Michael O'Loughlin

Michael O'Loughlin
O'Loughlin at an autographing session in September 2012
Personal information
Full name	Michael Kevin O'Loughlin
Nickname(s)	Micky O
Date of birth	(1977-02-20) 20 February 1977 (age 40)
Place of birth	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s)	Central District (SANFL)
Draft	40th overall, 1994 Sydney
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)
Position(s)	Forward
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1995–2009	Sydney	303 (521)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1997–1999	South Australia	3 (?)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2013	Indigenous All-Stars	(1–0–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2009. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 2013.
Career highlights
Club 2x All-Australian: 1997, 2000 Sydney Best & Fairest: 1998 AFL Premiership: 2005 2x Sydney leading goalkicker: 2000–01 2x Deadlys Award: 2005, 2009 Deadlys Male Sports Person of the Year: 2009 Madden Medal: 2009 AFL Rising Star nominee: 1995 Australian Football Hall of Fame Indigenous Team of the Century Representative Fos Williams Medal: 1998
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Club

Representative

Michael Kevin O'Loughlin (born 20 February 1977) is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played his entire Australian Football League career with the Sydney Swans.

O'Loughlin was named a member of the Indigenous Team of the Century. He was the third player with Indigenous heritage to play 300 AFL games. He twice achieved All-Australian selection, played for Australia twice in the International Rules Series, and was a Fos Williams Medallist as best player for South Australia in State of Origin. O'Loughlin was the first Sydney Swans player to play more than 300 career games. In 303 games he kicked 521 career goals.

His parents never married, so he was given his mother's maiden name of O'Loughlin, which came from her Irish great-great-great-grandfather. O'Loughlin's ancestors were Czech Jews, Indigenous Australian (Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri), and Irish and English. His paternal grandfather was a Czech Jew.

He grew up in Adelaide,South Australia and first played senior football with Centrals in the SANFL.

Selected in the third round of the 1994 National Draft, O'Loughlin played 12 senior games for the Swans in 1995 and earned a AFL Rising Star award nomination. The following year, he was a key player in the team that won the minor premiership and then lost to North Melbourne in the grand final. He was the games record holder for the Swans, passing John Rantall's VFL/AFL record in Round 14 of the 2007 season and Bill Windley's 102 year old overall club record in the Elimination Final of that year, until he was overtaken by his close friend Adam Goodes. He became the first Sydney Swans/South Melbourne player to break the 300 games milestone in Round 19, 2009.

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