Shaun Rehn

Shaun Rehn
Personal information
Full name	Shaun Jason Rehn
Date of birth	(1971-08-17) 17 August 1971
Place of birth	Arno Bay, South Australia
Original team(s)	West Adelaide (SANFL)
Height/Weight	203 cm (6 ft 8 in) / 106 kg (16 st 10 lb)
Position(s)	Ruck
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1991–2000 2001–2002	Adelaide Hawthorn	134 (55) 033 0(7) 167 (62)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1994, 1998	South Australia	002 0(0)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
2003–2005	West Adelaide (SANFL)	70 (27-43-0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2005 season.
Career highlights
Adelaide Crows Club Champion 1994 Adelaide Crows Premiership player 1997, 1998 All-Australian 1994, 1998 Australian International Rules representative Adelaide Crows Team of the Decade (1991–2000) – Ruck Adelaide Football Club life member 2000 South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee 2006

Shaun Jason Rehn (born 17 August 1971 in Arno Bay, South Australia) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for both the Adelaide Crows and Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL) and West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

AFL career

Rehn started his AFL career in 1991 with the Adelaide Crows in their inaugural year in the Australian Football League. After some eye catching performances for West Adelaide (who were making a late season charge to the SANFL finals), he made his debut for the Crows against Sydney in Round 18 of the 1991 AFL season at Football Park in Adelaide.

At 6'8" (203 cm) he became a leading ruckmen, but suffered three ACL knee injuries overall on both knees which limited his playing ability. The last of those injuries was sustained when his good knee buckled and twisted after running onto a small rubber circle installed in the centre of the turf ground; the circles had been installed onto grounds to assist umpires with centre bounces, but Rehn's injury, and subsequent legal action, saw the circles swiftly removed from all grounds. Rehn's injury kept him on the sidelines for most of the 1996 season after having spent much of the previous season out with the same injury. His knee injuries restricted him to just 6 games in those two seasons, three in each.

Rehn played 134 games and kicked 55 goals for the Crows between 1991 and 2000 and was a member of the Crows 1997 and 1998 premiership teams, before moving to Hawthorn in 2001 in the twilight of his career. He played 33 games and kicked 7 goals with the Hawks between 2001–2002, sharing the ruck work with the 206 cm (6'9") tall Paul Salmon, before retiring from AFL football.

Throughout his whole career at both Adelaide and Hawthorn, Rehn wore the #52 guernsey, and holds the record for the most games wearing that number. Such high numbers are rare in Australian football, as players with numbers higher than 40 usually exchange them for lower numbers early in their careers. Rehn played in jumper #16 when he played for West Adelaide.

Statistics

Season	Team	#	Games	D	K	H	M	T	H/O	G	B	D	K	H	M	T	H/O	G	B
			Totals									Averages (per game)
1991	Adelaide	52	6	77	42	35	32	3	47	3	1	12.8	7.0	5.8	5.3	0.5	7.8	0.5	0.2
1992	Adelaide	52	20	314	131	183	111	13	272	5	0	15.7	6.6	9.2	5.6	0.7	13.6	0.3	0.0
1993	Adelaide	52	17	302	104	198	110	19	253	6	3	17.8	6.1	11.6	6.5	1.1	14.9	0.4	0.2
1994	Adelaide	52	21	390	154	236	149	33	401	5	8	18.6	7.3	11.2	7.1	1.6	19.1	0.2	0.4
1995	Adelaide	52	3	51	25	26	14	2	15	4	3	17.0	8.3	8.7	4.7	0.7	5.0	1.3	1.0
1996	Adelaide	52	3	20	12	8	5	1	19	2	0	6.7	4.0	2.7	1.7	0.3	6.3	0.7	0.0
1997	Adelaide	52	22	265	153	112	93	27	264	11	15	12.0	7.0	5.1	4.2	1.2	12.0	0.5	0.7
1998	Adelaide	52	26	446	270	176	148	38	566	5	11	17.2	10.4	6.8	5.7	1.5	21.8	0.2	0.4
1999	Adelaide	52	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2000	Adelaide	52	16	209	117	92	67	21	189	14	8	13.1	7.3	5.8	4.2	1.3	11.8	0.9	0.5
2001	Hawthorn	52	16	183	114	69	63	17	177	6	4	11.4	7.1	4.3	3.9	1.1	11.1	0.4	0.3
2002	Hawthorn	52	17	151	84	67	40	34	262	1	3	8.9	4.9	3.9	2.4	2.0	15.4	0.1	0.2
Career			167	2408	1206	1202	832	208	2465	62	56	14.4	7.2	7.2	5.0	1.2	14.8	0.4	0.3

Post-playing career

From 2003 to 2005, Rehn was the coach of the West Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL, leading them to the Grand Final in his debut season as coach.

In 2006, Rehn joined the Brisbane Lions as ruck coach where he helped develop Brisbane's young ruck division including Jamie Charman, Cameron Wood and Matthew Leuenberger.

In 2011 Rehn coached South Australia in the 2011 State of Origin Slowdown to a 17.10 (112) to 17.9 (111) victory over Victoria in a charity match at the Adelaide Oval for the Little Heroes Foundation and the Reach Foundation youth charities started by former Melbourne ruckman and 1991 Brownlow Meadallist Jim Stynes.

On 19 October 2011, Port Adelaide announced that Rehn would be an assistant coach at the club.

External links

• Shaun Rehn's statistics from AFL Tables