Rick Olarenshaw

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**Ricky Olarenshaw**
Personal Info
Birth	1 February, 1973,
Recruited from	Keilor
Height/Weight	182cm / 72kg
Playing Career¹
Debut	Round 3, April 12, 1993, Essendon vs. Collingwood, at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Team(s)	Essendon (1993—98) 77 games, 14 goals Collingwood (1999—2000) 5 games, 0 goals Kangaroos (2001) 1 game, 0 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2006 season
Career Highlights
Essendon premiership side 1993

Ricky (Rick) Olarenshaw (born 1 February 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

1 Playing career
- 1.1 Essendon
- 1.2 Later career/trades
2 Post-playing career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Essendon

Olarenshaw was recruited from Keilor in 1990 to the Essendon Football Club, where he won the under-19s best and fairest in 1991. He made his senior AFL debut in 1993 with the Bombers and enjoyed a quick rise that year. The left-foot wingman was an important player in the 1993 Bombers premiership side (known as the "Baby Bombers").

Over the following seasons he suffered numerous injuries, particularly to his rib and back. ^[1] This required him to take up ballet as a form of recovery, ^[2] and he had a good season in 1997.

[edit] Later career/trades

Olarenshaw was traded to Collingwood (instead of his preferred club, the Kangaroos) at the end of 1998 after agreeing to leave Essendon. Olarenshaw said he was disillusioned by the new surroundings at Collingwood, and suffered many injuries which restricted him to just 5 games with the club. ^[3]

At the end of 2000, he was traded to the Kangaroos, but managed only 1 game before annoucing his retirement in 2001.

[edit] Post-playing career

Olarenshaw later became a player-manager, a career which was borne out of experiences he had as a player, particularly during his trade to Collingwood. He has managed Australian rules footballers such as Jason Akermanis, as well as cricketers such as Darren Lehmann.

Also a physiotherapist, Olarenshaw is set to be hired as a medical commentator on the Seven Network's AFL coverage for 2007 onwards.^[4]