Cameron Pedersen

Cameron Pedersen
Pedersen in March 2017
Personal information
Full name	Cameron Pedersen
Date of birth	(1987-03-17) 17 March 1987 (age 30)
Original team(s)	Box Hill Hawks (VFL)
Draft	No. 17, 2011 rookie draft
Debut	Round 1, 2011, North Melbourne vs. West Coast, at Patersons Stadium
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	99 kg (218 lb)
Position(s)	Utility
Club information
Current club	Melbourne
Number	21
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2011–2012	North Melbourne	16 (20)
2013–	Melbourne	49 (38)
Total		65 (58)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 9, 2017.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Cameron Pedersen (born 17 March 1987) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A utility, 1.93 metres (6 ft 4 in) tall and weighing 99 kilograms (218 lb), Pedersen has played the majority of his career in the forward line. After missing out on being drafted at eighteen years of age, he played five seasons in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the Box Hill Hawks. His form during the 2010 season led to him being recruited by the North Melbourne Football Club with the seventeenth selection in the 2011 rookie draft and he made his debut in the 2011 season. After two seasons with North Melbourne, playing in sixteen matches and winning the club's best first year player, he was traded to the Melbourne Football Club during the 2013 trade period.

Pedersen played his junior career with the Mooroolbark Football Club in the Eastern Football League where he won the club best and fairest at sixteen years of age in 2003. After failing to be drafted, he joined the Box Hill Hawks in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 2006, playing in the forward line, he kicked thirty-five goals in 2009. In 2010, he was trialled as a defender and ruckman by Box Hill coach, Brendon Bolton, and he became a utility player, whereby he could play in multiple positions on the ground. In May 2010, he represented Victoria when he played for the VFL in a representative match against the West Australian Football League at Leederville Oval in Perth. After a successful season in the VFL, in which he played twenty matches and featured in the team's best players in ten matches, he was invited to train with the Gold Coast Football Club in the week leading to the 2011 pre-season and 2011 rookie drafts. It was predicted by The Age journalist, Brent Diamond, and Herald Sun journalists, Matt Windley and Nick Smart, that Pedersen would be recruited by Gold Coast in either the pre-season or rookie draft.