Kent Butcher

Kent Butcher
Personal information
Full name	Kent Butcher
Date of birth	5 November 1973
Original team(s)	Grovedale/Geelong
Draft	45th, 1993 Pre-Season Draft
Height/Weight	180 cm / 82 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1993–1995 1996	Collingwood Sydney Swans	22 (3) 0 (0)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1996 season.
Career highlights
Harry Collier Trophy 1993 1994 AFL Rising Star nominee

Kent Butcher (born 5 November 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Butcher played both under-19s and reserves football for Geelong, but it was at Collingwood that he started his AFL career. In round eight of the 1994 season, the rebounding defender would receive a Rising Star nomination for his 20 disposal game against St Kilda on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.^[1]

An injury brought an end to his time at Collingwood and he was delisted, and was picked up by the Sydney Swans with the seventh selection of the 1996 Pre-season Draft.^[2] He didn't play a senior AFL game for the Swans.^[1]

Butcher, a former Grovedale player, would move back to Geelong, where he played and coached.^[3]

References

1. AFL Tables: Kent Butcher
2. Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 – The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN 0-9580300-5-7.
3. Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.