Video Shout-Out from Mark Bickley

Mark Bickley is the Adelaide Football Club's only Premiership Captain, having led the Malcolm Blight coached team to back to back flags in 1997 and 1998.  

An Australian Football League Hall of Fame member, Bickley later returned to the Club as an Assistant Coach for six seasons.

An inspiring and articulate speaker and MC, Mark Bickley's stories of his experiences as a player, captain and coach are highly entertaining and filled with valuable messages about goal setting, teamwork and leadership.

ABOUT: 

Mark Bickley began his football life with Port Pirie club Solomontown before progressing to the South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide.

He was later recruited and made his AFL debut in 1991 as an inaugural member of the Adelaide Crows squad. Mark impressed many observers with his courage, strong tackling and excellent team sense. He was a mainstay in Adelaide's line-up from the club's inception in 1991 to 2003, racking up 272 games and captaining the team to both the 1997 and 1998 AFL premierships.

Following retirement from the game in 2003, he kicked off a career in broadcasting as a presenter with Nine News Adelaide and on nationally broadcast programs, The Footy Show and The Fox Footy Channel. Mark was a presenter on National Nine News and Postcards and gained extensive radio exposure on 5AA.

In 2009 he left broadcasting to return to football, this time as assistant coach of The Crows. In the same year, he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. During his playing career, he was selected in the Crows Team of the Decade for the first 10 years and awarded Best Team Man of the Decade. Mark was made a life member of the Crows in 1999.  More recently Mark was inducted into the Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame.

Mark has been Chairman of SA Great, an All Australian selector for the AFL, and is currently the Deputy Chair of the Adelaide Football Club Past Players Board. Currently, Mark works as a consultant providing Leadership, Resilience, Team Building and Emotional Intelligence workshops and mentoring.

Mark is an experienced MC as well as being a highly sort after keynote speaker.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• 272 AFL games                                             
• Adelaide Crows AFL Premiership Captain in 1997 & 1998                             
• AFL Hall of Fame                                                       
• AFL Life Member

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