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Sam Powell-Pepper
Powell-Pepper playing for Port Adelaide in June 2017
Personal information
Full name Samuel Powell-Pepper
Date of birth (1998-01-08) 8 January 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Western Australia
Original team(s) East Perth (WAFL)/Wesley College (PSA)
Draft No. 18, 2016 national draft
Debut Round 1, 2017, Sydney vs. Port Adelaide, at Sydney Cricket Ground
Height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 96 kg (212 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder / forward
Club information
Current club Port Adelaide
Number 2
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2017– Port Adelaide 142 (106)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2024.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Samuel Powell-Pepper (born 8 January 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early life

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Powell-Pepper was born in Perth, the son of Maureen and Steven. His mother is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and his father is caucasian.[1][2][3] He has two full siblings and two half-brothers. His parents separated when he was young and he lived with his father until he was eight, then spent periods with his paternal grandmother, his mother, and friends' families.[4]

Powell-Pepper initially attended Mount Lawley Senior High School as an inaugural member of the school’s Aboriginal Excellence Program, before switching to Wesley College on an indigenous scholarship.[5] He went to school with Quinton Narkle who is his second cousin. He also attended school with other future AFL players Shai Bolton and Cameron Zurhaar.[6] He played junior football for the Mt Hawthorn Cardinals.[7]

In 2016, Powell-Pepper made his senior debut for the East Perth Football Club during round 20 of the 2016 WAFL season going on to play all the remaining games for the year.[8]

AFL career

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Powell-Pepper was drafted by the Port Adelaide Football Club with their second selection and eighteenth overall in the 2016 national draft. He made his AFL debut in Port Adelaide's twenty-eight point win against Sydney in the opening round of the 2017 season at the Sydney Cricket Ground.[9] He was named that round's AFL Rising Star nominee after kicking two goals in the match, the first with his first kick in AFL football.[10] In a game against Melbourne, he recorded 17 tackles, beating the club's previous record which was 16.

Statistics

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Statistics are correct to the end of round 24, 2023[11]
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
2017 Port Adelaide 2 22 16 14 182 193 375 57 114 0.7 0.6 8.3 8.8 17.0 2.6 5.2
2018
 Port Adelaide 2 16 5 13 137 168 305 36 97 0.3 0.8 8.6 10.5 19.1 2.2 6.1
2019 Port Adelaide 2 19 10 18 187 171 358 50 92 0.5 0.9 9.8 9.0 18.8 2.6 4.8
2020[a] Port Adelaide 2 19 7 12 123 157 280 36 77 0.4 0.6 6.5 8.7 14.7 1.9 4.0
2021
 Port Adelaide 2 16 10 8 115 104 219 39 61 0.6 0.5 7.2 6.5 13.7 2.4 3.8
2022
 Port Adelaide 2 22 24 22 216 149 365 104 74 1.1 1.0 9.0 6.6 16.6 4.7 3.4
2023
 Port Adelaide 2 23 29 26 184 131 315 60 75 1.2 1.1 8.0 5.7 13.7 2.6 3.3
Career 137 101 113 1144 1071 2215 382 590 0.7 0.8 8.4 7.8 16.2 2.8 4.3

Notes

  1. ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

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  1. ^ Sam Powell-Pepper pays tribute to former teammate’s family after Round 1 Rising Star nomination
  2. ^ Resilience the driving force behind Sam Powell-Pepper's draft bid
  3. ^ Tomorrow's heroes: Sam Powell-Pepper, big-bodied mid ready for AFL
  4. ^ Rising Port Adelaide star Sam Powell-Pepper picks up from broken past
  5. ^ Homfray, Reece (28 November 2016). "New recruit Sam Powell-Pepper's power nothing to sneeze at". The Advertiser. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  6. ^ O'Reilly, Jacob (1 November 2016). "Wesley College sends four to AFL Draft Combine". Western Independent. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  7. ^ Resilience the driving force behind Sam Powell-Pepper's draft bid
  8. ^ "WAFL - West Australian Football League". www.wafl.com.au. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  9. ^ Laughton, Max (25 March 2017). "What we learned: Port Adelaide defeats Sydney Swans in Round 1 as Sam Powell-Pepper makes terrific debut". Fox Sports (Australia). News Corp Australia. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  10. ^ Twomey, Callum (27 March 2017). "Powerful Port mid's instant impact earns Rising Star nod". AFL.com.au. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  11. ^ "Sam Powell Pepper". AFL Tables. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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