Full name Adam Kingsley Weight 83 kg Name Adam Kingsley | Height/Weight 183 cm / 83 kg | |
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Draft 37th overall, 1996 AFL DraftPort Adelaide Date of birth 20 August 1975 (age 46), Victoria, Australia Similar Craig McRae, Scott Burns (footballer), Adem Yze | ||
Team selection: Round 8
Adam Kingsley (born 20 August 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently an assistant coach at the St Kilda Football Club, serving as the club's midfield coach.
Contents
- Team selection Round 8
- Team selection Round 16
- Early career
- Later career
- Port Adelaide
- St Kilda
- Media work
- References
Team selection: Round 16
Early career
Originally from Eastern Ranges, he was playing for the Essendon Football Club's reserves team, before being recruited by Port Adelaide. Debuting in the Port Adelaide Football Club's inaugural 1997 AFL side, Kingsley was known as a consistent defender/midfielder.
Later career
He struggled in 2003, coming close to being delisted, but improved his form and cemented a spot during 2004, being a premiership player that year after working his way back into the side.
2005 saw another consistent season from Kingsley, however, he played just five games in 2006, which cast doubts over his career. In his fifth game in Round 22, he injured his anterior cruciate ligament, which forced his retirement. He said in The Age on 12 September 2006, that he had hoped to continue playing in 2007 before the injury.
Port Adelaide
In 2007, he became an assissant coach at Port Adelaide, a position in which he stayed in until the end of 2010.
St Kilda
Kingsley joined St Kilda at the end of the 2010 season as an assistant coach.
Media work
In March 2006, Kingsley won Australia's Brainiest Footballer, a Network Ten quiz show special. He donated the $20,000 that he won to the McGuinness-McDermott Foundation (run by former Adelaide footballers Tony McGuinness and Chris McDermott).