Isaac Weetra

Isaac Weetra
Personal information
Full name Isaac Weetra
Date of birth 27 February 1989 (1989-02-27) (age 23)
Place of birth Whyalla
Original team Port Adelaide Magpies
Height/Weight 184cm/76kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2007–2008 Melbourne 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics to end of Round 2, 2008 season .
Career highlights
  • Under 18 Indigenous Australia tour to South Africa
  • Naish Travers Medallist 2005

Isaac Weetra (born 27 February 1989) is a semi-professional Australian rules footballer.

He is notable for his brief Australian Football League stint, playing with the Melbourne Demons and wearing the No. 28 guernsey.

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Early life

In 2006 he represented Australia's indigenous youth on tour to South Africa with the "Flying Boomerangs" to play against the South Africa's Buffaloes.[1]

Weetra was recruited from Port Adelaide Magpies in the SANFL at Pick No. 62 in the 2006 AFL Draft. In 2005, he was awarded the Naish Travers Medal for best on ground during the Whyalla Football League Grand Final, playing for his club West Whyalla.

AFL

Weetra debuted in the AFL in Round 1, 2008 against Hawthorn at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He was dropped after his second game against the Western Bulldogs and played the rest of the season for Sandringham in the VFL.

Weetra was delisted by Melbourne at the conclusion of the 2008 season.[2]

Post AFL

Weetra returned to the Port Adelaide Magpies in the SANFL for the start of the 2009 season.

References

  1. ^ AFL Record. Round 9, 2008. pg 10
  2. ^ "Demons clearing the decks". Sportal. 4 September 2008. http://sportal.com.au/afl-news-display/demons-clearing-the-decks-56164. Retrieved 29 October 2010. 

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