Full name David Parkin Name David Parkin Years Team Education Melbourne High School | Years Club Weight 80 kg Height/Weight 180cm / 80kg Role Coach | |
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Date of birth (1942-09-12) 12 September 1942 (age 73) 1961–19741975 VFLHawthornWAFLSubiaco | ||
Original team Melbourne High School | ||
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David Alex Parkin, OAM (born 12 September 1942) is a former Australian rules footballer and four-time premiership coach.
Contents
- Legends series david parkin and john harms
- Carlton Hall of Fame David Parkin
- Pre football career
- Playing career
- Coaching career
- Post coaching career
- Recognition
- References
Carlton Hall of Fame - David Parkin
Pre-football career
He attended Melbourne High School and during his time there, was the school vice-captain and captain of football.
Playing career
Parkin was a tough back-pocket player who played 211 games for the Hawthorn Football Club (and kicked 21 goals) in a career spanning from 1961 to 1974. He won the Best and Fairest award for Hawthorn in 1965, and was captain of the club from 1969–1973, including Hawthorn's 1971 premiership winning side. He represented Victoria 5 times at interstate football.
Coaching career
Parkin went to Western Australia and captain-coached Subiaco in 1975. He was back at Hawthorn as Assistant coach to John Kennedy in 1976. Kennedy retired at the end of 1976 and Parkin was promoted to senior Coach.
Parkin was an innovative coach, first with Hawthorn (1977–1980), becoming only the second person to coach Hawthorn to a premiership in 1978. He coached Carlton in his first stint from 1981–1985, winning back to back premierships in 1981–1982. He coached Fitzroy from 1986–1988 with little success (he actually coached Fitzroy into a preliminary final against Hawthorn in 1986), and then returned to Carlton for another stint between 1991–2000. He was named Carlton's Coach of the Century, and is regarded by Carlton supporters as the club's greatest ever coach, during this second stint he won the 1995 premiership. He also took Carlton to the Grand Final in 1999 which they lost to North Melbourne, at the end of the 2000 season he retired as Carlton coach and handed the coaching reins to Wayne Brittain. Parkin then returned to Hawthorn as director of coaching under coach Peter Schwab.
Post-coaching career
Parkin is currently a media commentator who has appeared on Talking Footy on the Seven Network and is now a panellist Fox Footy's Fox League Teams and a commentator for ABC Radio.
He is a lecturer in Sports and Exercise Science at Deakin University, Melbourne campus. In honour of his significant contribution to Australian society in leadership, sport and education, Deakin University also established the annual David Parkin Oration for Sport and Social Change. He holds a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Australia.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery in March 2009.
Recognition
He received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2013. In 2002 he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2010.