Scott Spalding

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Scott Spalding
Personal information
Full name Scott Spalding
Date of birth (1968-09-02) 2 September 1968 (age 56)
Original team(s) Perth
Draft 118th overall, 1992 AFL Draft
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 81 kg (179 lb)
Position(s) Forward flank
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1993 Carlton 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1993.
Career highlights
  • SANFL premiership player, 1994
  • WAFL premiership player, 1998
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Scott Spalding (born 2 September 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL). [1] Originally from Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), Spalding returned to his former club after only one season with the Blues, and another with Port Adelaide in the SANFL, where he played in a premiership and won the Most Consistent Trophy for the Magpies. He later moved to play with East Fremantle, another WAFL club. In 1998, he won a WAFL premiership with East Fremantle, playing alongside his brother, Earl Spalding, also a former Carlton player.

He attended school at Wesley College in South Perth.

Notes

  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 786. ISBN   978-1-921496-00-4.


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