Marty Pask

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Marty Pask
Personal information
Full name	Martin Pask
Date of birth	(1985-01-02) 2 January 1985
Original team	Western Magpies
Height/Weight	191 cm / 97 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2006	Brisbane Lions	8 (4)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2006 season.

Martin "Marty" Pask (born 2 January 1985) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League for the Brisbane Lions. After his AFL career finished he played in the Victorian Football League with the Werribee Tigers.

Pask also played representative football; four times representing QLD, twice representing Victoria (1 VAFA & 1 VFL) and once with the Allies state of origin side.

Marty Pask is now an AFL accredited player agent handling the careers of many of the games talented AFL footballers and some Australia's brightest sporting starts.

Pask is also a regular media performer with the ABC as a commentator during the AFL home and away season.

Sports agent

Pask is now an accomplished AFL Accredited Agent handling the careers of some bright young footballing prospects. Most notably Pask manages AFL Players; Michael Barlow (Fremantle), Brian Lake (Hawthorn), Nathan Vardy (Geelong), Dion Prestia (Gold Coast), Jason Winderlich (Essendon), Clay Smith (Western Bulldogs), Brandon Ellis (Richmond) and Dyson Heppell (Essendon).

Other athletes include Emily Seebohm who is an Olympic World Recorder holder in the 100m backstroke.

AFLQ career

Pask began his career at the Western Magpies and in 2004 won the National Australia Bank AFLQ Rising Star Award as well as finishing runner-up in the Western Magpies Best and Fairest.^[1] Following this season Pask was selected by the Brisbane Lions in the National Draft.

Brisbane Lions

Pask was into his second year on the Lions' list before he was elevated to the Brisbane Lions Senior team in May 2006.^[2] Pask played eight senior games for the Brisbane Lions before subcuming to injury which saw him derail his momentum. Pask then struggled to find pace and consistency after tearing his hamstring and re injuring it several times again.

Western Bulldogs

He was selected by the Western Bulldogs in September 2007 hoping to a change of environment would fix his injury concerns. Pask was released from his contract after playing a full season with the Bulldogs affiliate the Werribee Tigers, without making his AFL debut for the Bulldogs.

VFL career

Pask played four seasons in the Victorian Football League with Werribee. His best season was 2007 when he finished third in their 2007 Best and Fairest award. That year Pask also polled well in the Liston Medal earning the most amount of votes for the Tigers, finishing equal 12th.^[3]

VAFA career

After Pask was released from the Western Bulldogs, Pask joined VAFA club University Blacks after rejecting offers from AFLQ, SANFL and VFL clubs. Pask represented the VAFA Victorian side and finished with 44 goals in 10 games of football.

EDFL career

Pask retired from semi-professional football in 2010. Upon his decision to leave the Werribee Tigers he decided to sign with Keilor Football Club for the 2011 season.

References

External links

Marty Pask's statistics from AFL Tables

2007 AFL Rookie Draft

1. Sam Jacobs
2. Dean Dick
3. Leigh Adams
4. Anthony Corrie
5. Alex Lee
6. Brett Collins
7. Joel Reynolds
8. Tasman Clingan
9. Clinton Jones
10. Sharrod Wellingham
11. Gavin Hughes
12. Daniel Hayes
13. Chris Smith
14. Andrew McIntyre
15. Nick Smith
16. Jamie McNamara
17. Michael Jamison
18. Danny Chartres
19. Ben Hughes
20. Scott Clouston
21. Gavin Grose
22. Matt Suckling
23. Liam Bedford
24. Jake King
25. Luke van Rheenen
26. Brent Macaffer
27. Jarrod Harbrow
28. Andrew Foster
29. James Turner
30. Matthew O'Dwyer
31. Llane Spaanderman
32. Ross Young
33. Adam Ramanauskas
34. Matt Campbell
35. Daniel Dzufer
36. Nathan Batsanis
37. Sam Gibson
38. Jason Davenport
39. Robert Eddy
40. Martin Clarke
41. Marty Pask
42. Darren Rumble
43. Rhys Archard
44. Luke Brennan
45. Chad Jones
47. Tim Hutchison
48. Haydyn Kiel
49. Peter Hardy
50. Tom Lonergan
51. James Wall
52. Michael West
53. Benet Copping
54. Greg Gallman
55. Matthew Davis
56. Ben Sharp
57. Joel Tippett
58. Jarryn Geary
59. Earl Shaw
60. Ashley Thornton
61. Will Hamill
62. Jayden Attard
64. Beau Wilkes

Persondata
Name	Pask, Marty
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	2 January 1985
Place of birth
Date of death
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