12 Facts About Kym Hodgeman

Kym Hodgeman won the Reserves grade Magarey Medal in 1974 despite spending almost half the season playing in Glenelg's league team.

Kym Hodgeman won Glenelg's best and fairest award in 1977 and 1978 and topped the club's goal kicking for seasons in 1978 and 1979.

In 1978, Kym Hodgeman won the League's highest individual award, the Magarey Medal for "fairest and most brilliant" player, polling one vote more than three-time winner of the award, Russell Ebert.

In 1979 Kym Hodgeman was selected as an All-Australian following that year's State of Origin Carnival in Perth.

In late 1977, he signed a Form Four which tied him to the Carlton Football Club when he chose to move to Victoria; but, in 1980, while Kym Hodgeman was still at Glenelg, Carlton traded his Form Four to Melbourne as part of a deal to secure Greg Wells.

Kym Hodgeman had no desire to play for Melbourne, and objected to Carlton's treatment of his contract, likening it to horse trading, so he turned his back on both clubs and signed with North Melbourne in 1981.

Kym Hodgeman played five seasons with the Kangaroos, winning their best and fairest award, the Syd Barker Medal in 1984.

Over his five seasons in the VFL Kym Hodgeman played in 91 games, kicking 133 goals.

Kym Hodgeman returned to Glenelg in 1986, playing in a winning Grand Final side that year against North Adelaide.

Kym Hodgeman won his third Glenelg best and fairest award in 1989, before retiring as a player at the end of 1990 following the Tigers' loss to Port Adelaide in the Grand Final.

Kym Hodgeman was inducted into the Glenelg Hall of Fame in 2002 and the same year was one of 113 inaugural inductees into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Kym Hodgeman is the uncle of former Glenelg footballer Ben Moore and former North Melbourne, Adelaide and Western Bulldogs player Scott Welsh.