Jamie Tape

Jamie Tape
Personal information
Date of birth5 April 1974
Date of death3 January 2003 (aged 28)
Place of deathAdelaide, South Australia
Original teamWoodville-West Torrens (SANFL)
DebutRound 1, 26 March 1994, Richmond
v. Footscray, at Western Oval
Height/Weight188cm / 89kg
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1994–1997
1998–1999
Total		Richmond
Collingwood		75 (4)
16 (1)
91 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1999 season.
Career highlights
  • Woodville-West Torrens Premiership team 1993
  • Richmond Best First Year Player 1994
  • AFL Rising Star Nominee 1994
  • South Australia Representative
  • Woodville-West Torrens Team of the Decade Half-Back Flank

Jamie Tape (5 April 1974 - 3 January 2003) was an Australian rules footballer.

Football career

After amassing 75 games and winning the 1993 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Premiership with Woodville-West Torrens Football Club, Tape moved to Australian Football League (AFL) club Richmond in 1994 after initially being selected with pick #28 in the 1992 AFL Draft.[1]

Tape enjoyed a highly-promising first three seasons with the Tigers, playing in 67 out of a possible 69 games and rewarded with an AFL Rising Star nomination. He shared Richmond's best first year player award with fellow South Australian rookie Matthew Rogers, as well as State of Origin representation. However Tape began struggling with injury in following years, so much so that he managed just eight more games for Richmond before being traded to Collingwood with teammate Bradley J. Smith in exchange for the Magpies' Aaron James and pick #71 in the 1997 AFL Draft.[2]

Tape' AFL career ended in 1999 following 16 games with Collingwood, after which he returned to the SANFL with Woodville-West Torrens.

Battle with illness and death

After having only just overcome a 10-month battle with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Tape died soon after a suspected brain aneurysm[3] while at the wheel of his car not far from his home on the evening of 3 January 2003.[4]

References

Notes
  1. ↑ M. Lovett (ed.), AFL Record Guide To Season 2007, AFL Publishing, Melbourne, 2006, p. 387. ISBN 978-0-9758362-7-9
  2. ↑ M. Lovett (ed.), AFL Record Guide To Season 2007, p. 388
  3. ↑ Quayle, E. 'Jamie Tape: unassuming achiever who always looked forward', The Age, 10 January 2003,
  4. ↑ Catalano, C. & Evans, C. 'Ex-Tiger Tape dies after car accident', 6 January 2003, The Age. Accessed 2 February 2008.

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