Nick Carter (footballer)

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Nick Carter
Personal information
Full name Nick Carter
Date of birth (1978-04-28) 28 April 1978 (age 41)
Original team(s) Golden Square, Bendigo Pioneers
Draft 20th overall, 1995 AFL Draft
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1996 Fitzroy 17 (4)
1997–1998 Brisbane Lions 05 (1)
1999 Melbourne 03 (1)
Total25 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1999.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Nick Carter (born 28 April 1978) is a former Australian rules football player. During his career Carter played for Fitzroy, Brisbane and Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between goal and behind posts.

Fitzroy Football Club Australian rules football club

The Fitzroy Football Club, nicknamed the Lions or the Roys, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897. The club experienced some early success in the league and was the first club to win a VFL Grand Final. It also achieved a total of eight VFL premierships between 1898 and 1944, and more recently three VAFA promotions in 2009, 2012 and 2018 . The club ran into financial difficulties in the 1980s after decades of poor on-field performance and was forced to merge its AFL playing operations with the Brisbane Bears at the end of the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions.

Brisbane Lions Australian rules football club

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Early life

Carter began playing football for Golden Square as a junior. [1] He then played for the Bendigo Pioneers in the TAC Cup. [2] Carter played for the Victorian Country team at the 1995 AFL Under 18 Championships. [2]

The Golden Square Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Bulldogs, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the Bendigo suburb of Golden Square, Victoria.

The Bendigo Pioneers is an Australian rules football team in the statewide Victorian under-18s league, the NAB League.

The NAB AFL Under 18 Championships are the annual national Australian rules football championships for players aged 18 years or younger. The competition is seen as one of the main pathways towards being drafted into a team in the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). Originally known as the Teal Cup, the competition began in 1953 between Queensland and New South Wales, but now features teams from each Australian state and mainland territory. Since 2017, the division 2 competition has been replaced by the Under 18 Academy Series, with teams from the 4 Queensland and NSW AFL clubs' academies in addition to Northern Territory and Tasmania state teams. The best players from the academy competition then combine to form an 'Allies' team in conjunction with South Australia, Western Australia and two Victoria teams, Metro and Country to contest the division 1 tournament. The tournament is currently sponsored by the National Australia Bank, having previously been sponsored by Caltex and the Commonwealth Bank. The winner of the 2018 division 1 tournament was South Australia.

AFL career

Fitzroy

Carter was drafted by Fitzroy Football Club with the 20th selection in the 1995 AFL Draft, with coach Michael Nunan stating the club was looking for "players with pace and finish to play in the midfield". [2] Carter had an impressive first AFL season, [1] debuting in round 6 [3] and remaining in the senior team for the rest of the season, playing 17 matches. [4] He was nominated for the 1996 AFL Rising Star award in round 8. [5] Despite a good season personally, Fitzroy struggled both on the field, winning only one match for the whole season, and financially. Due to crippling financial problems, Fitzroy was forced to merge with the Brisbane Bears at the end of the 1996 season, to form the Brisbane Lions. [6]

1996 AFL Rising Star

The Norwich AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League. The 1996 medal was won by West Coast player Ben Cousins.

Brisbane Bears former Australian rules football club

The Brisbane Football Club, nicknamed the Bears was an Australian rules football club and the first Queensland-based club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The club played its first match in 1987, but struggled on and off the field until it made the finals for the first time in 1995. The Bears only narrowly missed out on a position in the grand final the following year when they were defeated by eventual premiers North Melbourne at the MCG in the preliminary finals. They merged with the Fitzroy Football Club at the completion of the season to form the Brisbane Lions.

Brisbane

Only eight Fitzroy players became Brisbane Lions players, [7] with the majority of the team coming from the Brisbane Bears list. Carter, however, was one of those eight players. [7] In his two seasons with Brisbane, Carter only managed to play five games, [8] struggling to break into the senior side of a team with what Martin Blake described as "the best depth in the competition". [7]

Melbourne

After struggling to gain a spot in the Brisbane senior team, Carter was traded to Melbourne at the end of the 1998 season [9] for the 45th draft pick in the 1998 AFL Draft. [10] Carter only managed three games for the Demons and he was delisted at the end of the 1999 season. [11] Carter nominated for the 1999 AFL Draft, [12] but he was not selected, thereby ending his AFL career.

Melbourne Football Club Australian rules football club

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Post-AFL career

After failing to be picked up in the 1999 Draft, Carter began playing with the Bendigo Diggers in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He played for Bendigo for eight seasons and was captain [13] and assistant coach of the club during that time. In 2003 Carter was Bendigo's best and fairest player for the season, [14] his third win of the award in four seasons. [15] Carter also regularly represented the VFL when playing against other state leagues, such as the SANFL and the WAFL. [16]

The Bendigo Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The club played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1998 until 2014, under the nicknames Diggers, Bombers and Gold at different times. The club disbanded at the conclusion of the 2014 VFL season.

Victorian Football League state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia

The Victorian Football League (VFL) is the major state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria. The league evolved from the former Victorian Football Association (VFA), and has been known by its current name since 1996. For historical purposes, the present VFL is sometimes referred to as the VFA/VFL, to distinguish it from the present day Australian Football League, which was known until 1990 as the Victorian Football League and is sometimes referred to as the VFL/AFL.

In Australian sport, the best and fairest, or fairest and best in some competitions e.g. West Australian Football League, recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.

Carter is currently the coach of the Golden Square Football Club, [17] [18] the club he played junior football for. [1]

Honours

Carter was named captain of the Bendigo Team of the Decade. [19] Bendigo's best and fairest award is named the Carter Medal, in honour of his contributions to the club. [20] He became the first Bendigo player to play 100 games for the club. [13]

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  17. ↑ McNicol, Adam (18 July 2010). "Weeks a long time in football". The Age. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
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