Mark Summers (footballer)

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Mark Summers
Personal information
Full name Mark Summers
Date of birth (1966-08-04) 4 August 1966 (age 56)
Original team(s) Old Xaverians
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 89 kg (196 lb)
Position(s) Ruckman
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1988–89 Richmond 15 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1989.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Mark Summers (born 4 August 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the late 1980s.

Summers played his early football at Old Xaverians with a strong presence before joining Richmond. He was used mostly as a ruckman and centre half forward in the VFL and after just three appearances in 1988 was a regular for the second half of the 1989 season. He only twice played in a winning team at Richmond after being struck down with a knee injury in game, forcing Summers to retire.

He competed in the 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival with the Australian Amateurs side.

Summers is now a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and has three children, Madeleine, Claudia and Harrison.

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