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Full name
Travis Ian Alexander Edmonds
Known as
Travis Edmonds
Born
9 February 1971 (age 53)
Age at first & last AFL game
First game: 24y 57d
Last game: 24y 57d
Height and weight
Height: 192 cm
Weight: 85 kg
Senior clubs
Swan Districts; Fremantle
Jumper numbers
Fremantle: 22
Recruited from
Swan Districts (1995); Fremantle (1996)
Club | League | Career span | Games | Goals | Avg | Win % | AKI | AHB | AMK | BV |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Swan Districts | WAFL | 1990-2005 | 262 | 80 | 0.31 | — | — | — | — | — |
Fremantle | AFL | 1995 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0% | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 0 |
Total | 1990-2005 | 263 | 80 | 0.30 | — | — | — | — | — |
AFL: 10,579th player to appear, 13,018th most games played, 12,769th most goals kickedFremantle: 22nd player to appear, 235th most games played, 222nd most goals kicked
Travis Edmonds retired from the WAFL competition at the end of the 2005 season, bringing down the curtain on a 262-game WAFL career that saw him overcome significant personal disappointment early on to become acknowledged as one of the greatest champions in the club's history.
At the end of his debut season of 1990, the nineteen year old Edmonds came within an ace of being selected for Swans' Grand Final team against Claremont, only to be excluded at the 11th hour. Swans went on to win the game, and Travis Edmonds' only chance of playing in a premiership team had gone. However, over the course of the 15 seasons that followed, he procured virtually every other distinction the game has to offer. A Swan Medallist as the club's fairest and best player on a record (shared with Bill Walker) five occasions, he captained the side in 2000, 2001 and 2002, and represented Western Australia at state league level four times. In 1995 he was included on Fremantle's inaugural AFL list, but played just one game, and while this would almost certainly have been a disappointment to him, one presumes that no-one at Bassendean was complaining.
A hard working, dependable, extremely consistent footballer, Travis Edmonds would almost certainly have been a strong contender for inclusion in Swan Districts' official "Team of the Twentieth Century" had the selection process for that team been undertaken in 2005 rather than five years earlier. Nevertheless, he deserves to be remembered as one of the club's all time favourite sons, as well as serving as a conspicuous recent reminder that notoriety in football is not, as some would maintain, the exclusive preserve of those who ply their trade in the national competition.
Author - John Devaney