Jared Rivers

Jared Rivers (born 18 October 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Jared Rivers
Rivers with Melbourne in 2009
Personal information
Full name Jared Rivers
Date of birth (1984-10-18) 18 October 1984
Original team(s) North Adelaide (SANFL)
Draft #26, 2002 National draft, Melbourne
Height 192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 92 kg (203 lb)
Position(s) Defender
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2003–2012 Melbourne 150 (18)
2013–2015 Geelong 044 0(0)
Total 194 (18)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2015.
Career highlights

1 x Spencer Gulf Football League Premiership Player 2000

Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Junior career

As a child Rivers supported the Sydney Swans, and cites Tony Lockett and Paul Kelly as his childhood heroes. He attended Caritas College until Year 10 and Sacred Heart College Senior, Adelaide afterwards.

He played junior football for the South Augusta Bulldogs Football club. He won a premiership with the club in 2000 at the age of 15, playing in the Spencer Gulf League. He was spotted by North Adelaide Football Club and began playing seniors under coach Darel Hart.

He was considered as a potential top ten draft pick, and was selected to play for South Australia's Under 18 team in the National competition. He injured his wrist in the lead up to this match, but scouts from the Melbourne Demons nonetheless selected him as the 27th pick overall in the 2002 AFL draft.

Senior career

Melbourne
Rivers with Melbourne in 2007

Rivers played three games in his debut season, but was praised for his job on Port Adelaide's Warren Tredrea in his second match.

After a good performance in the preseason, Rivers won a place in the first team, and was subsequently nominated for Round 3 of National Bank Rising Star in 2004. He continued his good form throughout the season right until the Demons' loss to Essendon in the Elimination Final. In the week leading up to the Final, he was awarded the 2004 Rising Star award, chosen unanimously by the nine judges.

His season in 2005 was less successful, with poor form and injury culminating in him being dropped to the Sandringham team towards the end of the season. He was also suspended for two matches after striking Hawthorn's Ben Dixon.

Rivers returned to form the following season, becoming the premier defender of Melbourne Football Club, and playing his 50th career game against Port Adelaide at the MCG in Round 13.

Rivers is considered a master of the one percenter. He was able to move forward on many occasions in the 2006 season, including the Queens Birthday Match when he kicked his first two goals in AFL football.

Rivers was injured at the beginning of the 2007 season, and had little time on the field, suffering from a potentially season-threatening groin injury.

In 2008 Rivers was injured again, with a torn abdominal against the Magpies in the annual Queens Birthday match.

Geelong

On 18 October 2012, Rivers, an unrestricted free agent under the AFL's new free agency system, signed a 2-year contract with the Geelong Football Club.[1] In August 2015, he announced his retirement from the AFL due to chronic knee problems.[2]

Post football career

Two months after his retirement, Rivers joined Collingwood's coaching staff as a development coach, replacing Craig McRae as part of a coaching restructure.[3]

A year after joining Collingwood's coaching staff, Rivers was appointed coach of the VFL team, after Dale Tapping left to take up a role as an assistant coach with the Brisbane Lions.[4][5][6] Rivers coached the VFL team until the end of the 2019 season.

in August 2020, Rivers joined Collegians Football Club in the VAFA as their head coach.[7]

Statistics
[8]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2003 Melbourne 27300415280.00.01.30.31.70.72.7
2004 Melbourne 272200130129259109490.00.05.95.911.85.02.2
2005 Melbourne 271400986616479230.00.07.04.711.75.61.6
2006 Melbourne 272244166129295118580.20.27.55.913.45.42.6
2007 Melbourne 273001722391680.00.05.77.313.05.32.7
2008 Melbourne 276012838662390.00.24.76.311.03.81.5
2009 Melbourne 27200011310822186630.00.05.75.411.14.33.2
2010 Melbourne 27180114294236106440.00.17.95.213.15.92.4
2011 Melbourne 27201113014327388510.10.16.57.213.74.42.6
2012 Melbourne 27221310171111282109410.60.57.85.012.85.01.9
2013 Geelong 251002505310326240.00.25.05.310.32.62.4
2014 Geelong 252201157128285125470.00.07.15.813.05.72.1
2015 Geelong 251200996616577250.00.08.35.513.86.42.1
Career 194 18 20 1305 1088 2393 964 450 0.1 0.1 6.7 5.6 12.3 5.0 2.3

References
  1. Ryan, Peter. "Rivers flows to Geelong". afl.com.au. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  2. Laughton, Max (24 August 2015). "Jared Rivers forced to retire due to chronic knee problems after 194 games for Geelong and Melbourne". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  3. Allen, Sarah (15 October 2015). "Former Cat joins Magpies". collingwoodfc.com.au. BigPond. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  4. "Rivers to lead VFL Magpies". collingwoodfc.com.au. BigPond. 3 November 2016.
  5. "Former Demon Named As Collingwood's VFL Coach". Triple M. 3 November 2016.
  6. Amy, Paul (24 October 2016). "Collingwood VFL coach Dale Tapping has joined the Brisbane Lions". Melbourne Leader.
  7. "VAFA: Jared Rivers to coach Collegians". Herald Sun. 24 August 2020.
  8. "Jared Rivers". AFL Tables. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
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