Nick Hider

Nick Hider
Personal information
Full name Nicholas Hider
Date of birth (1971-08-31) 31 August 1971 (age 53)
Original team(s) Camperdown
Draft 24th, 1995 Pre-Season Draft
Height 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1995 Collingwood 2 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1995.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Nicholas Hider (born 31 August 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Hider came to Collingwood from Camperdown, through the 1995 Pre-Season Draft.[1][2] He appeared in the opening two rounds of the 1995 AFL season but didn't play any more senior games.[3]

He won his second Maskell Medal in 2003 while with Warrnambool, having also won the Hampden Football League "Best and Fairest" award back in 1994, for Camperdown.

In 2007, at the age of 36, he played with Maffra and won the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League's top award, the Trood Award-Rodda Medal.[4]

Since 2009 he has been the coach of the Sale City Football Club that plays in the North Gippsland Football League.[5]

References

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.
  2. ^ Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 - The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN 0-9580300-5-7.
  3. ^ "AFL Tables: Nick Hider". afltables.com.
  4. ^ Pakenham Gazette,"Hider wins best and fairest", 19 September 2007, Ken Moore
  5. ^ Country footyweeklytimesnow.com.au 14 September 2011 Archived 10 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine