Chad Wingard

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Chad Wingard
File:Chad Wingard 24 May 2015.png
Wingard warming up before a
game at Adelaide Oval in 2015
Personal information
Full name Chad Jordan Wingard
Date of birth (1993-07-29) 29 July 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Adelaide, Australia
Original team(s) Imperial (RMFL), Sturt (SANFL)
Draft No. 6, 2011 National Draft, Port Adelaide
Height/Weight 181cm / 82kg
Position(s) Midfielder/Forward
Club information
Current club Port Adelaide
Number 20
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2012– Port Adelaide 97 (164)[1]
International team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
2013
2014		 Indigenous All-Stars
Australia		 1 (0)
1 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of Round 10, 2016 season.
2 State and international statistics correct as of 2014.
Career highlights

Chad Jordan Wingard (born 29 July 1993) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted to Port Adelaide with the sixth selection in the 2011 AFL Draft from the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian Football League (SANFL).[2]

Early life

Wingard was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia. His father, Trevor, is part of the Indigenous Australian Kaurna people and his mother is Irish.[3][4][5] At 16 and 60 kg, Wingard was a member of Murray Bridge's 2009 Imperial Football Club league team that won the River Murray Football League premiership.[6] In that game he kicked five goals.[7]

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"He came on 19 minutes into first quarter – kicking five goals, including three of most freakish you’d wish to see”

— Tony Fielke, Imperial Football Club A-grade coach.[8]

AFL career

Wingard made his debut for Port Adelaide in Round 1, 2012 against St Kilda. His breakout game came during Port Adelaide's round 22, 2012 loss to the Brisbane Lions where he received an AFL Rising Star nomination for his 27 disposal, 1 goal and 5 mark performance.

For season 2013, which was only his second season, he averaged 21.3 disposals a game and kicked 43 goals in 2013 and was named in the 2013 All-Australian team, making him the youngest player to make an All-Australian team since Mark Ricciuto in 1994.[9] Wingard's 2013 season also saw him win the Showdown Medal for his five-goal performance in round 19 against the Adelaide Crows where he was described after the match as "Port's most exciting player since Gavin Wanganeen."[10] At season's end, he was rewarded with the John Cahill Medal, making him the youngest player to win a best and fairest at Port Adelaide since Craig Bradley in 1982.

Wingard's 2014 season saw his averages go down from 21 disposals per game to 16 per game, however he still managed to kick 43 goals in total. He won the 2014 Mark of the Year in round 12 by jumping high above Sean Dempster.

Season 2015 is considered Wingard's greatest season to date. He booted a career high 53 goals to be the club's leading goal kicker of the season by kicking multiple goals in every game from rounds 8 to 22 as well as kicking at least one goal in every game until round 23. Wingard also averaged 19.2 disposals a game and was recognised with the All-Australian selection, a stunning achievement for a player having completed just his fourth year at AFL level.[11]

Career statistics

Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team # Games G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
Totals Averages (per game)
2012 Port Adelaide 20 19 9 10 108 129 237 36 46 0.47 0.53 5.68 6.79 12.47 1.89 2.42
2013 Port Adelaide 20 24 43 20 309 200 509 104 47 1.79 0.83 12.88 8.33 21.21 4.33 1.96
2014 Port Adelaide 20 24 43 31 243 147 390 94 74 1.79 1.29 10.13 6.13 16.25 3.92 3.08
2015 Port Adelaide 20 22 53 27 270 152 422 85 67 2.41 1.23 12.27 6.91 19.18 3.86 3.05
Career 89 148 88 930 628 1558 319 234 1.66 0.99 10.45 7.06 17.51 3.58 2.63
Brownlow Medal votes
Season Votes
2012 —
2013 8
2014 6
2015 6
Total 20
Key:
Green / Bold = Won

References

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