| Grant Wilmot | |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1956 |
| Height: | 182 cm |
| Weight: | 76 kg |
| Originalteam: | Montmorency |
| Club1: | Preston |
| Years1: | 1977–1979 |
| Games Goals1: | 38 |
| Club2: | Collingwood |
| Years2: | 1980 |
| Games Goals2: | 5 (5) |
| Statsend: | 1980 |
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Grant Wilmot (15 October 1956 – 4 July 2016)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]
Wilmot played his junior football at Diamond Valley Football League club Montmorency and broke into their seniors in 1974.[3] He was a member of Montmorency's 1976 premiership team.[3]
From 1977 to 1979, Wilmot played for Preston in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).[3] He played in the 1978 VFA Grand Final, which Preston lost to Prahran.[3] Wilmot, who had previously fought a professional boxing bout as a middleweight in 1976, received a six-week suspension for his actions during the game.[3] [4]
He made five senior appearances for Collingwood in the 1980 VFL season.[5] His best performance, which earned him three Brownlow Medal votes, came in a win over St Kilda at Victoria Park, where he had 20 disposals and kicked four goals.[6]
Injuries brought an early end to his VFL career and he spent the rest of his playing career at Montmorency, Heidelberg West and Eltham.[3] While at Heidelberg West in 1982, Wilmot finished second, to Wayne Headlam, in the Frank Smith Medal.[3]
Wilmot started his coaching career in his one-season stint at Eltham, where he was both a player and assistant coach.[3] Eltham defeated Epping in the Division 2 Grand Final that year.[3] In 1990 and 1991 he was senior coach of Croydon, then head coach at Heidelberg for next two years.[3] He coached Eltham to a premiership in 1995 and returned to Montmorency as an assistant coach the following year.[3] In 1997 he was senior coach of Montmorency.[3]