Luke Blackwell formerly played for Carlton in the Australian Football League, and for Claremont in the West Australian Football League where he was the winner of the 2011 Sandover Medal.
15 Facts About Luke Blackwell
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Luke Blackwell's family moved back to Western Australia in 1993, where Blackwell attended Mazenod College, Perth and later coached Perth from 1996 to 1998 and East Fremantle in 2000.
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Luke Blackwell made his AFL debut in Round 8,2006 against St Kilda.
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Luke Blackwell spent most of the 2005 season playing for the Northern Bullants, Carlton's VFL-affiliate, playing mainly as a midfielder, before his season was ended by a broken jaw.
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Luke Blackwell began to break his way into the Carlton side in 2006, with his best game being the Round 13 clash against Brisbane, where he gathered 26 possessions and received two votes in the Brownlow Medal.
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Luke Blackwell played ten of the last eleven games of the season.
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Luke Blackwell returned to Western Australia in 2009, joining the Claremont Football Club.
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Luke Blackwell found more consistent form, winning the EB Cook Medal as Claremont's best and fairest in both 2009 and 2010.
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Luke Blackwell was awarded the Simpson Medal as best on ground for WAFL representative side against the Victorian Football League in 2010, gathering 37 disposals.
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Luke Blackwell won the 2011 Sandover Medal for the fairest and best player in the WAFL, polling 42 votes; he had been runner-up in for the award in 2010, losing to Swan Districts' Andrew Krakouer.
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Luke Blackwell was part of Claremont's 2011 premiership team, his first senior premiership.
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Luke Blackwell again won the EB Cook Medal for Claremont's best and fairest, for a third consecutive time.
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Luke Blackwell was named in Claremont's "Greatest Ever Team", which was announced in late 2013.
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Luke Blackwell left Claremont at the end of 2014, returning to Victoria where he joined Essendon District Football League club Aberfeldie.
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Luke Blackwell played with Aberfeldie from 2015 until 2019, where he won the Reynolds Medal as premier division best and fairest in 2016, two Reg Rose Medals as best on ground in the grand final, and a total of three premierships, before retiring at the end of 2019.