Shane Crothers

Shane Crothers
Personal information
Full name	Shane Crothers
Date of birth	(1973-07-02) 2 July 1973
Original team(s)	Grovedale
Draft	34th overall, 1993 Pre-Season Draft
Height/Weight	198 cm / 97 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1994–95	Geelong	4 (0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1995 season.
Career highlights
Port Adelaide (SANFL) Premiership Player (1996)

Shane Crothers (born 2 July 1973) is an Australian basketball player and former Australian rules footballer. He played with the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), Port Adelaide in the SANFL and Geelong Supercats in the National Basketball League (NBL).

Crothers was drafted to the Geelong Football Club, from Grovedale, with the 113th pick of the 1989 VFL Draft. Unable to break into the team, Crothers went on to join the Geelong Supercats and made his NBL debut in 1991, playing in a side which included a young Shane Heal. He also played NBL in 1992^[1] but left the following year when he was again drafted to the AFL, previously VFL.

His AFL career consisted of just four games but he was a part of a strong team which made and lost the Grand Final in both seasons he was at the club, 1994 and 1995. Playing as a ruckman, he had seven hit-outs and seven disposals on his league debut, against North Melbourne late in the 1994 AFL season. He played again the following round in a win over Fitzroy but didn't participate in the finals. His appearances in 1995 were limited to games against Collingwood and Richmond, the latter at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.^[2]

Crothers had become the second person, after Michael Parsons, to compete in both leagues.

After leaving the Cats, Crothers joined the Port Adelaide Football Club in 1996 and was named on the interchange bench in the Magpies' premiership win over Central District.

He also returned to basketball and competed with the West Adelaide Bearcats in the Central Australian Basketball League.

References

↑ "National Basketball League – Player Directory" (PDF). NBL.com.au.
↑ "Shane Crothers". AFL Tables.

1989 VFL national draft

First round	1. Anthony Banik 2. Matthew Croft 3. Jody Arnol 4. Peter Matera 5. Brad Rowe 6. Mark Brayshaw 7. Stephen Edgar 8. Brad Tunbridge 9. Dale Kickett 10. Daryl Groves 11. Darren Smith 12. Gavin Wanganeen 13. Allister Scott 14. Ben Allan

Second round	15. Nathan Bower 16. Jason Shields 17. Gilbert McAdam 18. Robert Wren 19. Ashley Green 20. Brett Hawkey 21. Peter Doyle 22. Mathew Hanrahan 23. Roger Delaney 24. Mathew Styles 25. Paul Rouvray 26. Alister Carr 27. Joel Saunders 28. Jason Gibson

Third round	29. Wayne Campbell 30. Glenn Coleman 31. Darel Hart 32. Shaun Slater 33. Shaun Hart 34. Andrew Venner 35. Chris Bond 36. Rohan Smith 37. Shayne Stevenson 38. Gavin Rose 39. Peter Cransberg 40. Travis St Clair 41. Chris Waterworth 42. Matthew Robran 43. Chris Guerts 44. Jonathan Solomon 45. Sasha Dyson-Holland 46. Shane Radbone

Fourth round	47. Richard Gerke 48. Dennis Rapacholi 49. Greg Jones 50. Dean Irving 51. Joe Wilson 52. Rod Jameson 53. Derek Coghlan 54. Steven Bozicevic 55. Grant Coffee 56. Shayne Bennett 57. Tim Moreland 58. Jason Dullard 59. Daniel Frawley 60. Chris Sharp

Fifth round	61. Simon Eastaugh 62. John Brunner 63. Wayne Thornborrow 64. Tony Evans 65. Alan Schwartz 66. Shannon Bergmann 67. Ben Judd 68. Scott Tomlinson 69. Jamie Elliott 70. Paul Williams 71. Glenn Wilkins 72. Glenn Crawford 73. Tim Birthisel 74. Alistair Burke

Sixth round	75. Stephen Pearce 76. Shayne Ward 77. Christian Lister 78. Stephen Schwerdt 79. David Brown 80. Damien Murray 81. Sam Gross 82. Troy Lehmann 83. Mark Robinson 84. Matthew Kelly 85. Anthony Tohill 86. Gerrard Harrington 87. Ashley Coutts 88. Tim Leng

Seventh round	89. Jason Smith 90. Ben Cross 91. Grant Lawrie 92. Brett Heady 93. Tony Paynter 94. John Bingham 95. Jeremy Smith 96. Gary Stevens 97. Paul McConville 98. Kym Russell 99. Nick Tsiotanis 100. David Pittman 101. Richard Harrison 102. Dion Sheehan

Eighth round	103. Brett Chalmers 104. Tony Trigg 105. Stuart Annand 106. Ernie Hug 107. Sean Valenta 108. Eric Lissenden 109. Colin Corkery 110. Craig Budarick 111. David Noble 112. Ashley McIntosh 113. Shane Crothers 114. Jason Walscgott 115. Colum McManamon 116. Brendan Bicknall

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