- Jamie Tape
Infobox afl player | firstname = Jamie
lastname = Tape
birthdate = Birth date|1974|4|5|df=y
birthplace =
originalteam =Woodville-West Torrens (SANFL )
heightweight = 188cm / 89kg
dead = dead
deathdate = | deathdate = death date and age|df=yes|2003|1|3|1974|4|5
deathplace =Adelaide
debutdate = Round 1, 26 March 1994
debutteam = Richmond
debutopponent = Footscray
debutstadium = Western Oval
playingteams = Richmond (1994–1997)69 games, 4 goals
Collingwood (1998–1999)
16 games, 1 goal
coach = notcoach
coachingteams =
statsend = 1999
careerhighlights =
*Woodville-West Torrens Premiership team 1993
* Richmond Best First Year Player 1994
*AFL Rising Star Nominee 1994
* South Australia Representative
* Woodville-West Torrens Team of the Decade Half-Back FlankJamie Tape (5 April 1974 - 3 January 2003) was an
Australian rules football er.Football career
After amassing an impressive 75 games and winning the 1993 Premiership with
Woodville-West Torrens in theSANFL , Tape moved to Richmond in 1994 after initially being selected with pick #28 in the1992 AFL Draft . [M. Lovett (ed.), "AFL Record Guide To Season 2007", AFL Publishing, Melbourne, 2006, p. 387. ISBN 978-0-9758362-7-9]Tape enjoyed a highly-promising first three seasons with the Tigers, playing in 67 out of a possible 69 games while being rewarded with an AFL Rising Star nomination and sharing Richmond's best first year player award with fellow South Australian rookie Matthew Rogers, as well as State of Origin representation. However Tape began struggling with injury in following years, so much so that he managed just 8 more games for Richmond before being traded to Collingwood with teammate Bradley J. Smith in exchange for the Magpies'
Aaron James and pick #71 in the1997 AFL Draft . [M. Lovett (ed.), "AFL Record Guide To Season 2007", p. 388]His AFL career ended in 1999 following a further 16 games with Collingwood, after which he returned to the SANFL with Woodville-West Torrens.
Battle with illness and death
After having only just overcome a 10-month battle with
Hodgkin's Lymphoma , Tape died soon after a suspectedbrain aneurysm [Quayle, E. 'Jamie Tape: unassuming achiever who always looked forward', "The Age", 10 January 2003,] while at the wheel of his car not far from his home on the evening of 3 January 2003. [Catalano, C. & Evans, C. [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/05/1041566310744.html 'Ex-Tiger Tape dies after car accident'] , 6 January 2003, "The Age". Accessed 2 February 2008.]References
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External links
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