawford
Date of birth (1974-09-09) 9 September 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Mount Barker, South Australia
Original team(s) Finley(NSW)/Assumption College
Draft No. 13, 1991 national draft
Debut Round 1, 1993, Hawthorn vs. Melbourne, at Waverley Park
Height 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1992–2008 Hawthorn 305 (224)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1993 NSW/ACT 1 (1)
1996–1998 Allies 2 (2)
International team honours
1998–2003 Australia 8 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2008.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Shane Barry Crawford (born 9 September 1974) is a former Australian rules football player, television media personality and author. He played 305 senior games for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). During his AFL career he became captain of Hawthorn in 1999 and that season also won the AFL's top individual honours, the Brownlow Medal and the Leigh Matthews Trophy. He is a four-time All-Australian player and played in three International Rules series for Australia.[2] He has won four Hawthorn Best & Fairest Awardand was a member of Hawthorn's 2008 premiership side.

Crawford is currently the head coach with the Ardmona Cats.[3]

  1. ^ "Hawthorn's pocket rockets". Hawthorn Football Club. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference CareerInfo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Balmer, Max (8 May 2021). "Country football club snap 2121-day losing streak with the help of Hawks legend". Fox Footy. News Corp. Retrieved 6 July 2021.