Full name Nathan Drummond Name Nathan Drummond Height/Weight 182 cm / 86 kg Date joined 2015 | Current club Richmond Number 39 | |
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Date of birth (1995-01-19) 19 January 1995 (age 20) Draft 52nd overall, 2014 national draft Role Australian rules football player Profiles | ||
Debut to despair - AFL
Nathan Drummond (born 19 January 1995) is an Australian rules footballer who represents Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Contents
- Debut to despair AFL
- Drummonds Determination
- Early life and junior football
- AFL career
- Personal life
- Statistics
- References
Drummond's Determination
Early life and junior football
Drummond grew up in Mooroopna, a Victorian country town 181 kilometers north of Melbourne. He played junior football with the local Mooroopna Football Netball Club.
Drummond moved to Melbourne as a teenager to board at Melbourne Grammar on one of the school's Indigenous scholarships.
In 2013, Drummond played part time with the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup. He also played for the Victorian Country side that year, representing the team at 2013 National Championships.
Despite strong form in his underage years, Drummond passed unselected through the 2013 national and rookie drafts.
In 2014, he returned to the family home in country Victoria, taking up a part-time job at a sports store and playing again for the Bushrangers. Drummond ultimately won the club's best and fairest award for his performances that season. In addition, he played three matches with the Richmond Football Club's VFL side that year.
Drummond impressed at the 2014 draft combine, recording top three results in the repeat sprint, beep test, standing vertical jump, goalkicking and clean hands tests.
AFL career
Drummond was drafted by Richmond with the club's third pick and pick 52 overall in the 2014 AFL draft.
He made his debut in round 4, 2015 against the Melbourne Football Club. He was stretchered from the ground during the second quarter however, after injuring his right knee in a marking contest. The subsequent diagnosis of a severe anterior cruciate ligament injury resulted in a season ending operation.
Drummond made his return to senior football in Round 18, 2016. He kicked his first career goal in the match, as well as recording 10 disposals. He was dropped from senior side following four consecutive matches and would play out the season in the club's reserves side in the VFL. Drummond finished the season with averages of 9.8 disposals and 4.5 tackles per game.
In April 2017 Drummond suffered an injury to his knee while playing with Richmond's reserves side in the VFL. Subsequent scans revealed he had torn his anterior cruciate ligament again, though this time on his left knee. The injury would effectively rule him out of playing AFL football in 2017.
Personal life
Drummond is of Indigenous Australian heritage.
He is the great-grandson of Tom Drummond, who played in two premierships for Collingwood and captained the club, and the great-great grandson of William Cooper, an Australian Aboriginal political activist and community leader.