Shaun Rehn

Shaun Rehn
Personal information
Full name	Shaun Jason Rehn
Date of birth	(1971-08-17) 17 August 1971 (age 45)
Place of birth	Arno Bay, South Australia
Original team(s)	West Adelaide (SANFL)
Height / weight	203 cm (6 ft 8 in) / 106 kg (16 st 10 lb)
Position(s)	Ruck
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1991–2000	Adelaide	134 (55)
2001–2002	Hawthorn	033 0(7)
Total		167 (62)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1994, 1998	South Australia	002 0(0)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2003–2005	West Adelaide (SANFL)	70 (27–43–0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2005.
Career highlights
Malcolm Blight Medal 1994 AFL premiership player 1997, 1998 All-Australian 1994, 1998 Australian International Rules representative Adelaide Football Club Team of the Decade (1991–2000) – Ruck Adelaide Football Club life member 2000 South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee 2006
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Shaun Jason Rehn (born 17 August 1971) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Rehn started his AFL career in 1991 with the Adelaide Crows in their inaugural year in the Australian Football League. After some eye catching performances for West Adelaide (who were making a late season charge to the SANFL finals), he made his debut for the Crows against Sydney in Round 18 of the 1991 AFL season at Football Park in Adelaide.

At 6'8" (203 cm) he became a leading ruckmen, but suffered three ACL knee injuries overall on both knees which limited his playing ability. The last of those injuries was sustained when his good knee buckled and twisted after running onto a small rubber circle installed in the centre of the turf ground; the circles had been installed onto grounds to assist umpires with centre bounces, but Rehn's injury, and subsequent legal action, saw the circles swiftly removed from all grounds. Rehn's injury kept him on the sidelines for most of the 1996 season after having spent much of the previous season out with the same injury. His knee injuries restricted him to just 6 games in those two seasons, three in each.

Rehn played 134 games and kicked 55 goals for the Crows between 1991 and 2000 and was a member of the Crows 1997 and 1998 premiership teams, before moving to Hawthorn in 2001 in the twilight of his career. He played 33 games and kicked 7 goals with the Hawks between 2001–2002 before retiring from AFL football.

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