Brendan Whitecross
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Brendan Whitecross is a current Australian rules football
er in the Australian Football League
with the Hawthorn Football Club
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Whitecross started his football life at the Kedron Districts Junior Football Club in Brisbane, Queensland playing there for 11 seasons before moving on to the Zillmere Eagles to commence his senior career. He represented Queensland in under 12's(2002), under 16's (2005–2006), captaining the team in 2006 and in U18's in 2007. He was selected to the AIS/AFL Academy and traveled with the Australian U17 team to South Africa in 2007.
He is an all round sportsman having represented his state in Athletics and is an accomplished cricketer, cross country runner, rugby union player and swimmer and Captained his schools St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe, Brisbane Athletics Squad.
On 14 June 2009, Whitecross re-signed with Hawthorn Football Club for two more seasons.http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/78776/default.aspx
Brendan Whitecross closed an outstanding 2009 season at Hawthorn by winning the club's 2009 "Most Improved Player" Award. Whitecross, who debuted in the Round 1 grand final replay against Geelong after spending entire 2008 season in the VFL, polled 31 votes to finish 19th in the B&F vote-count a fantastic effort given that he only played 13 of 22 games.
http://www.velocitysports.com.au/default.asp?PageID=1171
Whitecross attended St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
.
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
er in the Australian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
with the Hawthorn Football Club
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
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Whitecross started his football life at the Kedron Districts Junior Football Club in Brisbane, Queensland playing there for 11 seasons before moving on to the Zillmere Eagles to commence his senior career. He represented Queensland in under 12's(2002), under 16's (2005–2006), captaining the team in 2006 and in U18's in 2007. He was selected to the AIS/AFL Academy and traveled with the Australian U17 team to South Africa in 2007.
He is an all round sportsman having represented his state in Athletics and is an accomplished cricketer, cross country runner, rugby union player and swimmer and Captained his schools St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe, Brisbane Athletics Squad.
On 14 June 2009, Whitecross re-signed with Hawthorn Football Club for two more seasons.http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/78776/default.aspx
Brendan Whitecross closed an outstanding 2009 season at Hawthorn by winning the club's 2009 "Most Improved Player" Award. Whitecross, who debuted in the Round 1 grand final replay against Geelong after spending entire 2008 season in the VFL, polled 31 votes to finish 19th in the B&F vote-count a fantastic effort given that he only played 13 of 22 games.
http://www.velocitysports.com.au/default.asp?PageID=1171
Whitecross attended St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
St. Patrick's College is a private, Roman Catholic, day school for boys, situated on the waterfront in Shorncliffe, north of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia....
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