Kym Hodgeman

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Kym Hodgeman
Personal Info
Birth July 30, 1956,
Recruited from Glenelg, (SANFL)
Height/Weight 174cm / 74kg
Playing Career¹
Debut , North Melbourne vs. , at
Team(s) Glenelg, (SANFL) (1974 - 1980, 1986 - 1990)
  • 244 games 411 goals

North Melbourne (1981-1985)

  • 91 games 133 goals
Coaching Career¹
Team(s) Glenelg (1991-1992)
¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season
Career Highlights

  • Glenelg Best and Fairest 1977, 1978, 1989
  • Glenelg Leading goalkicker 1978, 1979
  • Glenelg premiership player 1986
  • Glenelg Hall of Fame inducted 2002
  • Magarey Medallist 1978
  • Played 9 Rep games for South Australia
  • SANFL Hall of Fame inducted 2002
  • North Melbourne Best and Fairest 1984
  • All-Australian1979

Kym Hodgeman is a former Australian rules footballer best known for his playing career with North Melbourne, VFL and Glenelg, SANFL in the 1970s and 1980s.

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[edit] SANFL career

A goalkicking rover, Hodgeman established a reputation as a skillful and courageous player. He won the Reserves grade Magarey Medal in 1974 despite spending almost half the season playing in the League team.

Hodgeman won Glenelg's best and fairest award in 1977 and 1978. He also topped the club's goal kicking for seasons in 1978 (51 goals) and 1979 (32 goals). In 1978 Hogeman won the League's highest individual award, the Magarey Medal for "fairest and most brilliant" player, polling one vote more than the renowned Port Adelaide Football Club's Russell Ebert[1] . In 1979 Hodgeman was selected as an All Australian following that year's interstate carnival in Perth, Western Australia.

[edit] VFL career

Like many South Australian players of the time, Hodgeman was lured to the more lucrative VFL, moving to North Melbourne in 1981.

Hodgeman played five seasons with the Kangaroos, winning their best and fairest award, the Syd Barker Medal (and also 'Best Clubman') in 1984. Over the five seasons Hodgeman played in 91 games, kicking the creditable tally of 133 goals.

[edit] SANFL career part II

Hodgeman returned to Glenelg in 1986, playing in a winning Grand Final side that year against North Adelaide. He won a third best and fairest award in 1989, before retiring as a player at the end of the following year.

Following the recruitment of the Glenelg coach, Graham Cornes OAM, by the newly formed Adelaide Crows, Hodgeman coached the Glenelg side in 1991 and 1992, taking them to a losing Grand Final in his last year.

Hodgeman was inducted into the Glenelg Hall of Fame in 2002.

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