Kane Lucas

Kane Lucas

Kane Lucas playing for Western Australia
Personal information
Full nameKane Lucas
Date of birth26 June 1991[1]
Original teamEast Fremantle (WAFL)
Draft#12, 2009 National Draft, Carlton
Height/Weight188cm / 83kg
Position(s)Midfielder / Defender
Club information
Current clubWest Coast
Number47
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2010–2014
2015–
Total		Carlton
West Coast		42 (15)
0 (0)
42 (15)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 2014 season.

Kane Lucas is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.

In his junior years, Lucas played at Trinity College in Western Australia[2] and played most of his club football for Melville Hawks Junior Football Club, with a few years at Winnacott Junior Football Club, before playing Colts and senior football with the East Fremantle Football Club, playing twelve senior games during 2009 as a 17/18 year old. He represented Western Australia in its victorious 2009 AFL National Under 18 Championship campaign, earning a position as half-forward flank in the 2009 AFL Under 18s All Australian team. He nominated for the 2009 AFL National Draft, and was recruited by the Carlton Football Club with its first round selection at number 12 overall.[3]

Lucas made his AFL debut in Round 3, 2010 against Essendon.[4] He was hampered by a hamstring injury throughout his first season, which kept him to only eight games, but he was the winner of the Carlton Best First Year Player award.[5] He struggled with injuries and form in 2011, playing only 2 games; but, in a small part of football history, Lucas was the first player ever to be substituted onto the ground under the AFL's revised interchange rules in Round 1, 2011, replacing the concussed Jarrad Waite in the season's opening match against Richmond.[6]

In 2012, Kane played the first six games of the season, and then only two more after that.

Lucas is the son of Jack Lucas, who played for the Sydney Swans in the 1980s.[3]

Lucas was delisted at the conclusion of the 2014 AFL season.[7]

Lucas was redrafted on the rookie list by the West Coast Eagles for the 2015 season

References

  1. ↑ "Meet the draftees: Kane Lucas". 21 Nov 2009.
  2. ↑ O'Donoghue, Craig (1 October 2011) WA schoolboy stars brace for big stage
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Kane Lucas Blues News".
  4. ↑ The hunt for No. 17
  5. ↑ Carlton Football Club 2010 John Nicholls Medal Official Vote Count, Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  6. ↑ Carlton Football Club, Waite: All Clear, 28 March 2011, Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  7. ↑ "Carlton list changes". Retrieved 21 October 2014.

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