Mark Merenda

For the American marketing author and entrepreneur, see Mark Charles Merenda.

Mark Merenda
Personal information
Date of birth	(1975-10-29) 29 October 1975
Original team(s)	Osborne Park / West Perth
Debut	Round 12, 13 June 1994, Richmond vs. Collingwood, at the MCG
Height / weight	180 cm / 81 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1994–2000 2001–2002 Total	Richmond West Coast	075 (62) 026 (26) 101 (88)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2002.
Career highlights
Richmond reserves leading goalkicker 1994 Goal of the Year 2001

Mark Merenda (born 29 October 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Merenda began his career with the West Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

Debuting in 1994 with the Richmond Football Club, he was noted as a midfielder or small forward. At the end of the 2000 season, after being out of action at Richmond from Round 2 onwards, he was moved to his home state to play with the West Coast Eagles after 75 games with the Tigers. In 2001 he kicked the Goal of the Year in Round 3 against St Kilda.

Back injuries plagued Merenda throughout his career and he was forced to retire at the end of the 2002 season. He is now involved with coaching at Claremont Football Club.

Mark Merenda is of Siclian descent.^[1]

References

↑ Italian Team of the Century – Player Details

Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996

External links

Mark Merenda's profile on the official website of the West Coast Eagles
Mark Merenda's statistics from AFL Tables

Western Australian team – 1996 State of Origin

Ball Bandy Banfield Clape Connell Cummings Donnelly Hall Hart Jakovich Jones Dale Kickett Derek Kickett Laidley McIntosh McKenna (c) Merenda Mitchell O'Reilly Prior Schofield White

Coach: Glendinning

Western Australian team – 1997 State of Origin

Bandy Bell Burton Callaghan Chick Clement Cook Cummings Gaspar Jakovich Krummel Mann Peter Matera Phillip Matera Merenda McKenna (c) Prior Symmons Toia Treleven Turnbull Winmar

Coach: Glendinning

AFL Goal of the Year

2001: Merenda 2002: Akermanis 2003: Kerr 2004: Wells 2005: Judd 2006: Betts 2007: Lloyd 2008: Davis 2009: Rioli 2010: Franklin 2011: Ballantyne 2012: Yarran 2013: Franklin 2014: White 2015: Betts 2016: Betts

1993 AFL national draft

1. Darren Gaspar
2. Nigel Lappin
3. Justin Murphy
4. Glenn Gorman
5. Adam Heuskes
6. Trent Cummings
7. Chris Johnson
8. Michael Frost
9. Rowan Warfe
10. Trent Ormond-Allen
11. Brad Johnson
12. Chris Scott
13. David Ugrinic
14. Adam Simpson
15. Luke McCabe
16. Fraser Gehrig
17. Angelo Lekkas
18. Simon Beaumont
19. Robert Stevenson
20. Wade Chapman
21. Shane Hodges
22. Dion Myles
23. Shannon Gibson
24. Cameron Bennett
25. Clinton Shaw
26. Stephen Jurica
27. Brad Hall
28. Daryl Griffin
29. Scott Mollard
30. Paul Lewis
31. Mark Stevens
32. Paul Barnard
33. Ben Robbins
34. Stephen Patterson
35. Aaron James
36. Julian Kirzner
37. Ash Thompson
38. David Innella
39. Jason Wild
40. Matthew Lappin
41. Kieran Sporn
42. Michael Prentice
43. Jason Heatley
44. Eugene Warrior
45. Trent Bartlett
46. David King
47. Chris Palmer
48. Matt Hopkins
49. Simon Garlick
50. Mark Merenda
51. Kristian Pascoe
52. Matthew Dent
53. Justin Mallon
54. Sedat Sir
55. Grant Tanner
56. Rayden Tallis
57. Mark Hepburn
58. Jeff Bruce
59. Craig Biddiscombe
60. Troy Polak
61. Shayne Smith
62. Graeme Wood
63. Gareth John
64. Shane Hamilton
65. Paul Mullarvey
66. Andrew Schauble

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