Damian Carroll

Damian Carroll
Personal information
Full name	Damian Carroll
Nickname(s)	"DC"
Date of birth	(1972-09-15) 15 September 1972 (age 44)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1992–2004	Springvale Football Club	233 (?)
2005–2008	Bonbeach	72 (?)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2009–2010	Gippsland Power	40 (23–17–0)
2010–2013	Box Hill Hawks	60 (33–27–0)
2013–present	Hawthorn (assistant coach)	–
2014	Victoria	1 (0–1–0)
³ Coaching statistics correct as of 2014.
Career highlights
1990 VFL Team of the Decade 1995, 1998, 1999 Springvale Premiership Player 1996, 1997, 2003 Springvale Best and Fairest Runner Up 2002 Springvale Best and Fairest 2005 Bonbeach Best and Fairest 5x VFL Team of the Year 2013 Box Hill Hawks Premiership winning coach Coaching record: Gippsland Power 2009-2010 Box Hill Senior Coach 2011-2013 Hawthorn Assistant Coach 2013-

Coaching record:

Damian Carroll (born 15 September 1972) is an Australian rules football coach who is currently serving as an assistant coach to Australian Football League club Hawthorn. Prior to serving in this role, he served as the head coach of Victorian Football League club Box Hill from 2011 to 2013, guiding the club to the VFL Premiership in his third season in charge.

Carroll played as a midfielder for the Springvale Football Club, accruing 233 appearances. Prior to playing for Springvale, Carroll played for the Melbourne Football Club's under 19 team and St Kilda's reserves team. During his playing career he won three VFL premierships with Springvale, won Springvale's best and fairest award in 2002, featured in the 1990 VFL Team of the Decade and featured in the VFL Team of the Year 5 times. With 233 appearances to his name, he is Springvale's all-time leader in appearances.

Carroll spent the final four years of his playing career with Bonbeach, serving as Player-coach of the club and retiring as a player in 2008. He won the clubs Best and Fairest award in 2005.

For the final four years of his playing career, Carroll served as Player-coach of Bonbeach. Shortly after retiring from football as a player, Carroll became the new coach of TAC Cup team Gippsland Power. In just his second year as coach of Gippsland, Carroll guided the Power to the TAC Cup Grand Final in 2010, losing to Calder Cannons 116-58.

In October 2010, Carroll was appointed the new head coach of Box Hill, replacing Brendon Bolton, who left after being appointed as an assistant coach with Hawthorn. Carroll's first season as Box Hill's coach was marked with inconsistency, with the Hawks winning 7 games and losing 10 to finish in 8th place on the VFL ladder, narrowly qualifying for the VFL Finals, where the Hawks were defeated by Werribee 89-63 in the first week of the finals.

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