Player Profile: Adam Goodes

full name:

Adam Goodes

bio:

Dual Brownlow medallist

also known as:

born:

8 January 1980

physical:

height: 193 cm
weight: 97 kg

family:

mother: Lisa May

sport:

Australian Rules Football (AFL)

teams / clubs:

Sydney, Horsham/North Ballarat U18

jumper number:

37

position:

Defender, Ruck

achievements:

• Brownlow Medal 2003 (equal), 2006
  
• Best and fairest 2003
  
• 3rd best and fairest 2002
  
• All-Australian 2003, 2006
  
• International Rules Series 2001
  
• AFL Rising Star 1999
  
• Premiership side 2005, 2006

what you may not know:

• AFL debut 1999, Round 1, March 28, 1999, Sydney Swans vs. Port Adelaide Power, at Sydney Cricket Ground.
• 1997 National AFL Draft 3rd round selection (Sydney) No. 43 overall. 
• Goodes took his mother to the Brownlow Medal count in 2003
• Goodes is of Aboriginal descent