| Dean Kemp | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Dean Phillip Kemp | ||
| Born | (1969-02-17)17 February 1969 (age 56) Kalgoorlie, Western Australia | ||
| Original teams | Railways Football Club,Subiaco (WAFL) | ||
| Debut | Round 1, 1990,West Coast vs.Collingwood, at Subiaco | ||
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1989-1991 | Subiaco | 22 (9) | |
| 1990–2001 | West Coast Eagles | 243 (117) | |
| Total | 265 (126) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2001. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Dean Phillip Kemp (born 17 February 1969 inKalgoorlie,Western Australia) is a formerAustralian rules footballer who played for theWest Coast Eagles in theAustralian Football League.
Recruited fromSubiaco in theWestern Australian Football League, Kemp made his AFL debut in Round 1 of the1990 AFL season in a 46-point win atSubiaco Oval against eventual premiersCollingwood. He played 23 games (including all four finals) and won West Coast's Rookie of the Year Award.
In 1992 he played in West Coast's Premiership team and earnedAll-Australian selection as well as West Coast'sbest and fairest award. In 1994 he played in the side's second premiership team and won theNorm Smith Medal for best on ground.
He was selected in the 1996 Team of the Decade and the 2006Team 20 for the Eagles.[1] In 2001 he was made co-captain withBen Cousins, but retired later that season. Kemp suffered numerous concussions during his career, including one resulting from a savage hit fromMark Ricciuto, and his career was ultimately shortened somewhat by the effects of these numerous concussions.
Kemp was an outstanding midfielder who surprisingly never polled well in theBrownlow Medal count, polling only 53 career votes, with a season best of 13 in2000. A reason put forward for this is that Kemp was not a flashy ball carrier type player. Rather, on gaining possession of the ball, would quickly and effectively dispose of it to a teammate.
He was also particularly good playing in the wet, rarely fumbling the greasy ball. He enjoyed a successful career after he was drafted at number 117 in the 1989 draft. The lateness of his selection in the draft is frequently highlighted to argue that late draft picks can still prove themselves to be star players.
Kemp was inducted into theAustralian Football Hall of Fame in 2007[2] and theWestern Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.[3]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks | ||
# | Played in that season's premiership team |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 1990 | West Coast | 33 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 262 | 179 | 441 | 75 | 46 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 11.4 | 7.8 | 19.2 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 0 |
| 1991 | West Coast | 2 | 23 | 12 | 9 | 259 | 170 | 429 | 61 | 46 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 11.3 | 7.4 | 18.7 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 3 |
| 1992# | West Coast | 2 | 25 | 14 | 12 | 380 | 163 | 543 | 70 | 74 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 15.2 | 6.5 | 21.7 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 7 |
| 1993 | West Coast | 2 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 248 | 108 | 356 | 56 | 63 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 14.6 | 6.4 | 20.9 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 0 |
| 1994# | West Coast | 2 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 304 | 163 | 467 | 80 | 44 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 13.8 | 7.4 | 21.2 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 5 |
| 1995 | West Coast | 2 | 23 | 16 | 10 | 267 | 196 | 463 | 74 | 69 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 11.6 | 8.5 | 20.1 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3 |
| 1996 | West Coast | 2 | 21 | 12 | 12 | 274 | 168 | 442 | 73 | 70 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 13.0 | 8.0 | 21.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 8 |
| 1997 | West Coast | 2 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 296 | 192 | 488 | 69 | 63 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 13.5 | 8.7 | 22.2 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 7 |
| 1998 | West Coast | 2 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 200 | 142 | 342 | 40 | 40 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 11.8 | 8.4 | 20.1 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 5 |
| 1999 | West Coast | 2 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 235 | 120 | 355 | 72 | 50 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 10.7 | 5.5 | 16.1 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 2000 | West Coast | 2 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 297 | 188 | 485 | 78 | 56 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 14.9 | 9.4 | 24.3 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 13 |
| 2001 | West Coast | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 60 | 30 | 90 | 15 | 9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 7.5 | 3.8 | 11.3 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0 |
| Career | 243 | 117 | 91 | 3082 | 1819 | 4901 | 763 | 630 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 12.7 | 7.5 | 20.2 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 53 | ||
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