Gerald Ugle

Gerald Ugle
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-01-31) 31 January 1993
Original team(s) Beverley Football Club
Height/Weight 180cm / 84kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2012–2013 Greater Western Sydney 3 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 2013 season.

Gerald Ugle[1] (born 31 January 1993) is an Australian rules football player.

Biography

Ugle has several relatives with AFL experience; former West Coast Eagles player Troy Ugle is his great uncle and former Collingwood player Kirk Ugle is his first cousin.[2]

He began attending Guildford Grammar School in Year 9 on an Indigenous scholarship. Playing on the football team, he eventually captained the school football team. He graduated Year 12 in 2010.[2][3]

Playing career

As a 15-year-old he won the reserves best and fairest award for Beverley Football Club in the Avon Football Association despite missing large parts of the season.[4]

Ugle represented Western Australia at 2009 U-16 and 2010 U-18 National Championships.[5] He made his West Australian Football League (WAFL) league debut for Perth in Round 23 of the 2010 season.[6]

He was selected as a 17-year-old by Greater Western Sydney in October 2010.[7]

In July 2012, Ugle made his AFL senior debut against Fremantle, the team he supported as a child.[5][8]

On 4 September 2013, he was delisted by the Giants.[9]

References

  1. Also incorrectly referred to as Gerard Ugle
  2. 1 2 O'Donoghue, Craig (3 December 2010). "Ugle has pedigree to shine with GWS". The West Australian. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  3. "Ugle signs with AFL's Greater Western Sydney Giants". Guildford Grammar School. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  4. "Beverley boy Gerald Ugle joins Greater West Sydney Giants". Beverley Football Club. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Gerald Ugle". Australian Football League. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  6. "Gerald UGLE (Perth)". WAFL Online. West Australian Football Commission. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  7. Michell, Tim (2 December 2010). "GWS Giants snap up three of WA's top talents". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  8. Chadwick, Justin (23 July 2012). "Giants felled by Pavlich's kicking magic". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 July 2012. ...debutants Sam Frost and Gerald Ugle among the goalkickers.
  9. O'hAilpin, Thornton among five Giants delisted

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