Past Dean Warren (1989)

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Dean Warren was a member of the inaugural Brisbane Bears training squad and was on the Bears Supplementary List in ’89.

 

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Won the 1987 QAFL Colt of the Year award and in the same year was equal runner-up with the great Gary Dempsey to Grogan Medalist Terry Simmonds. Went one better in ’93 when he shared the Grogan Medal with Daryl Bourke and Jason Cotter. Played 170 senior games with Wilston-Grange and Kedron-Grange in a career highlighted by Kedron-Grange B&F wins in 1992-93 and the club captaincy from 1992-95. He represented Queensland six times, including the Bi-Centennial Carnival in Adelaide in 1988, and was deputy vice-captain of the Maroons in 1994 before retiring in ’96.

 

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Three coast identities inducted into AFLQ hall of fame

Warren has also worked in football for 21 years – 14 in various game development roles in Queensland before moving to AFL headquarters in Melbourne in 2002 as National Youth Coordinator. Was promoted in ’04 to the role of National Participation Manager, responsible for the strategic growth and development of the game at all levels below the AFL competition.

Our huge congratulations are given to these three Sunshine Coast men (Bill Magin, Dean Warren and Don Smith) for their achievement in the game of AFL, within Queensland and recognition in the inaugural AFL Queensland Hall of Fame is just reward.

 

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Dean Warren appointed Brisbane Lions' general manager of football operations

THE BRISBANE Lions have appointed long-time AFL employee Dean Warren to the position of general manager of football operations.
Warren will begin working with the Lions on November 15.

Warren joins the Lions with an extensive background of football in the northern states. He has worked for the AFL for the past 22 years and held a number of positions in that time. Most recently, he was the League's national community and participation manager.

Lions chairman Angus Johnson believes Warren has all the attributes to be a success. "Dean has great experience in the AFL, both as an administrator and as the national community and participation manager for the past seven years," Johnson said. "This is an extremely important position and we are very confident that Dean will do a fantastic job."

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In paying a special tribute to his long-time staff member, David Matthews, AFL General Manager National and International Development, said Warren’s appointment was outstanding recognition of Warren’s achievements and his future potential.

“Dean has a long and distinguished record in developing and marketing the game having started as a Development Officer with the then QAFL in 1988,” said Matthews.

“He rose through the ranks of AFL QLD before being recruited to AFL Head Office as National Youth Coordinator in 2002 and subsequently being promoted to take on the leadership of all participation programs nationally. His leadership of the NAB AFL Auskick program in particular has been exceptional and has been a cornerstone of participation and fan development. Under Dean’s leadership our Auskick participation has grown from 123,400 to 168,000 and total participation has grown from 482,000 to 750,000 in the last six years, introducing generations of families to the game.

 

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If the running of the Auskick program is anything to go by we would appear to be in good hands.

 

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The Spirit of the Coast
Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Dean Warren, now the AFL’s national community development manager, had been part of that football niche since he arrived from Victoria’s western district aged 12 and settled with his family in Gympie, a country town 160km north of Brisbane. The town had one Australian Football and four rugby league clubs. “I had not even come across rugby league,” Warren says. “When the kids at school said at lunchtime, ‘Do you want to play footy?’ I thought that would be great. Then they started throwing the ball backwards and I thought, ‘What is going on here?’”

Warren need not have worried. Aged 17, he moved from his junior career with the Gympie Cats to Brisbane and played in the state league for Wilston Grange, which became Kedron Grange in 1990. By 1993 he had won a Grogan Medal. The next year Warren was skipper as the team lost to Morningside in the Grand Final, the two-point margin still causing him to wince. “It was a really good, strong competition,” he says of the state league back then.

 

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Cats join the Hall of Fame
Craig Warhurst
29th September 2010

THIRTEEN Gympie Cats have been inducted into the Sunshine Coast Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Dean Warren made his senior debut at 14 for the Cats and went on to represent Queensland at both senior and junior level. He won the prestigious Grogan medal in 1993 while playing for Kedron Grange and is now the national participation officer for the AFL.

Glenn Warren also made his senior debut for the Cats at 14 and has played a remarkable 500 games for the club. He has played in three premierships and is a life member.

Helen Warren, the beauty of Warren family, has been a 25-year volunteer for the club specialising in canteen work and fundraising.

Ray Warren has been on the committee for 30 years and played more than 200 games, retiring from the game at age 48. He was instrumental in building the clubhouse, mortgaging his own home to finance the project.

Members of the Gympie Cats football club inducted into the Sunshine Coast Australian Football Hall of Fame are (from left) Dean Warren, Roy Groom, Ned Piggott, Ray Warren, sons of John McMullen: Steve and Peter, Michael Crough, Helen Warren, Angus Nevin, Bob Baldry’s son Marty, and Glenn Warren.

 

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Warren said he would start work with the Lions on November 15 in what should be a hectic first week.
“I start the same week as the player draft, it should keep me pretty busy,” Warren said.
Warren will work side by side with coach Michael Voss.
“I will look after the club operations so Vossy can concentrate on coaching,” he said.
He said his responsibilities would include looking after the salary cap, recruiting and the day to day running of the team.
“It’s my job to ensure the Lions become a force again in the AFL,” Warren said.
Another one of Warren’s jobs will be to keep an eye on star players like Brendan Fevola.

Dean Warren pictured with wife Toni

 

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Can bet that last line about Fev isn't actually in his job description, but the jurno couldn't help but put it in.