Jack Riewoldt

Jack Riewoldt
Personal information
Full name	Jack Riewoldt
Original team(s)	Clarence Football Club/Tassie Mariners
Draft	13th overall, 2006 Richmond
Height / weight	195 cm / 93 kg
Position(s)	Half Forward/ Full Forward
Club information
Current club	Richmond
Number	8
Career highlights
AFL Rising Star nominee 2008 Jack Dyer Medallist/Richmond Best & Fairest 2010
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Jack Riewoldt is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Richmond in the Australian Football League.

Early life

Jack Riewoldt, cousin of Nick Riewoldt, was born in Tasmania, son of Chris Riewoldt and wife Lesley. He has two younger brothers, Harry and Charlie Riewoldt.

Riewoldt worked at retailer Sportsco and played junior football for the Tassie Mariners in the TAC Cup. His local team was Clarence in Tasmania's SFL. He wore the number seven guernsey and was a part of Clarence's premiership win in 2006. In the second Semi Final of that year, against arch-rivals Glenorchy at KGV Oval, Riewoldt kicked an incredible 80 metre torpedo punt through for a goal on the three quarter time siren.

2007–present: Australian Football League (AFL) career

Riewoldt was selected by the Richmond Football Club at 13th pick in the 2006 AFL Draft, highly rated by the Tigers as a key forward prospect.

In round sixteen 2009, Jack kicked 6 goals to help Richmond to down Essendon.

Riewoldt's confidence grew in 2010 and he kicked a career best 10 goals in Round 12, 13 June 2010 against the West Coast Eagles. The haul included 5 first-quarter goals, with 4 of them in just 10 minutes, making it one of the best Richmond returns in a single quarter. He became the first player to kick 10 goals since 2007 (and the first Richmond player since Matthew Richardson in 2004). Riewoldt joins Jonathan Brown, Stephen Milne and Mark Lecras as the only current AFL players to have recorded a double figure goal tally in a game.

To cap a magnificent breakout season, Riewoldt won the 2010 Coleman medal for the AFL leading goalkicker. Four days after winning the Coleman Medal, Riewoldt secured the Jack Dyer Medal as Richmond's best and fairest with 210 votes ahead of captain Chris Newman on 204 votes and Brett Deledio on 193 votes

In Round 21 2010, Jack won the Ian Stewart medal against St.Kilda for his amazing performance, kicking 7 goals.

References

• http://www.afl.com.au/Premiership/Statistics/tabid/73/Default.aspx
• http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pp-richmond-tigers--jack-riewoldt

External links

• Jack Riewoldt's playing statistics from AFL Tables