1. Jace Bode was born on 14 September 1987 and is an Australian rules footballer who played for Australian Football League club Melbourne in 2007 and 2008 and now plays for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League.
Jace Bode excelled at many sports at junior level as well as football, particularly cricket, athletics and basketball.
Jace Bode is a natural left-footer and played senior football for Sturt in 2005 before being selected in the Under-18 All-Australian side, on the wing.
Jace Bode was taken at No 9 in the 2006 AFL Rookie Draft, and made his debut in Round 19 of the 2007 season.
Jace Bode broke into the Sandringham Zebras first-team towards the end of 2006, playing five games.
Jace Bode suffered from a serious back injury in the early parts of 2007 but regained full fitness and was elevated from the rookie list before his debut in a resounding victory against the Western Bulldogs.
Jace Bode played in the last four matches of the 2007 season, kicking two goals in the final match of the season against Carlton.
Jace Bode was retained on the Melbourne list for 2008, and played in the Round 2 thrashing at the hands of the Bulldogs, and was dropped the following week.
Jace Bode did manage to break back into the starting side for the round 11, Queen's Birthday clash against Collingwood, where he played in front of a crowd of 60,000.
Jace Bode was delisted by Melbourne at the end of the 2008 season.
Jace Bode came back to Adelaide where he was put on the Sturt list for the 2009 season.
Jace Bode is a triple premiership player at the Redlegs after playing in the 2012,2013 and 2014 grand finals with Norwood defeating West Adelaide, North Adelaide and Port Adelaide respectively.
Since 2020 Jace Bode is a senior player coach at Payneham Norwood Union Football Club a Division 1 side in the Adelaide Footy League.
Jace Bode joins former senior coach and Norwood legend Garry McIntosh.
In November 2014 Jace Bode married Natalie von Bertouch, a former Australia netball international.