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Greg Whittlesea

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Greg Whittlesea
Personal information
Date of birth (1963-07-23) 23 July 1963 (age 61)
Draft No. 56, 1986 national draft
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1981–1990 Sturt 234 (88)
1991 Hawthorn 004 0(0)
1993–1994 Glenelg 017 0(1)
Total 255 (89)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
South Australia
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Gregory Whittlesea (born 23 July 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL) and with Sturt and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1980s and 1990s.

Whittlesea captained Sturt from 1987 to 1990 and won the Magarey Medal in 1988. He won successive best and fairest awards in 1987 and 1988. At the 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival he represented South Australia and earned All-Australian selection. In 1991 he was recruited by Hawthorn, but managed only four games.

He retired from football in 2004 having played 168 games for Yankalilla in the Great Southern Football League in South Australia.

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