Stephen Kernahan

Stephen Kernahan
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Scott Kernahan
Nickname(s)	Sticks
Date of birth	(1963-09-01) 1 September 1963 (age 53)
Place of birth	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s)	Glenelg (SANFL)
Height / weight	196 cm (6 ft 5 in) / 102 kg (16 st 1 lb)
Position(s)	Centre half-forward, Ruckman
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1981–1985	Glenelg	136 (290)
1986–1997	Carlton	251 (738)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	South Australia	13 (47)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1997.
Career highlights
VFL/AFL 2× VFL/AFL Premiership: 1987, 1995 2× All-Australian team: 1992, 1994 3× Carlton Best & Fairest: 1987, 1989, 1992 11× Carlton Leading Goalkicker Carlton Captain: 1987-1997 Carlton Team of the Century - Centre Half Forward, (Captain) Carlton Hall of Fame: Legend Status SANFL SANFL Premiership: 1985 3× Glenelg Best & Fairest: 1983-1985 2× Glenelg Leading Goalkicker: 1983-1984 Jack Oatey Medal: 1985 South Australian Football Hall of Fame (Inaugural Inductee) Glenelg Hall of Fame Representative 2× National Football Carnival Championship: 1988, 1993 3× All-Australian team: 1985-1986, 1988 2× Fos Williams Medal: 1984, 1988 Overall Australian Football Hall of Fame
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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Stephen Scott Kernahan (born 1 September 1963 in Adelaide, South Australia) is a former Australian rules football player and administrator best known for his playing careers with the Carlton Football Club of the Australian Football League and the Glenelg Football Club of the SANFL from 1981 until 1997. He also played 13 State of Origin games for South Australia and gained selection as an All-Australian five times (1983, 1986, 1988, 1992 and 1994). He later served for six years as president of the Carlton Football Club.

Nicknamed Sticks, Kernahan was the captain of Carlton's Team of the Century and holds the club goal kicking record of 738 and the AFL record for the most games as club captain.

Stephen Kernahan is the son of Glenelg footballer, general manager and legend Harry Kernahan, and the older brother of former Glenelg and Carlton player David Kernahan. He began his senior career with Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 1981 and played 136 games, kicking 290 goals, winning 3 straight best and fairest awards. Under the coaching of 1961 Magarey Medallist John Halbert, Kernahan was a member of Glenelg's losing Grand Final teams to Port Adelaide in 1981 and Norwood in 1982.

In 1983 he topped the voting in the Magarey Medal with a then record 44 votes, made all the more remarkable as Glenelg only won 9 of 22 games for the season (after losing their first 8 games), half the number won by premiers West Adelaide. Unfortunately he was ineligible due to being reported for an incident with Norwood's Garry McIntosh in Round 4 and was suspended for Round 5. Due to the rules of the SANFL, any player who receives a suspension during a season is ineligible to win the Medal and the award was won by North Adelaide's Tony Antrobus who polled 35 votes. Kernahan was also twice leading goal kicker for The Bays, in 1983 and 1984 and in 1985 he was awarded the Jack Oatey Medal as best on ground in the club's premiership win over North Adelaide.

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