South Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2012
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and also for the Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
A Brownlow Medal winner and Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Wanganeen was appointed Port Adelaide's inaugural captain upon entry into the AFL in 1997 and is the first Indigenous Australian footballer to win the Brownlow Medal[1] and reach the 300-game milestone at senior VFL/AFL level. Since retirement, Wanganeen has taken up painting. He is a descendant of the Kokatha people,[2] a Western Desert people of South Australia, an inheritance he has explored in his art work since retirement. He has had two solo exhibitions and was an ambassador for the Adelaide Fringe in 2019.
^Hobbs, Greg (25 September 1993). "GAVIN THE GREAT". The Football Record. Vol. 82, no. 26. AFL Media. p. 7 – via State Library of Victoria.
^Ralph, Jon (4 June 2010). "Indigenous superman Gavin Wanganeen blazed a trail". Herald Sun. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football...
(AFL). He is the son of former Essendon and Port Adelaide player GavinWanganeen. Wanganeen played junior football with Walkerville Junior Football Club in...
AFL in 1997, the club appointed its first Indigenous captain in GavinWanganeen. Wanganeen would later become the first indigenous player in the AFL to play...
Wanganeen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Derick Wanganeen (born 1991), Australian rules footballer GavinWanganeen (born 1973)...
football player Gavin Walsh (born 1965), Irish computer programmer and writer GavinWanganeen (born 1973), Australian rules footballer Gavin Ward (disambiguation)...
quickly, GavinWanganeen roving at full forward after Shaun Burgoyne created a turnover to kick his third goal in the second minute; and then Wanganeen again...
Natasha Wanganeen (born 20 June 1984) is an Aboriginal Australian actress. She is known for her starring role in the 2002 feature film Rabbit-Proof Fence...
Madden in the early 1990s, the team was built on new players such as GavinWanganeen, Joe Misiti, Mark Mercuri, Michael Long, Dustin Fletcher (son of Ken)...
group of young players (most notably including Hird, Mark Mercuri, GavinWanganeen, Dustin Fletcher, Ricky Olarenshaw, David Calthorpe, Paul Hills and...
since 1968. In the week leading up to the Grand final, Essendon's GavinWanganeen was awarded the Brownlow Medal. Also during that week, Essendon caused...
v t e 2001 All-Australian team Full-back GavinWanganeen (Port Adelaide) Jonathan Hay (Hawthorn) Darren Gaspar (Richmond) Half-back Joel Smith (Hawthorn)...
All-Australian team Full-back Ben Hart (Adelaide) Alastair Lynch (Fitzroy) GavinWanganeen (Essendon) Half-back Guy McKenna (West Coast) Mark Harvey (Essendon)...
home-and-away season. GavinWanganeen of the Essendon Football Club won the medal by polling eighteen votes during the 1993 AFL season. Wanganeen was the first...
sixth in the club's best and fairest and won his second consecutive GavinWanganeen medal as Port's best player under 21. After a stunning first two seasons...
Tony Shaw made Buckley the Collingwood captain, replacing the still-active Gavin Brown who was to mentor Buckley in the role until retirement. Throughout...
AFL season. Alwyn and Aaron Davey are cousins of Brownlow medallist GavinWanganeen. Alwyn was named after his father. Davey's twin sons, Alwyn Jr and...
composer with Relative Pitch Records Stephanie Richards, former wife of GavinWanganeen Stephanie Richards, a National Order of Merit recipient from New Zealand...
was presented by 2001 Norm Smith medallist Shaun Hart. Chaired by GavinWanganeen, the voters and their choices were as follows: The teams were announced...