Gavin Wanganeen

Gavin Wanganeen
Personal information
Full name	Gavin Adrian Wanganeen
Nickname(s)	Wanga
Date of birth	(1973-06-18) 18 June 1973 (age 43)
Place of birth	Mount Gambier, South Australia
Original team(s)	Salisbury North
Draft	No. 12, 1989 National Draft, Essendon
Height / weight	181cm / 83kg
Position(s)	Utility
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1990 1991 – 1996 1997 – 2006(AFL)	Port Adelaide (SANFL) Essendon Port Adelaide	0240(46) 01270(64) 01730(138) 03000(202)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1992–1998	South Australia	8 (?)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2005.
Career highlights
Club 2× AFL premierships: 1993, 2004 Brownlow Medal: 1993 5× All-Australian team: 1992, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2003 John Cahill Medal: 2003 Port Adelaide captain: 1997-2000 Australian Football Hall of Fame Essendon Team of the Century: Back Pocket Champions of Essendon: Number 19 Michael Tuck Medal: 1993 Port Adelaide (SANFL) premiership: 1990 Representative National Football Carnival Championship: 1993
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Club

Representative

Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Australian Football League (AFL) and Port Adelaide in both the AFL and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Wanganeen won the 1993 Brownlow Medal. Wanganeen is a descendant of the Kokatha Mula people. He is the first cousin of brothers Aaron and Alwyn Davey.

Wanganeen was born in Mount Gambier to a footballing family; his great-grandfather had played for the local team at the Koonibba mission near Ceduna. He is an Indigenous Australian of Kokatha Mula descent.

His family moved from Mount Gambier to Port Lincoln for a few years. By the time Wanganeen was 5 they moved again to Salisbury, a norther suburb in Adelaide.

Wanganeen played junior football for Adelaide based South Australian Amateur Football League club Salisbury North and attended Salisbury East High School.

At the age of 14, Wanganeen joined the Port Adelaide Under 17s side in the SANFL.

Wanganeen made his senior SANFL debut with Port Adelaide in 1990 at only 16 years of age. The 1990 SANFL season was the last year that the competition was the highest level of football in South Australia. He played 24 matches and kicked 46 goals, winning the SANFL Rookie of the Year award, starring in Port Adelaide's 1990 SANFL Grand Final win kicking two goals.

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