Gus Seebeck

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Gus Seebeck
Personal information
Full name Gus Seebeck
Date of birth (1977-09-18) 18 September 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Perth, Australia
Position(s) Ruckman / full-forward
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1996; 1998; 2000 South Fremantle 13 (9)
1999 Perth 20(5)
2001–09 East Coast Eagles 142 (??) [1]
Coaching career
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
2002 East Coast Eagles ?? (??)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2009.
Career highlights

Gus Seebeck (born 18 September 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for South Fremantle and Perth in the West Australian Football League/Westar Rules (WAFL), and the East Coast Eagles in the AFL Sydney. [2]

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Football career

Seebeck was a member of the Victorian Teal Cup winning side in 1994 and played for the Prahran Dragons in the TAC Cup, captaining them in 1995. [3] Of the 25 players in the Victorian side that year, 23 were drafted into the Australian Football League (AFL) in either the 1994 or 1995 AFL Draft, but Seebeck was overlooked. He then moved to Perth and played reserves football for South Fremantle whilst he studied Aquaculture at Curtin University. An abundance of tall players limited Seebeck's chance to play in the senior team and despite winning the Prendergast Medal in 1998 as the fairest and best player in the reserves competition, he only managed to play eleven senior games in three years. [4]

In 1999 he moved to play with Perth, as South Fremantle had entered into a host club arrangement with Fremantle and there was likely to be even more competition for positions in the league team. The move was instantly successful, as he was a surprise winner of the 1999 Sandover Medal, beating favourite Ryan Turnbull by one vote. In 2000, however, with the host club arrangement disbanded, he returned to South Fremantle, but only played two games before moving to Sydney for work. [4]

He continued to play football in Sydney for the East Coast Eagles. He was a player coach during the 2002 season. Seebeck was chairman of the club between 2008 and 2014. [5] [6] [7]

Professional career

In 2000, Seebeck joined the PGA Tour as operations manager for Australasia, which was based in Sydney. He had previously worked for the organising committee for the Heineken Classic golf tournament when it was based in Perth. In 2005, Seebeck became general manager of the Australasian PGA Tour. [8] [9]

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References

  1. ↑ 137 Sydney Premier Division games and 5 NEAFL games
  2. ↑ Gus Seebeck – WAFLOnline player profile. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "Sandringham Dragons". sportingpulse.com.
  4. 1 2 East, Alan (2006). The Sandover Medal Men. pp. 427–432. ISBN   0-9775813-0-6.
  5. ↑ Gus Seebeck Archived 25 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – East Coast Eagles. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "2016 Year Book" (PDF). East Coast Eagles AFL Football Club. 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  7. ↑ Butler, Steve (25 September 2009). "Seebeck in the trenches". The West Australian. p. 10.
  8. ↑ Reed, David (22 October 2005). "Footy champ lands golf's toughest job". The West Australian. p. 203.
  9. ↑ Lewis, Ross (4 April 2000). "Golf job in Sydney prompts Seebeck to quit". The West Australian. p. 66.


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