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Brett Deledio

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Personal Info
Birth	April 18, 1987, Kyabram, Victoria
Recruited from	Murray Bushrangers
Height/Weight	188cm / 81kg
Playing Career¹
Debut	Round 1, March 27, 2005, Richmond vs. Geelong, at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Team(s)	Richmond (2005-) 43 games, 19 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2006 season
Career Highlights
TAC Kevin Sheehan Medal winner AIS/AFL Academy 2003 Victoria Country 2004 U-18 All Australian 2004 TAC Cup Team of the Year 2004 National Draft Camp 2004 U-18 International Rules Series '04 AFL AFL Rising Star 2005 AFL Players Association Best First-Year Player International Rules Series '05

Brett Deledio (born April 18, 1987 in Kyabram, Victoria) is an Australian rules football player currently playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Contents 1 Early life/career 2 Football career 2.1 2005 - an award-winning debut year 2.2 2006 and onwards 3 References 4 External links

Deledio attended Kyabram High School and Caulfield Grammar School.^[1] During his youth, he was both a promising cricket and football player. David Hookes, then the coach of the Victorian Bushrangers, invited Deledio to join the state team, but he declined this offer to concentrate on any future AFL career. Whilst many may not know this, Brett was actually enrolled to attend Caulfield Grammar School which is the same school that hosted the likes of Chris Judd and Andrew Walker. Unfortunately after only a handful of days at the school it is believed that Terry Wallace pulled him out due to the pressurised season which was ahead of him in 2005. Brett Deledio went on to study with a tutor and won the Rising Star award for the best young star of 2005.

Deledio is the face of fashion label Travisty.

He soon debuted for the Murray Bushrangers as the team's youngest squad member, before being selected with the first overall selection in the 2004 AFL Draft On August 31, 2005, Deledio was awarded for his outstanding season with the AFL Rising Star award, receiving 43 of a possible 45 votes. Deledio followed his Rising Star Award by also winning the AFL Players' Association Best First-Year Player Award, voted by his peer players.

Capping off his debut season, Deledio was chosen to represent Australia in the International Rules series for 2005, becoming the youngest Australian player in the competition's history.

Deledio played 21 out of 22 matches in 2006, again a consistent performer, missing one game with an injured knee.

1. ↑  Greenberg, Tony. "Flea glee over new Tiger No. 3", richmondfc.com.au, 10 Jan 2005.

• Brett Deledio statistics from RLeague

• Brett Deledio profile on RichmondFC.com.au
• Feature story on Brett Deledio from his debut year at the Yellow and Black Supporters Forum and Website

Preceded by Jared Rivers

AFL Rising Star 2005

Succeeded by Danyle Pearce