Another trophy for Blackwell

By Ken Casellas

Highly-decorated Claremont champion Luke Blackwell is still shining on the football field and he has just added another trophy to his bulging cabinet.

He was a shining light for Aberfeldie this year and he has won the Dick Reynolds Medal as the fairest-and-best player in the Essendon District Football League competition.

Blackwell, now 29 and a member of the Aberfeldie side which won the 2015 premiership --- the club’s first in 41 years --- retired from WAFL football at the end of the 2014 season after six superb seasons with the Tigers.

He made 114 league appearances for Claremont and bowed out as a true champion and one of the finest players in the history of the club.

A brilliant midfielder with exquisite skills, Blackwell was a star in Claremont’s premiership triumphs in 2011 and 2012. He was the captain of the 2011 side which beat Subiaco by 56 points in the grand final.

He won the E. B. Cook Medal as Claremont’s fairest-and-best player four times and won the Sandover Medal in 2011 after finishing third in 2009 and second in 2010. He had another outstanding season in 2014 and finished with 46 Sandover Medal votes to finish one vote behind West Perth wingman Aaron Black.