3 Coaching statistics correct as of round 23, 2019.
Career highlights
Club
2x AFL Premiership Player: 1992, 1994
West Coast Club Champion: 1993
2× Claremont Premiership player: 1987, 1996
Claremont Best and Fairest: 1988
West Coast Life Membership: 2003
Coaching
McClelland Trophy: 2017
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Donald Lachlan Pyke (born 5 December 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who is the CEO of the West Coast Eagles having previously been an assistant coach at the Sydney Swans.[1] He was formerly the senior coach of the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).[2] He played for the West Coast Eagles from 1989 to 1996.
Pyke was the first United States born player in the Australian Football League and played more games and kicked more goals than any other American born player in the history of the league with 132 games and 97 goals. Pyke was recruited by the Claremont Football Club for the 1987 WAFL season, playing in a premiership in his first season and winning the club's best and fairest award in his second season. This led to his recruitment by West Coast, who selected him prior to the 1988 National Draft. Pyke spent eight seasons at the club, playing in premiership sides in both 1992 and 1994, and sharing the Club Champion Award with Glen Jakovich in 1993.
After retiring from playing, Pyke was the senior coach of Claremont from 1999 to 2000. He became served as an assistant coach at Adelaide in 2005 and 2006, and later rejoined West Coast as a strategy coach at the end of the 2013 AFL season, under Adam Simpson. He was appointed senior coach of Adelaide in October 2015, replacing Phil Walsh. He coached the team to the 2017 AFL Grand Final, in which they were defeated by Richmond.
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2008. Retrieved 23 September 2016. Rucci, Michelangelo (19 March 2016). "DonPyke's vision for his first job as an AFL senior coach is to be very much in...
joins nest". Adelaide Football Club. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2019. "Pyke named new Crows coach". Adelaide Crows. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 3 April...
Michelangelo (4 October 2017). "Adelaide's on-field leaders wanted coach DonPyke to leave Jake Lever out of AFL finals teams unless the defender committed...
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Telstra Media. Retrieved 25 August 2015. Spits, Scott (9 October 2015). "DonPyke appointed Adelaide senior coach". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 9 October...
Adelaide coach DonPyke for AFLCA Senior Coach of the Year award". Fox Sports Australia. Retrieved 27 September 2017. "Dimma edges Don for coach of the...
appointed Fremantle coach". The Age. Gaskin, Lee (12 September 2019). "Don gone: Pyke parts ways with Crows after four seasons". AFL.com.au. Retrieved 20...
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be Adelaide captain but leadership spots up for grabs, says Crows coach DonPyke". Adelaide Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2016. Rucci...
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