Dakota North (speedway rider)

Dakota North
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Date of birth	4 August 1991 (1991-08-04) (age 20)
Place of birth	Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Current club information
British league	Peterborough Panthers
Career history
Mildenhall Fen Tigers Newcastle Diamonds Peterborough Panthers Somerset Rebels	2007 2010 2011- 2011
Individual honours
Australian under-16 Champion	2007
Team honours
Australian Junior Pairs Champion Premier Trophy Premier League Play Offs	2007 2010 2010

Dakota Max "Dak" North (born 4 August 1991) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider.

Biography

North, named by his father - former Stoke Potters rider Rod North - after the Douglas Dakota aircraft, was born in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia in 1991.^[1][2][3] He took up speedway at the age of twelve and won the Australian under-16 championship and the Australian Junior Pairs title (with Justin Sedgmen) in 2007.^[1] After a few appearances in Britain in 2007, he signed with Mildenhall Fen Tigers in 2009 but his season was cut short after chipping two vertebrae in a crash while representing Australia at under-21 level in July against Great Britain.^[1][2] In December 2009 he was signed by Elite League Peterborough Panthers as a club asset and was loaned to Premier League team Newcastle Diamonds for the 2010 season.^[1][4] He signed for Somerset Rebels for the 2011 season, also doubling-up in the Elite League with Panthers.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "2011 Rider Index", speedwaygb.co, retrieved 2011-11-15
2. ^ ^{a b} "Diamonds sign Australian teen Dakota North", ChonicleLive.co.uk, 18 December 2009, retrieved 2011-11-15
3. ^ Heppell, Lawrence (2009) "Dakota jets in to join Diamonds", Newcastle Journal, 18 December 2009, retrieved 2011-11-15
4. ^ "SPEEDWAY: Aussie aces reject a Fen Tigers return", Newmarket Journal, 24 December 2009, retrieved 2011-11-15

Persondata
Name	North, Dakota
Alternative names
Short description	Motorcycle speedway rider
Date of birth	4 August 1991
Place of birth	Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Date of death
Place of death