Benet Copping
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Benet Copping (born October 7, 1986) is an Australian rules footballer. He plays mainly as either a centre half-forward or centre half-back and began his football career at Mt. Barker Football Club in the Adelaide Hills Football League.
[edit] Fremantle Dockers
Recruited from the Sturt Football Club as selection no. 59 in the 2004 AFL Draft, he is a key position prospect who spent the 2005 season as a development player. The nephew of former Essendon defender Stephen Copping, he mainly played in the WAFL reserves competition for East Perth in 2005 and early 2006, before earning a regular spot in defence in the league team. At Fremantle he was allocated guernsey number 26.
Copping was delisted at the end of the 2006 season without playing a senior game for Fremantle. Copping was taken with Fremantle's last round pick in the Rookie Draft.