21 Facts About Quinten Lynch

Quinten Peter Lynch was born on 24 January 1983 and is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.

Quinten Lynch finished second in the club's best and fairest award in 2008.

Quinten Lynch quit West Coast at the end of the 2012 season, moving to Collingwood under newly implemented free agency rules.

Originally from Grass Patch, a farming community in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, Quinten Lynch attended Aquinas College, Perth, where he was captain of the First XVIII team that won the Alcock Cup, and rowed in the school's First VIII.

Quinten Lynch was recruited to the WAFL club West Perth, and in 2001 won selection as the All-Australian centre half-back at the under-18 carnival.

Quinten Lynch was selected by the West Coast Eagles in the 2002 Rookie Draft at Pick 19.

Quinten Lynch was selected to represent the WAFL in a match against the QAFL, but was instead selected to play his debut match for the West Coast Eagles.

Quinten Lynch went on to play 11 games that season.

Quinten Lynch returned to the Eagles in 2004, playing mainly as a defender.

Quinten Lynch played in the forward line for almost all of the 2005 season, playing all 22 games of the regular season, and the qualifying final, but not being selected for the Preliminary and Grand Finals.

Quinten Lynch's form improved considerably, and he took 43 marks in the first eight rounds of the regular season.

Quinten Lynch kicked a total of 65 goals for the year, making him the first Eagle to kick over 50 goals in one season since Scott Cummings.

Quinten Lynch was the Eagles' leading scorer in the 2006 grand final, kicking three goals in the Eagles' one-point victory.

Quinten Lynch's marking had improved considerably when compared to that to the two previous years.

Quinten Lynch finished the home and away season with 48 goals, adding another four in the two finals West Coast played in.

Quinten Lynch was one of eight Eagles to have played all 24 games in 2007.

Quinten Lynch played his 200th AFL game in Round 13,2012, against his future club, Collingwood.

Quinten Lynch had previously been offered a one-year contract by West Coast, which he turned down.

Quinten Lynch eventually chose to sign a two-year contract with Collingwood.

On 25 August 2014, Quinten Lynch announced that he will retire at the end of Collingwood's 2014 AFL and VFL campaigns.

Quinten Lynch married Daneka O'Brien in December 2008 at a ceremony in Margaret River, after dating for seven years.