Brent Harvey

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Brent Harvey
Personal information
Full name Brent Harvey
Date of Birth May 14, 1978 (1978-05-14) (age 30)
Place of Birth
Recruited from Preston RSL
Draft 47th overall, 1995
North Melbourne
Height/Weight 172cm / 75kg
Position Centre
Club information
Current club North Melbourne
Number 29
Playing Career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1996- North Melbourne 250 (285)
State Team Honours2
Years Team Games (Goals)
1999, 2008 Flag of Victoria (Australia) Victoria 2 (3)
¹ Club statistics to end of HOF Game, 2008 season
² Representative statistics to end of {{{repstatsend}}}

Brent "Boomer" Harvey (born May 14, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer with the North Melbourne Football Club of the Australian Football League.

He has natural pace and a booming kick, and has been a solid midfielder for the Kangaroos over the years. Drafted by the Kangaroos in the second round of the 1995 AFL Draft, he found himself in a premiership side in 1999, following an E. J. Whitten Medal victory playing for Victoria in the State of Origin series. He won the Syd Barker Medal in 2003, as well as the Jim Stynes Medal in the International rules series.

While he had a poor year in 2004, he bounced back in 2005 to win All-Australian selection and the Syd Barker Medal.

A highlight of his 2003 season was against Carlton at the Telstra Dome in Round 22. Playing in his 150th game, Harvey received the ball, looked to handball to the right, then the left, then the right again then he went on to kick a goal and he celebrated by doing an imitation of shooting a slingshot in the Roos 124 point demolition.

He is the only Kangaroos player to have played every game at Manuka Oval during the Kangaroos' nine-year stint at the venue.

In 2007 Harvey polled 22 votes in the Brownlow Medal Vote, finishing equal second.

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North Melbourne Kangaroos squad – 1999 AFL Premiers (4th Title)
Preceded by
Adam Simpson		 North Melbourne Best and Fairest winner
2003		 Succeeded by
Brady Rawlings
Preceded by
Brady Rawlings		 North Melbourne Best and Fairest winner
2005		 Succeeded by
Brady Rawlings
Preceded by
Brady Rawlings		 North Melbourne Best and Fairest winner
2007		 Succeeded by
incumbent


North Melbourne Kangaroos Football Club – current squad

1 McIntosh • 2 Hay • 3 Rawlings • 4 Harris • 5 McConnell • 6 Grant • 7 Simpson • 8 Wells • 9 Sinclair • 10 Smith • 11 Archer • 12 Thomas • 13 Trotter • 14 Urch • 15 Green • 16 Brown • 17 Grima • 18 Moran • 19 Swallow • 20 Petrie • 21 Jones • 22 Goldstein • 23 Thompson • 24 Firrito • 25 Lower • 26 Hansen • 27 Edwards • 28 Riggio • 29 Harvey • 30 Pratt • 31 Hale • 32 Sansbury • 33 Hutchison* • 34 Urquhart • 35 Warren • 36 Watt • 37 Ross • 38 Gibson • 39 Harding • 40 Adams* • 41 Hughes* • 42 McMahon • 43 Campbell* • 44 Whyman • Coach: Laidley

* denotes Rookie Listed players
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2007 All-Australian Team
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Victorian Team - 2008 Hall of Fame Tribute Match
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