Nick Hider Explained

Nick Hider
Fullname:Nicholas Hider
Birth Date:31 August 1971
Originalteam:Camperdown
Draftpick:24th, 1995 Pre-Season Draft
Height:174 cm
Weight:72 kg
Statsend:1995
Years1:1995
Club1:Collingwood
Games Goals1:2 (1)

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Holmesby. Russell. Main. Jim. The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. 2007. 978-1-920910-78-5.
  2. Book: Lovett, Michael. AFL 2004 - The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. 2004. 0-9580300-5-7.
  3. Web site: AFL Tables: Nick Hider . afltables.com.
  4. Pakenham Gazette,"Hider wins best and fairest", 19 September 2007, Ken Moore
  5. http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2011/09/14/381221_country-footy.html Country footy