1. Reece Conca was born on 12 August 1992 and is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League.
71 Facts About Reece Conca
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Reece Conca was born to parents Loui and Gina, with an older brother named Luke and a twin sister named Cassie.
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Reece Conca spent his formative years in Victoria Park, Western Australia, a suburb three kilometres south-east of Perth.
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Reece Conca was quick to learn however, playing above his age group within his first year of picking up the sport.
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Reece Conca attended high school at Perth's Trinity College and graduated in 2009 after captaining the school's senior football side.
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Reece Conca then began studying a university degree in commerce and psychology while in his final year of junior football eligibility in 2010.
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Reece Conca ceased playing for his school and local club that year, instead focusing on playing state team matches and with the Perth WAFL colts side.
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Reece Conca was impressive throughout that year including recording multiple 30 possession games in the colts side.
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In November 2010 Reece Conca was predicted by the Herald Sun's Jay Clark to be selected by Sydney with the 21st overall selection in the forthcoming draft.
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Reece Conca was at the same time compared to former Adelaide player Tyson Edwards and praised for his speed, creativity and midfield versatility.
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Reece Conca was noted for his abilities as a roaming defender along with his ability to handball cleanly in congestion.
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Reece Conca was drafted by Richmond with the club's first pick and the sixth selection overall in the 2010 AFL national draft.
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One of six first round draft selections on the Richmond list in 2011, Reece Conca came to the club with significant expectations despite the injury affected pre-season.
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Reece Conca lived up to them early, making his AFL debut with a 15 disposal performance in round 1 of the 2011 season in a match against Carlton at the MCG.
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Reece Conca remained in the side for a further four matches but saw his output reduced before being left out of the side to face Carlton in round 15.
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Reece Conca returned after just one week however, playing in rounds 16 through 18 before missing another single match in round 19.
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Reece Conca returned in round 20 to play just one more match at senior level that year.
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Reece Conca finished 2011 having played 17 matches and held averages of 15.6 disposals, four marks and 1.8 tackles per game.
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Reece Conca was awarded the Cosgrove-Jenkins award at season's end as the club's best first year player.
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Reece Conca was fully fit for pre-season matches however, and in the NAB Cup opener, Conca was involved in a collision where he appeared to purposely block the path of unsuspecting North Melbourne's defender Leigh Adams.
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The classification drew 425 demerit points and four-match suspension though a guilty plea entered by Reece Conca reduced this suspension to three-matches.
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Reece Conca doubled that mark in round 3, kicking two goals and recording a career-best 29 disposals in a round 3 win over Melbourne.
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Reece Conca kicked goals again in rounds 6 and 7 before entering the bye in round 13 having played in all 12 of Richmond's AFL matches and holding averages of 18.5 disposals, 4.3 marks and 2.9 tackles per game.
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Reece Conca missed his first match of the season in round 14 immediately following the bye before returning with 23 disposals against Melbourne in round 15.
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Reece Conca was impressive in round 19 when he matched his career-best 29 disposals and added seven marks, a performance that earned him his first Brownlow Medal vote of his career.
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Reece Conca remained in the team for just one game though, fracturing the third metatarsal in his right foot while playing against the Western Bulldogs in round 20.
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Reece Conca placed 15th in the club's best and fairest count.
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The lead up to the 2013 season was hampered by the continuing effects of the foot injury suffered the year previous, with the fracture failing to heal properly and Reece Conca developing Achilles soreness as a result that saw him spend 10 weeks in a stabilising moon boot.
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Reece Conca returned to fitness before the season began, and the year saw Conca make his biggest scoreboard impact of his career, a feat that started with a goal in round 1's win over Carlton.
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Reece Conca repeated the effort in round 2, this time along with 25 disposals.
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Reece Conca remained in the side for the following nine-weeks before playing a starring role with 21 disposals and a career-high three-goals in a round 20 win over the Brisbane Lions.
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Reece Conca repeated the effort two weeks later in his 50th career match, kicking three-goals to go with 28 disposals and seven marks in a 121-point demolition of Greater Western Sydney.
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Notably Richmond's fitness staff said the injury's severity had been a surprise given Reece Conca had never previously had hamstring troubles.
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Reece Conca finished the year having played 17 matches, kicked a career-best 12 goals and placed 17th in the club's best and fairest count.
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Fox Footy commentator David King at this time labelled him a must-keep player for Richmond, comparing Reece Conca's playing style to that of former Brownlow Medallist Jimmy Bartel and predicting Reece Conca would soon be behind only captain Trent Cotchin as Richmond's best midfielder.
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Reece Conca ultimately re-signed with Richmond, accepting a three-year deal and announcing it was "never in doubt" that he would opt to remain with the club.
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Reece Conca returned in a pre-season match later that month, playing an "outstanding" first half with 16 disposals and five clearances before being rested for the remainder of the match.
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Reece Conca equaled a then-career-best with eight tackles in that match before breaking it with 10 more in round 3.
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Reece Conca went one better in round 6, laying 11 tackles in a loss to Hawthorn at the MCG.
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Reece Conca played a further three matches at AFL level before missing rounds 12 and 13.
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Reece Conca made an immediate return following the suspension, playing in the last two of nine consecutive wins to close out the season and win his side through to an elimination final match-up with Port Adelaide.
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Reece Conca kicked the side's first goal in that match and contributed a team-high inside 50s but it was not enough to avoid a 57-point eliminating loss.
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Reece Conca finished the year having recorded a career-best 96 tackles, the most of any player at the club that season.
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Reece Conca trained at full capacity in the early part of the pre-season, entering the 2015 calendar year fully fit.
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Reece Conca remained in the side for one more week before yet another hamstring injury saw him sidelined again.
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Reece Conca came on as the substitute player midway into the third quarter and kicked an immediate goal.
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Reece Conca finished the year having played just three AFL matches.
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Reece Conca made a role change from midfield to half-back as well, and played this role during the club's pre-season matches.
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Reece Conca missed 11 AFL matches as a result of the injury, making his return to football in round 12's match-up with Gold Coast at the MCG.
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Reece Conca played four consecutive matches before missing one in round 17 and returning for two more games in round 18 and 19.
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Reece Conca returned to contention for AFL selection by the start of the 2017 JLT Community Series, playing in all three pre-season matches including gathering 24 disposals and being named among Richmond's best in the final match of the series against Collingwood.
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Reece Conca earned AFL selection in round 1, tasked with a rebounding half-back role.
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Reece Conca performed strongly in the first two weeks of the season before turning in an exceptional match against West Coast where he recorded four rebound 50s, four intercepts and six marks along with 25 disposals, his first such haul in nearly three years.
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In round 6 Reece Conca suffered what appeared to be an ankle injury in the first quarter of the match against Adelaide, before returning to close out the remainder of the contest.
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Reece Conca finished the year having played just six AFL matches and bringing his three-year total to just 15 of a possible 70 appearances at senior level.
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Reece Conca completed a full pre-season training regime in the lead-in to the 2018 season and underwent a positional change during that time, moving into a predominately midfield role after playing at half-back in previous years.
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At the mid-season bye Reece Conca had played in all 13 senior matches so far that year and led the club in tackles and ranked top-five for disposals, contested possessions and centre clearances.
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In round 15 and immediately following the bye, Reece Conca lined up in his 100th AFL match.
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The dislocation was corrected without surgery and Reece Conca spent less than two weeks in a stabilising moon boot before returning to aerobic conditioning training.
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The injury did not prove serious however, with Reece Conca considered back to full fitness in time to be recalled to AFL football the following week.
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Reece Conca recorded 21 disposals, including 18 by three-quarter time, in that round 22 win over Essendon.
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Reece Conca held his spot the next week and helped the club seal its position as ladder leaders at the end of the home and away season.
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Reece Conca played a contributing role with 17 disposals and six tackles in the club's qualifying final win over Hawthorn and followed it with 18 disposals and five tackles in the shock knock-out preliminary final loss to Collingwood.
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Reece Conca finished the season having played 18 matches and placed third at the club for total tackles recorded that season.
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Reece Conca headed into the 2018 trade period as an unrestricted free agent after previously putting contract talks with Richmond on hold until the end of the season.
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Reece Conca's manager confirmed that he had attracted an offer from Fremantle but that negotiations with Richmond were ongoing.
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Two days before the beginning of the 2018 free agency period, The Australian reported that Reece Conca was set to forgo a two-year deal at Richmond to sign a longer term free agency contract with Fremantle.
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When Fremantle's leadership group was announced ahead of the 2019 season, Reece Conca was a surprise addition to the group, having been voted into the group by his new teammates.
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Across the 11 games prior to Fremantle's mid-season bye, Reece Conca averaged 20.5 disposals per game, his highest return from all his previous seasons.
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Reece Conca is a part of the Bannockburn football netball club in the GDFL.
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Reece Conca traveled to Rio de Janeiro in the summer before the 2014 season, one of nine Richmond players making a cultural-exchange trip as part of a project to work with disadvantaged kids that was developed by researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.