Three New WAFC Life Members To Be Inducted

THE West Australian Football Commission is delighted to announce that Life Memberships will be awarded to long-serving football identities Ken Casellas, Brian Ciccotosto and Denis Marshall.

Each will be inducted at the WAFC Life Members’ Association Christmas Luncheon to be held on Tuesday December 3 at Patersons Stadium.

Induction to the WAFC Life Members’ Association is regarded as the WAFC’s highest level of recognition, distinct from life membership awarded by individual football clubs and associated bodies, and is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding overall contribution to football.

WAFC Chairman Frank Cooper said he was delighted that such worthy recipients would be bestowed the prestigious honour of WAFC Life Membership in 2013.

“They have all given a lifetime of service to football and their significant impact on the game makes them thoroughly deserving of this honour,” he said.

PROFILES

DENIS MARSHALL

• WA Football Hall of Fame Legend 2013
• Games: 285 – Claremont 175; Geelong 84; WA 18, Victoria 8
• League debut: Claremont, 1958 (aged 17)
• State debut for WA: 1959 (aged 18)
• Fairest-and-best awards: Claremont: 1959, 1961, 1963, 1970; Geelong: 1966
• Member of the 1961 WA carnival winning team (in best player list in each of WA's three
• games)
• Runner-up (19 votes) to Haydn Bunton Jr in 1962 Sandover Medal
• Runner-up (21 votes) to Bob Skilton in 1968 Brownlow Medal
• 22 State matches: 14 for WA and eight for Victoria. WA vice-captain in 1970
• All-Australian player in 1966
• Captain-coach of Claremont in 1969, 70 and 71
• Member of Geelong Hall of Fame
• Member of AFL Hall of Fame
• Australian Sporting Medal for services to football 2000

KEN CASELLAS

• The West Australian Newspaper 1954-59 & 1960-2001
• ABC Radio statistician 1987 – 2013
• First West Australian inducted to the MCG’s Media Hall of Fame (1999)
• Australian Sports Medal for sports journalism (2000)
• Dennis Cometti Award for Excellence over a Career (2013)
• Four-times WA Sports Writer of the Year Award winner
• Claremont Football Club member 1952 - present
• 9 years as Claremont Football Club board member
• 9 years as editor of ‘Tiger Talk’ magazine 

BRIAN CICCOTOSTO

• 50 years of service to South Fremantle Football Club as a player, coach and administrator
• 211 League games 1967- 1978, captain 1975-77
• 1970 Premiership player and Simpson Medal winner
• South Fremantle Best Clubman Award 1971
• 5 State Games, All-Australian 1972
• South Fremantle Life Membership 1977
• Coached back-to-back Colts Premierships 1984 & 1985
• South Fremantle Football Development officer 1985 – 1989
• Fremantle Hall of Legends 1988
• General Manager South Fremantle Football Club 1989 – 2005
• CEO South Fremantle Football Club 2005 – 2012
• South Fremantle Hall of Fame inaugural inductee 2011