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Dion Woods Personal information Full name Dion Woods Birth 25 January 1982 Recruited from Perth (WAFL) Draft 2000: 51st overall (Fremantle) Height 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) Weight 84 kg (13 st 3 lb) Playing career Position(s) Defender Club Years Team Pld G 2001–2005 Fremantle 59 7 Dion Woods (born 25 January 1982) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Dockers between 2001 and 2005.
Woods was drafted from Perth in the WAFL as the 51st selection in the 2000 AFL Draft and played mainly as a defender.
Tall and athletic, Woods showed much promise in his first year, winning the Fremantle's Beacon Award in 2001 for the best young player and also being nominated for the AFL Rising Star award. His career peaked in 2003 playing in 21 matches, including Fremantle's first ever finals match, as a key member of the "no-name defence".
However he struggled to maintain his form and spent most of the 2005 season playing for Perth before being delisted at the end of that season. He has since continued to play in the WAFL.
Woods is a cousin of the McGrath family (Ashley, Cory & Toby), all of whom are former or current AFL players.
External links
- Dion Woods's profile on the Official AFL Website of the Fremantle Football Club
- Dion Woods's statistics from AFL Tables
2001 AFL Rising Star nominees Rd 1: Cupido • Rd 2: Harris • Rd 3: Kerr • Rd 4: Lonie • Rd 5: Beetham • Rd 6: Henneman • Rd 7: Begley • Rd 8: Jacobs • Rd 9: Penny • Rd 10: Johnson • Rd 11: McVeigh • Rd 12: Ling • Rd 13: McPhee • Rd 14: Koschitzke • Rd 15: Giansiracusa • Rd 16: Murphy • Rd 17: Guerra • Rd 18: Fiora • Rd 19: Copeland • Rd 20: Enright • Rd 21: Woods • Rd 22: GreeneCategories:- 1982 births
- Fremantle Football Club players
- Perth Football Club players
- Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football
- Living people
- Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
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